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Unedifying behaviour
In the last week, the Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary conduct has plumbed new depths. The party has been behaving like a bad loser, disrupting Parliament with a gusto unbefitting the main Opposition party. It might have been possible to be ...

In a bind in Iraq
The plan most recently drawn up by the United States to stabilise the situation in Iraq seems to be coming apart before any headway could be made in its implementation. A little over a month ago the U.S. decided to withdraw troops from the ...

Leader Page Articles
Beirut: time for another requiem?
By Shail Mayaram

What is going to be the fallout of the most recent Israeli onslaught? A human tragedy. A colossal loss of a civilisational heritage.

News Analysis
Cost of Israel's disproportionate response
By Rabbi Dr. David J. Goldberg

The disproportionate response has increased Arab hatred, alienated the world, and brought criticism from many Jews.

Women re-enact march against apartheid
By David Beresford and Andrew Meldrum

IT WAS a seminal moment in the history of apartheid, a day on which 20,000 women risked arrest or worse by marching on Pretoria's Union Buildings, singing : "You have touched the women, Strijdom. You have struck a rock." On Wednesday, thousands ...

Corrections and clarifications
The caption of the standalone picture "Touch of warmth" (Chennai city, August 10, 2006, page 4) was: "An Emotional Moment: [Tamil Nadu] Governor Surjit Singh Barnala waits as a young girl from SOS Children's village ties `rakhi' on his wrist on ...

This impasse must be broken
By Harish Khare

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat should take the lead in resolving the standoff in Parliament.

A `final' note on credit
By P. Sainath

The announcement of fresh crop loans came late in the sowing season for Vidharbha. And, say the suicide notes of farmers, the talk at the top has not been matched by credit at the bottom. Meanwhile, the rain is adding to the devastation.

An ASEAN-India standoff
By P.S. Suryanarayana

The stalemate in the trade negotiations is a test of the political will on both sides for cooperation on all fronts.

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