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An unpleasant surprise
It came as no surprise when the Third Front, not wanting to offer support to the presidential candidates of either the United Progressive Alliance or the National Democratic Alliance, sought to make a virtue of its predicament by proposing a ...

Sharing bird flu samples
Member-states of the World Health Organisation have at last consented to address the question of putting in place an equitable arrangement for sharing bird flu samples and benefits of research. Indonesia, the country worst hit by the H5N1 virus, ...

Leader Page Articles
Why are child malnutrition levels not improving?
By A.K. Shiva Kumar

India’s tardy performance can be traced to the limited progress in providing basic health care.

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OUT OF LONDON
Why this fuss?
By Hasan Suroor

Forget Sir Salman’s politics. He put modern South Asian writing in English on the world map.

Corrections and clarifications
>>In a report “NDA to back Kalam if he contests” (June 22, 2007, page 1), the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) was incorrectly referred to as the United Nationalist Progressive Alliance. >>In an ...

The lows of the Presidential contest
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

The debate on the relative merits of candidates has been uninformed and partisan, bordering on the abusive on occasion.

“IAEA might not cope in atomic crisis”
By Julian Borger

Nuclear watchdog is under-funded and no longer has reliable equipment to detect covert nuclear activity, claims Mohamed ElBaradei.

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