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Editorials
It’s payback time for Raje
Sometimes, politics is the art of procrastination. When Vasundhara Raje’s government set up the Justice Jas Raj Chopra Committee six months ago to study the Gujjar demand for inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) list, it was buying sorely ...

Planning for equitable growth
With the National Development Council approving the Eleventh Plan, the stage is set for the Planning Commission to draw up the annual State plans in consultation with the State governments. The plan which was earlier cleared by the Cabinet ...

Leader Page Articles
Explaining Prabakaran’s persistent defiance
By V. Suryanarayan

Was the LTTE supremo’s latest Heroes Day speech an illustration of characteristic defiance or an expression of a significantly weakened situation on the ground and increasing international isolation? Can there be a political way out of the vici ous cycle?

News Analysis
Now, Iraqis are taking back the streets
By Michael Howard

Attacks on civilians decline as Shias join Sunnis in neighbourhood patrols to tackle militants and reunite communities.

The U.N. vote on the death penalty
By Louise Arbour

The U.N. has taken a significant step towards abolition of the abhorrent practice.

Statistics, lies, and a lazy media out of london
By Hasan Suroor

Britain’s Statistics Commission’s claim that more than 80 per cent of British jobs over the past decade have gone to “foreigners” shows how misleading statistics can be, especially when the media are too lazy to ask hard quest ions.

Corrections and clarifications
The heading of a New York Times report (“International” page, December 20, 2007) was “U.S. Senate adds $70 b. for Iran, Afghan wars”. It should have been “U.S. Senate adds $70 b. for
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