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Making NAM more relevant
Since the end of the Cold War, it has become fashionable to question the relevance of nonalignment as a guiding principle for Indian foreign policy. True, nonalignment had a specific meaning at a time when the world was divided into competing ...

No room for complacency
The emergence of influenza A(H1N1) virus in humans was first detected in late April and within six weeks the swine flu spread to 74 countries, infecting nearly 30,000 and killing nearly 140 people. In the second week of June, the World Health ...

Leader Page Articles
Coping with the Honduran crisis
By Jorge Heine

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A dam and some critical questions
Mullaperiyar is a classic instance where the precautionary principle of action cannot wait for a public calamity to happen.

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Uttar Pradesh: feudal undercurrents
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

The Rita Joshi episode and its aftermath reflect poorly on our political class.

Swine flu: chaos over risks for women
By Karen McVeigh

The British government was forced into a clarification after issuing seemingly conflicting advice to pregnant women.

Roulette wheels fall silent in Russia
By Vladimir Radyuhin

While solving one problem, the sweeping ban on gambling has created new problems in Russia.

Amazon’s Big Brother move on Kindle
By Andrew Clark

Big Brother would have approved. The online bookseller Amazon has caused an uproar among literature lovers by abruptly deleting customers’ electronic copies of two of George Orwell’s classic totalitarian fables — 1984 and ...

Corrections and clarifications
It is (Jharkhand Governor) Mr. Syed Sibtey Razi and not Syed Sibte Razi as given in the caption of a standalone photograph “Honouring toppers” (North India, July 19, 2009). The heading of a report ...

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