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Banks and muscle power
It is not the first time that the Supreme Court has come down heavily on commercial banks and financial institutions that employ musclemen to recover their debts. In February 2007, it passed severe strictures against some banks whose loan ...

Undercutting the Taliban
There is little chance that the Taliban’s elusive leader Mullah Omar will accept the conditions for talks outlined by Afghanistan’s President Ahmed Karzai in a recent interview. Acceptance of constitutional rule and disowning of ...

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STATECRAFT
Indian Muslims and their linkages
By Harish Khare

The Muslim community appears to have seen through the global jihadis’ game plan. It is distancing itself from the vendors of terror.

News Analysis

Genuine American hero vs. man of destiny
By Ramesh Thakur

The contrasts, not just in the colour of their skin but also in age, freshness, vitality and energy, will be cruelly clear every time Barack Obama and John McCain share a stage.

Breeding intolerance will delay development
By Kalpana Sharma

By endorsing a narrow, partisan agenda, the Congress and the NCP are reinforcing intolerance and violence that can only harm the future of Maharashtra.

In Balochistan, democracy remobilises nationalists
By Nirupama Subramanian

A three-year military operation in the province has left a huge trust deficit, along with hundreds killed, jailed and missing.

Corrections and clarifications
In an article “Karnataka: the BJP victory in perspective” (Op-Ed, June 2, 2008), an entry in one of the two accompanying tables titled “Performance of major parties in 2004 and 2008” gave the number of seats the ...

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Unwarranted hike

Politics of oil

Tackling shortage

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