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Dealing with communalisms
If last week the Bharatiya Janata Party, and sections of the media, reflexively overreacted to Rahul Gandhi's informal observations on the growth and consequences of Hindtuva extremism, the Congress at its 83rd plenary session at Burari in ...

Inexplicable delay
The Centre's foot-dragging on enacting a new law to give effect to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is inexplicable, considering especially that India was among the earliest to ratify it in 2007. First, the ...

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U.S. brings Silk Road to India
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

TAPI is in actuality a Silk Road project connecting Central Asia to the West via Gwadar, which will make Pakistan the U.S.'s gateway to Central Asia.

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We need peace in the Middle East, not just process
Two years after the 2008 Gaza conflict, there is now an opportunity to reassess the entire approach to the negotiations.

Australian foreign policy: looking West
‘To secure its future, Australia must look West as well as East. The profound changes in the region demand that we do so.'

American lobbyists work for Ivorian leader
As the United States continued to push for President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast to step down, two former Clinton administration officials were trying to present Mr. Gbagbo, who has clung to power despite international condemnation, in a ...

Computers that trade on the news
The number-crunchers on Wall Street are starting to crunch something else: the news. Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages — ...

Corrections and Clarifications
* * In the news report, “BJP's plan to expand NDA fails to take off” (December 22, 2010), there was a reference to Shiv Sena leader Anant Geeta. It should have been Anant Geete. * * The news report, “Rangarajapuram ...

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