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Peace and the burning train
The heart-rending scenes of charred bodies and twisted metal in two coaches of the Pakistan-bound Samjhauta Express are gory testimony to yet another major terrorist strike in India. The horrifying twin bomb explosions when the train was near ...

Combating corruption
The Administrative Reforms Commission's recommendation that the Constitution be amended to provide for a Rashtriya Lok Ayukta draws attention to an issue raised intermittently only to be quickly forgotten — the need for a national ombudsman ...

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REALITY CHECK
Keep the peace process on track
By Siddharth Varadarajan

For the third time in less than a year, terrorists have attempted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan. Handing them a victory is the last thing we should do.

News Analysis
Behind the bombing of the train of love
By Praveen Swami

Pakistan's jihadi press holds out clues to what the motives of the terrorists who attacked the Samjhauta Express might have been.

Putin goes calling on the Saudis
By Atul Aneja

Will the region become another battleground between Moscow and Washington?

Corrections and Clarifications
In "[Chennai] Police heave a sigh of relief" (Chennai city edition, February 19, 2007, page 4), a report on the local body elections in the city, the NCP was incorrectly referred to as the National Congress Party. It should have been the ...

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