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Disciplining the faction leaders
Factionalism has been a major problem, over the past two decades, in the large Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and it is well known that the disunity starts at the top. The 18th Congress of the party held in Delhi in April ...

Time for final push
The United Liberation Front of Asom is hell-bent on intensifying its terror tactics in Assam. It has claimed 130 lives in the State since January. The chain of low-intensity blasts has generated a sense of insecurity and public anger. The ...

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Dealing with the agrarian crisis
By M.S. Swaminathan

The well-fed individuals in government bhavans should recognise agriculture as the backbone of the livelihood security system for 70 crore of our people and a basic requisite for national sovereignty.

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Craft, credulity, and reason
By Hamid Ansari

What direction will the U.S.-Iran dialogue, scheduled to begin on Monday, take?

Wall of steel for G8 summit
By Kate Connolly

Police in Germany are braced for the worst riots since the war when the world's leaders gather.

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Sense of propriety — in news and design
Perceptions differ, so also news values. The content of a newspaper evokes varying reactions among readers, depending on the angle from which one sees. At the other end of the chain, in the selection of a news item for inclusion in the paper, ...

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