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Lessons from the tragedy
There are few tragedies more heart-rending than a major plane crash. The Hindu expresses its deep solidarity with the families of the 158 men, women, and children who died in India's worst aviation disaster in a decade. Preliminary reports ...

Heading for synthetic life?
A team of U.S. scientists has synthesised an entire bacterial genome and then produced living cells that relied on this genetic information. This was the first time a synthetic cell was made by starting with genetic data stored in a computer, ...

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A year of living indecisively
By Siddharth Varadarajan

The inability of the Prime Minister and the Congress president to push official policies in the direction of meaningful social change leaves the public confused.

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Rebooting India-Pakistan relations
It is important for both India and Pakistan to continue the positive movement in bilateral relations. They should rebuild mutual trust and resume dialogue.

Of constitutional ‘due process'
Two recent judgments of the Supreme Court of India highlight a paradigm shift in its approach to original constitutional norms.

New leader for Turkish party
Turkey's main opposition party elected a new leader on Saturday after a sex scandal earlier this month led to the abrupt resignation of his predecessor, who led the party for 18 years. With the selection of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a ...

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Ambedkar film: better late than never
In a significant intervention, the First Bench of the Madras High Court directed the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) on May 18 “to take all possible steps to release at an early date the Tamil version of its English film, ...

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