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Editorials
Trade policy in difficult times
The new Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) for the period 2009-14 unveiled by Commerce Minister Anand Sharma on Thursday aims at continuing the thrust of the previous FTP. The new policy is, however, realistic enough to admit that the goals set five ...

Responsible property investment
The building sector has a big responsibility and role to play in combating global warming. In 2007, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report estimated that this sector, when it adopts suitable measures, can help reduce carbon ...

Leader Page Articles
Indian interests in regional security
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

India cannot remain impervious to the threat of spread of challenges from Afghanistan to neighbouring countries.

Op-Ed
Dalits, the poor and the NREGA
Before tinkering with the NREGA in the name of reforms, the government must ensure that the foundations of the scheme are strengthened. No change should be introduced without a rigorous debate that centrally involves its primary constituents.

Our drought came before yours
Across Andhra Pradesh, myriad little businesses have gone bust.

The enduring appeal of Laurel and Hardy
It is almost 100 years ago that a 20-year-old lad from the north west of England, called Arthur Stanley Jefferson boarded a ship bound for America with a comedy troupe. The troupe’s main attraction was a rising London-born music hall ...

News Analysis
Alexandria’s new library tries consumerism
By Jack Shenker

It was meant to be the library that recaptured the glories of Alexandria, providing a new home for the world’s knowledge almost 2,000 years after its predecessor was burned to the ground. But whereas the old Egyptian library ...

Corrections and clarifications
* The caption of the AP picture that went with a New York Times report “A champion of health care and peace” (“International page”, August 27, 2009) was “An Enduring Legacy: The Kennedy brothers, John F. ...

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