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Operation Moshtarak
Since February 13, when they launched Operation Moshtarak (“Operation Together”), NATO and Afghan National Army forces have encountered fierce Taliban resistance in Marjah, a town of 80,000 people in the southwestern province of ...

Google and our digital future
Google's hopes of creating the world's largest digital library remain uncertain after a New York district court declared it needed more time to rule on this controversial project. Announced in 2004, the $200 million project began by scanning ...

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Humanising the Border Security Force
By R.K. Raghavan

A senior BSF officer's arrest in J&K for the killing of a youth poses new challenges. Officers and men need to be told that the government and the force would take care of them only as long as they are sensitive to human rights.

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Aceh: recasting rebels as forest rangers
By Peter Gelling

A government programme, called Aceh Green, aims to integrate former combatants into society.

Increasing pressure on journalists
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Iran's most prominent reformist daily paper, Etemaad, was closed along with two weekly publications, Irandokht and Sina, a week ago. Since the disputed election in June, Iran has shut eight newspapers and has imprisoned more than 100 ...

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Public health issues: need for more media concern
Wisdom has dawned at long last on the public health establishment of the country. Twenty-five months after stopping production on the orders of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, three prestigious vaccine manufacturing public ...

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