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Inner-party manoeuvres
The changes effected by Rajnath Singh in the Bharatiya Janata Party have the appearance of a shake-up — with no less than Narendra Modi dropped from the party's highest decision-making bodies, the Parliamentary Board and the Central ...

Europe's far-right consolidates
The first-ever consolidation in the European Parliament of far-right fringe parties into a single formation — Identity, Sovereignty and Tradition — sends out a political message to the two biggest constituent blocs in the legislature, ...

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Jammu and Kashmir: the death of a cause
By Praveen Swami

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has candidly acknowledged that the Islamist rebellion of 1989 has failed. The APHC chairman should now join in an inclusive, multi-party dialogue to marginalise terrorism.

News Analysis
Bush's change on climate is illusory
By George Monbiot

GEORGE W. Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what's new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the United States now insists that we find ways to block some ...

Corrections and Clarifications
A report "EPF Board, Centre should decide: Yechury" (January 29, 2007) stated that it was the 25th year of the Battle of Plassey. It should have been the 250th year. A sentence in "Cricket fans lap up the first full game at ...

Davos 2007: losers feel threatened, winners too are discomfited
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

The Indian mood alternated between happiness and dread. For the West, it was an unusual feeling — to have to applaud China and India from the sidelines, and accept that its long reign could be coming to an end. Is globalisation a double-edged weapon?

The reshuffle in the BJP and the message
By Neena Vyas

The move is a clear signal that no leader, howsoever powerful, is above the party.

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