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Image and reality in Kashmir
Early this week, President Asif Ali Zardari promised legislators in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir that he would honour his father-in-law’s promise to wage “a thousand year war” to seize territory claimed by the country ...

Autonomy for Maharatnas
The government’s decision to allow greater operational and financial freedom to the public sector companies that qualify as ‘Maharatnas’ — a new category that will have higher performance criteria than applicable to the ...

Leader Page Articles
Future of India-Bangladesh relations
By Haroon Habib

The domestic context in Bangladesh of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s major visit to India starting on Sunday.

Op-Ed
Conduct worthy of a police state
The peremptory deportation of a Nepali student from India and the unlawful detention of a tribal woman shot by the police in Chhattisgarh raise troubling questions about the power of our ‘national security’ apparatus.

Yemen’s controversial cleric may face arrest
U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki had met the man accused of the attempted Christmas Day airliner bombing and was linked to the Fort Hood shooter.

Coral reefs give birth to rich sea life
New research overturns ideas that coral sea life originated elsewhere.

News Analysis
Corrections and Clarifications
>>The fourth paragraph of the report, “Honouring a multi-faceted personality” (Sport, January 8, 2010), referred to K. Ponmudi as Tamil Minister for Higher Education. It should have been Tamil ...

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