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The hunted turns hunter
For an opposition party, the Congress is in a strange situation in Kerala: the party is more on the defensive than on the attack. After five years in power, the Left Democratic Front led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has ...

Liz Taylor: art and allure
Ask young people what they remember of Elizabeth Taylor and the answer is likely to be in the form of a furrowed brow. But there is little doubt they would have heard of her. That is how she left us, more a creature of the public consciousness ...

Leader Page Articles
On political space and coalitions
By K.S. Jacob

The number of coalition partners in political formations is inversely proportional to the availability of political space for diversity and dissent within political parties.

Op-Ed
THE INDIA CABLES

India, U.S. differed on timing of ban on JuD
CHENNAI: The United States was dismayed when India moved a proposal for a U.N. Security Council designation of the Jamat-ud-Dawa as a terrorist organisation, concerned that this would stymie its own efforts to push through a “more ...

MEA presents its War on Terror credentials to U.S.
India allied with Nato countries in voting against resolution on Guantanamo prisoners

Together and apart in Sri Lanka
India-U.S. military cooperation was excellent in tsunami relief but concerns varied on rebuilding of Palaly airfield

Indian support for UN resolution on Israel angered U.S.

‘Few in UPA concerned about the plight of dalits'
CHENNAI: “While the UPA has focused on bettering the lot of the Dalit community, it is dominated by upper caste Hindus, very few of whom are genuinely concerned about the plight of dalits,” the American Embassy said in a cable sent ...

News Analysis
Corrections and clarifications
The first paragraph of the front-page report “No cash was given for votes: Manmohan” (March 24, 2011) said “… no one from the Congress or the government had indulged in any lawful act as alleged in a U.S. Embassy ...

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