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A glass half full
As Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kumari Mayawati completes a year at the head of the State’s first majority government in 16 years, an intriguing question arises: by what yardstick is she best judged? For sheer political instinct, the ...

From slow poison to instant killer
If liquor is a slow poison, then illicit liquor is an instant killer. At least 48 people lost their lives in the border districts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu after consuming an illicit brew suspected to contain methanol-mixed industrial ...

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To invoke or not to invoke R2P in Burma
By Ramesh Thakur

To the extent that R2P is rooted in solidarity with victims of atrocity crimes, the sophistry of the distinction between a lakh killed by troops or through deliberate government neglect is morally repugnant.

News Analysis
How to shut up boring people
By Charlie Brooker

When you are in close proximity to boring people, they cross the line from dreary to irksome.

Reluctant Turks prepare for smoking ban
By Robert Tait

For decades the tobacco haze filling Turkey’s bars, restaurants and workplaces has been as much a feature of the country’s cultural landscape as the stunning architecture of its mosques and historical buildings. But now ...

Corrections and clarifications
The caption of the accompanying photograph in a report “In and out of militancy in Reasi hills” (North India, May 19, 2008) was “Tackling Terror: Residents of the militancy-infested Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir being ...

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‘Nuclear deal will have little effect on broad framework of bilateral ties’
India has in many ways captured the imagination of America, saysDavid Mulford




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