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Beware of partisan temptations
When the stakes are high, neither considerations of political propriety nor arguments of constitutional validity have deterred the United Progressive Alliance government, and before it the National Democratic Alliance government, from seeking to ...

Small cars, big opportunities
Some significant trends are transforming the passenger car industry worldwide, and India seems to be well placed to take advantage of them. Global car production is expected to double to 110 million units, with some 180 new production facilities ...

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REALITY CHECK
This has nothing to do with energy
By Siddharth Varadarajan

Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns' recent article is a reminder of America's onerous "strategic partnership" agenda for India: defence sales, interoperability of forces followed by joint missions, isolating Iran, and helping to prise Central As ia away from Russian influence.

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Policies that could cost millions of lives
By George Monbiot

RICH NATIONS seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But as soon as you understand the numbers, the words form ...

Corrections and Clarifications
* It is the Chitradurga Schist Belt and not the Chitradurga Cyst Belt. A report "An ideal terrain for geologists" (Karnataka, April 27, 2007, page 10) — on a 450-km long and 15-km wide belt, which runs from Mysore to Gadag district ...

We need to talk about narcoanalysis
By Sriram Lakshman

Narcoanalysis is steadily being mainstreamed into investigations, court hearings, and laboratories in India. However, it raises serious scientific, legal, and ethical questions. These need to be addressed urgently before the practice spreads further.

Missile shield hosts ask U.S.: what's in it for us?
By Ian Traynor

The Poles want Patriot missiles, the Czechs seek legal guarantees.

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