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Editorials
Protecting islands of excellence
The proposal of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development to extend reservations to the other backward classes (OBCs) in Central educational institutions, including the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of ...

Will it or won't it?
If a ceasefire is meant to be permanent, it should be properly termed a cessation of hostilities. By declaring a "permanent ceasefire," the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) has used an intriguing, perhaps deliberately ...

Leader Page Articles
Congress and coalition realpolitik
By Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

The outcome of the Assembly elections may have no direct impact on the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre, but the emerging situation has accentuated the pressure on the Congress.

News Analysis
A trip to talk it out on trade
By Pallavi Aiyar

China's President Hu Jintao is to visit the United States next week. A number of economic and trade related disputes are on the table.

OUT OF LONDON
U.K. journal sparks trans-Atlantic spat
By Hasan Suroor

The controversy over an essay on U.S. foreign policy by two American academics in theLondon Review of Booksshows that free speech remains a tricky issue not only for traditional faith groups but also for the enlightened elite.

Corrections and clarifications
A reader from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (reading The Hindu's online edition), and a reader from Bangalore have both pointed out that the reference to the state-of-the art U.S. made SSBN Typhoon-class nuclear submarine is incorrect (Newscape, ...

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Q&A - VAIKO
`Pragmatism, not opportunism'
The firebrand politician and orator from Kallingipatti, in southern Tamil Nadu, has raised another storm this time by shifting his alliance from the DMK to the AIADMK. In this interview with S. Vijay Kumar, in Karur recently, Vaiko not only ...




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