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Political feudalism
At a time of irreparable loss, the family of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy needs sympathy and support from the Congress party and the people of Andhra Pradesh. But what middle-level State leaders of the party have put on display in the hours following ...

Misplaced vaccine safety fears
Since its outbreak in April, the influenza A(H1N1) virus has spread to many countries and become the dominant influenza strain round the world. According to the World Health Organisation, the pandemic virus is expected to persist in the coming ...

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The Hurriyat’s moment of decision
By Praveen Swami

Will New Delhi’s latest attempt at an engagement with Kashmir’s secessionists prove more fortunate than its four earlier attempts?

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Iraqi Kurds long for home
Those uprooted in Iraq’s pre-2003 conflicts appear to have been forgotten or have simply fallen through the cracks.

Global warming is delaying ice age, says study
The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Scientists ...

Corrections and clarifications
The last paragraph of a report “[YSR] Fourth time unlucky” (Early editions, September 4, 2009) was “Another copter crash near Bangalore claimed the life of actor Soundarya. She was on her way to Karimnagar ...

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