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More species in the red
The 2007 Red List of endangered plants, animals, birds, and sea life released by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) offers a gloomy forecast for many species that make the earth unique. If unrelenting pressure from human activity continues, ...

The wheat puzzle
Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has ruled out fresh wheat imports, citing the availability of enough stocks to meet domestic demand. There are however nagging questions over some aspects of the food policy with the shortfall in ...

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Rights activists: persecution and resistance
By Mukul Sharma

Harassment of human rights activists is so often part of their daily life that it goes unreported. Detention or abduction, disappearances and politically motivated imprisonment are used to intimidate them.

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Corrections and clarifications
A sentence in the eleventh paragraph of an article “Down the garden path” (Op-Ed, September 26, 2007) was: “If India wishes to be treated as a nuclear weapon state, despite the fact that it does not qualify as such according ...

EU should stand firm on Kosovo
By Jonathan Steele

It must not listen to those opposing the territory’s path to independence.

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We are going to take people back to the moon: Michael Griffin
Michael Griffin, Administrator, NASA, on moon landings, the missions to Mars, and the possible cooperation between India and the U.S.

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