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Made in heaven and the registrar’s office
In February 2006, the Supreme Court had directed the Centre and the States to introduce a provision that would make the registration of marriages compulsory irrespective of religion. Yet, registration has been made compulsory only in five States; ...

Departure of Bush’s brain
Karl Rove went to Washington with the aim of ensuring that the Republicans would be in power for a long time to come. That dream lies shattered in the wake of the many disastrous blunders committed during the six-and-a-half-year term of United ...

Leader Page Articles

Lessons from the Haneef episode

By Vidya Subrahmaniam

News Analysis

Taking stock of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal
By Siddharth Varadarajan

Manmohan Singh needs to provide concrete assurances on the foreign policy front.

The solution to spam
By Andrew Brown

A death penalty for spammers? No, the solution is social change.

Is this the moment to buy shares?
By Nils Pratley

Plain common sense may be the best guide.

All about hedge funds
Hedge funds are investment vehicles that take big bets on a wide range of assets and specialise in sophisticated investment techniques. Some of these funds have made huge amounts of money for their investors in recent years. They are meant to ...

Corrections and clarifications
In an article “Growth, but still short of the goals” (“Independent India at 60”– special supplement, August 15, 2007), the caption of the accompanying Reuters photograph was: “Glossing over poverty: The ...

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Nuclear deal

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