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Iraqi realities
The spate of murderous attacks in cities across the whole of Iraq over the last 10 days has taken the August 2010 death toll to 535, with nearly 400 wounded. This exceeds the July total of 500 deaths; the authorities attribute the bombings to ...

Understanding leopards
As the most abundant of the big cats of India, the leopard generally manages quite well, living quite close to habitations unobtrusively. A recent study in the Pune region recorded a density of 12 adult leopards in a 100 sq km, human-dominated ...

Leader Page Articles
Food security — by definition
By P. Sainath

Maharashtra ended famine forever by passing an Act that deleted the word ‘famine' from all laws of the State.

News Analysis
What is in a name?
By Anbumani Ramadoss

Caste names are an impediment to social justice and holistic development.

A new world map and Brazil's foreign policy
By Celso Amorim

It has a role in a new framework as the world may no longer be an exclusive club.

Last chance to fix flawed torture Bill
By Siddharth Varadarajan

The draft law excludes many scenarios and forms of torture rampant in India. The Rajya Sabha must insist on amendments.

Corrections and clarifications
The Page 1 promo on Mother Teresa (August 26, 2010, some editions) misspelled remembrance as rememberance. Some paragraphs were found shuffled in the International Page report, “Incumbents victorious in primaries” (August 26, ...

Save Moscow forest, Medvedev urged
Ruling United Russia party members have urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to examine a proposal to construct a new Moscow-St. Petersburg highway across the Khimki Forest, the Russian media has reported. “We have asked ...

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