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Sound democratic reforms
Pakistan's elected politicians have risen admirably above their zero-sum approach to forge a cross-party consensus on a set of constitutional reforms that hold the promise of strengthening democratic governance. The centrepiece of these ...

For love of water
The United Nations reminded all countries on March 22, World Water Day, that humanity continues to impose a staggering burden on rivers, lakes, and deltas each year in the form of pollution. What the UN has highlighted in its report titled ...

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Implications of registering, tracking, profiling
By Usha Ramanathan

Data collection, including fingerprinting, for the National Population Register has been launched alongside the 2011 Census exercise and under different statutes. This is no innocent data collection in a vacuum. Set amidst NATGRID and UID, it conjure s Orwellian images of Big Brother.

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Troop fatality figures show changing Maoist strategy
By Aman Sethi

Increasing security forces losses to gunfire suggest improvement in Maoist weaponry and ammunition.

An arc of political flux
By P. S. Suryanarayana

There is no overarching trend of transition towards any common set of norms of governance within state boundaries in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

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Discrimination helps perpetuate poverty
respect of health care, tribal folk are better placed than Dalits in northeasternStates. The survey has done a valuable service by demarcating two majoraspects of disparities among these social groups. Two major ...

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