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Editorials
Nature's fury in Leh
With the death toll in the flash flood in Ladakh up to 150 (and 500 people missing), and hundreds of houses destroyed, the magnitude of the havoc wrought by the natural calamity cannot be underestimated. The floods affected Leh town and the ...

A timely effort
If the number of species that live on land is not fully known, our knowledge of marine life diversity is much less. Even the scanty information available is not easily accessible. The Census of Marine Life (COML), a decade-long initiative ...

Leader Page Articles
Afghan problem: for a regional approach
By Chinmaya R. Gharekhan & Karl F. Inderfurth

If conditions can be created that would permit Afghanistan to revert to its traditional neutrality, it ought to help in significantly reducing tensions in the region.

Op-Ed
Rajiv Gandhi Plan: a valuable solution
Why India should take forward Rajiv Gandhi's action plan for a nuclear-weapons-free and non-violent world order.

Do nations need nuclear weapons?
If a nuclear war were to start today there will be no victor, no vanquished.

Doctor killed in Afghanistan not religious: family
The family of the British doctor shot dead by gunmen in Afghanistan on Sunday rejected the Taliban's claims that she was preaching Christianity to Muslims, saying she was not religious at all. Karen Woo, 36, a surgeon from London, was ...

Renewed diplomatic overtures to Iran
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, arguing that an orchestrated series of global sanctions has brought more economic pain than Iran's government anticipated, are making a renewed appeal to Iranian leaders to ...

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Fighting hunger: role of media and judiciary
Will the United Progressive Alliance Government take steps to put in place a universal public distribution system to provide food security to the people in a just and caring manner? Although there seems to be no direct governmental effort in ...




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