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Sri Lankan denouement
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s victory in Sri Lanka’s presidential election has exceeded all expectations, including the most optimistic projections made within the President’s camp on the basis of hard-nosed pre-election opinion polls. ...

Uneven recovery
In the most recent update of its World Economic Outlook, the IMF is distinctly more upbeat on the prospects of the global economy than at any time during the past two crisis-ridden years. Economic recovery across the globe is faster than ...

Leader Page Articles

‘Crime fiction is about social inequality’
Ian Rankinin conversation withPrakash Karatabout the Rebus novels, new trends in crime fiction writing, politics in India, and more.

Insurgencies in Manipur: politics & ideology
By M.S. Prabhakara

The people of Manipur had ‘histories’ and ‘memories’ that were longer and deeper than those of most other Indians when India attained independence.

News Analysis
France: attack on the veil is a huge blunder
By Raphael Liogier

After more than six months straining to convince itself of the immense, nationwide danger of a phenomenon that involves fewer than 0.1 per cent of France’s Muslim population, a parliamentary committee yesterday recommended the banning of ...

Corrections and Clarifications
>>The seventh paragraph of a report “China elevates rank of envoy in New Delhi” (January 26, 2010) was “… Both Nirupama Rao (now Foreign Secretary) and her predecessor Nalin Suri (currently Indian High ...

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