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Stifling democratic discussion
National discussion and debate on so crucial a matter of public concern as the entry of the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau into Alang for dismantling have been sought to be stilled by a Supreme Court gag order of far-reaching ...

A progressive direction
The Supreme Court's direction on Tuesday to the Centre and the States to enact legislation to make the registration of marriages compulsory irrespective of religion is a breakthrough. It will aid the dismantling of the unhealthy social edifices ...

Leader Page Articles
What's love got to do with any of this?
By Kalpana Sharma

Those who speak of morality and the corrupting influences of Valentine's Day seem to have no problem with the real corruption of consumerism gone out of control.

News Analysis
Vidharbha suicides: a scenario of post-mortems 24x7
By P. Sainath

Post-mortem registers at some centres in Vidharbha show poisoning cases outnumber all other cases put together. Meanwhile, farm suicides are up sharply after November and spreading to the paddy belt. A study also shows that in districts such as Amra vati, the suicide mortality rate for male farmers in 2004 was 10 times the national average for all males.

Once liberal Denmark has lurched to the far Right
By Kiku Day

DENMARK HAS at last managed to catch the world's eye, after so many years of failing to get credit for being at the cutting edge of liberalism. But the inelegant handling of the controversy over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed is the result ...

English threat to U.K.?
By Matthew Taylor

THE GLOBAL dominance of English, which has brought economic and cultural benefit to Britain for the past 100 years, now poses a major threat to the U.K.'s international standing, according to research published on Wednesday. The study ...

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