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A difficult choice
It is not surprising that the expert panel headed by Kirit Parikh on the pricing of petroleum products should recommend total decontrol of the retail prices of petrol and diesel while suggesting a more gradual approach in the case of kerosene ...

Facing up to Gaza truths
On February 2, Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister and a former Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) chief of staff, stated that unless Israel made peace with the Palestinians, it would lose its Jewish majority or become an apartheid state. ...

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Pakistan: vindication on Afghanistan, assertive with India
By Nirupama Subramanian

There is confidence in Islamabad that its new importance to international interests in the region can be leveraged to secure its own interests vis-a-vis India.

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Southeast Asia’s new focus on India, China
By P. S. Suryanarayana

Evocative, against a newly researched historical trail of India inSoutheast Asia, is the call for a “new rationale, new passion” in the equation between New Delhi and Beijing.

Orphanages of Haiti offer bleak portrait
By Ginger Thompson

The earthquake intensified the problems of poverty and ineffectual government.

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