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Right decision
The Tamil Nadu government did the legally correct and politically wise thing in accepting the recommendation of the Prison Advisory Board against releasing Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case lodged in the Special ...

Lawless state
On March 9, during a visit by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, the Israeli government announced approval for the building of 1,600 new settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem. The timing was highly offensive, as Washington had only just ...

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REALITY CHECK
Your riot was worse than mine
When double standards take charge, it is the victims of communal violence who suffer, be they the Sikhs of Delhi, the Muslims of Gujarat or the Pandits of Kashmir.

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A damaging report
Those who were impatient with the Narmada Bachao Andolan's struggle must now re-examine their thinking in the light of the Second Interim Report of the Experts' Committee set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

Has the recession arrested crime?
After two long years of economic woes, the recession in the United States has managed to create a few unexpected benefits — namely a noticeable drop in crime — and confound a few economists and criminologists along the ...

Fatima Meer: academic and activist
Writer and formidable campaigner for human rights in South Africa.

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Corrections and Clarifications
A sentence in the first paragraph of “New START for nuclear-free world” (Editorial, March 29, 2010) was “It reinstates the U.S-Russian nuclear security regime that would have otherwise fallen apart after the 1991 Strategic ...

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