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An assault on free speech
The Department of Telecommunications' action in blocking access to 17 websites and web logs on the Internet has resulted in an avoidable mess for the Government of India and raised questions about its commitment to free speech. What was ...

Under the judicial scanner
There was no mistaking the mood of the Supreme Court during the hearing of the public interest litigation challenging the controversial Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006. While giving the Centre a week to reply to the petitions, the apex ...

Leader Page Articles
West Asian crisis — winners and losers
By Chinmaya R. Gharekhan

The whole area will be even more radicalised than it was before the eruption of the crisis. The biggest losers are the innocent men, women, and children who are the victims of the conflict.

News Analysis
Tackling terror on the tracks
By V. Jayanth

Railway security is a complex issue that often derails on the knotty question of jurisdiction.

Labour no more cheap in factory of the world
By Pallavi Aiyar

The shortages China is experiencing in migrant workers coupled with its rapidly greying demographic profile constitute a challenge to the sustainability of its current economic model.

A protracted colonial war
By Tariq Ali

IN HIS last interview — after the 1967 six-day war — the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel, said: "To justify or condone Israel's wars against the ...

London shooting inquiry prolongs family's pain
By Harriet Wistrich & Asad Rehman

THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes has waited almost a year to find out that no officer will be charged in relation to his shooting. How can someone have been killed so deliberately and no individual be held accountable? Some say the ...

Corrections and clarifications
* The sentence in "No timeframe for solving issues on CST phase out: Chidambaram" (Tamil Nadu, July 17, 2006) was: "The country had been exporting 1,000 tonnes of yellow metal [gold] per annum he said and pointed out that the price was ...

Rush for oil is the real challenge facing Antarctica
By Ben Sandilands

As if melting icecaps aren't a big enough worry, the political temperature is starting to rise over the continent's resources.

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