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Editorials
ACT DECISIVELY ON HOSTAGE ISSUE
NEW DELHI MUST do whatever is necessary to secure the release of three Indian workers taken hostage by the Iraqi resistance as they are likely to be killed if the demands of their captors are not met. The resistance has demanded that India and ...

PROMOTING SCIENCE
IN A REPORT titled "Inventing A Better Future," the InterAcademy Council, a grouping of the world's science academies, observes that "in a world moving rapidly toward the knowledge-based economies of the 21st century," capacity building in ...

Leader Page Articles
LAW AND SOCIETY
Ex gratia justice
By Rajeev Dhavan

Our legal system individuates claims. Mass disasters become a collection of individual cases. India needs a `mass tort' law.

Poor economy threatens Berlusconi
By Sophie Arie

Many Italians voted for Silvio Berlusconi because they believed he could replicate his personal success for the economy as a whole. The long-awaited upturn has yet to materialise.

News Analysis
ROOF OF THE WORLD
Yarlung Tsangpo to Brahmaputra
By Amit Baruah

LHASA (TIBET), JULY 22. It is a roundabout route that we have taken to Lhasa, roof of the world and capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. I am part of a group of Indian journalists invited by the Chinese Government to visit Lhasa and other ...

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