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The merger brooks no delay
Plans to merge the two national carriers — Air India and Indian (Airlines) — have been talked about for quite a few years now, without any concrete follow up measures. Now Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has announced the setting ...

France's shifting political landscape
The French Socialist Party's resort to American-style primaries for the April 2007 presidential election, complete with televised debates among the three leading contenders for the party nomination, raises the question whether the French ...

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Reservation and the creamy layer
By Kalpana Kannabiran

The concept of creamy layer obfuscates the fact of caste discrimination within institutions of education, employment, and justice.

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The challenge of food security in India
By GianPietro Bordignon

India is a poignant example of how food sufficiency at the aggregate level has not translated into food security at the household level. The revised thrust of the World Food Programme will be to bring the hungry, malnourished, and vulnerable within t he ambit of human development.

OUT OF LONDON

The message behind the burqa row
By Hasan Suroor

For British Muslims, clearly, an ill wind is heading their way.

Corrections and clarifications
A reader objected to the heading "Army personnel, ISI agent held" (Earlier editions, October 23, 2006, page 1). "Personnel" is a plural noun and the text referred to a single soldier, the reader added. It was an error. The heading was ...

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SC on reservation

A paradox

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