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Yet more Iraq lies
The combination of bizarrely implausible factors that led to the United States-led and United Kingdom-backed invasion of Iraq in March 2003 has been exposed yet again by one of its own proponents. The Iraq-born former chemical engineer Alwan ...

Monetise cross-LoC trade
It is more than two years since India and Pakistan inaugurated trade across the Line of Control that divides Jammu & Kashmir. In this time, the increase in the trade, indeed its survival through the tensions between the two countries after ...

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Hard questions about soft questions
By P. Sainath

There was in fact a successful auction of spectrum — only it was not conducted by the government but by its corporate sector cronies who made a fortune on the deal.

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High oil prices jangle nerves
Energy experts are especially worried about the growing disturbances in West Asia.

Hiding details of dubious deal, U.S. invokes national security
Dennis Montgomery is at the centre of a tale that features terrorism scares, secret White House briefings and fantastic-sounding computer technology.

Cosmic census finds a crowd of planets
Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical — at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. At least 500 million of those planets are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold ...

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