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Pulled up short
Barack Obama will not be mistaken if he thinks that fate is treating him in the same way it dealt with the squirrel in Ice Age, the cartoon movie. Every time he gets his claw tips on the acorn, an irresistible force yanks him back. ...

Welcome relief
The Home Office in the United Kingdom has now made it clear to worried migrant professionals that it will not appeal against a court ruling halting the implementation of changes to the immigration rules that could have forced several of them to ...

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Reading the Afghan equations correctly
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

India’s priority should be to insulate national security from the negative fallout of the U.S-led war, while remaining focussed on Afghan reconstruction.

News Analysis

A friendship train back on the rails after four decades
By Haroon Habib

Under an agreement between India and Bangladesh, two trains will initially run on the Dhaka-Kolkata route every Saturday and Sunday.

New cricket, old nationalism
By Harish Khare

The Indian Premier League threatens to undermine the traditional cricket’s role as a generator of all-India emotions and sentiments.

Corrections and clarifications
In an article “A perspective on law reforms” (Op-Ed, April 17, 2008), the ninth paragraph was “Nehru’s historic words are apt here: ‘Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall ...

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