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Editorials
POTA and phone taps
THE PROSECUTION'S CASE in the December 13 Parliament attack case — the first case under POTA that reached the trial stage — has received a huge and embarrassing jolt. The Delhi High Court's ruling that intercepted phone calls cannot ...
CoP out in New Delhi
THE EIGHTH MEETING of the Conference of Parties (COP-8) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that will conclude in New Delhi today has heard many speeches with little commitment on concrete action to arrest global warming. ...


Leader Page Articles
The Gujarat reference
By Rajeev Dhavan

Despite the BJP's efforts, the Election Commission emerged as the pivotal and unscathed pillar of Indian democracy. But its discretion has been rightly disciplined by the Supreme Court.
Writing textbooks
By Amrik Singh

The ideal person to write for schoolchildren is a schoolteacher... Every textbook must be evaluated by a group of experienced teachers before it is prescribed and reviewed after it has been in use for a while.


News Analysis
Climate change and sustainable development
By Jurgen Trittin

The world has been a series of extreme weather events over this year. Droughts have been occurring in India and the United States, hurricanes have hit Central America and severe floods emerged in China as well as in Europe. These extreme ...
A dangerous trend
By Kuldip Nayar

If I recall correctly it was the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's telephone call to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi's immediate predecessor that nipped in the bud the proposed conversion bill for the State. Mr. Vajpayee was ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Do not judge him
  • Interlinking rivers
  • The conversion issue
  • Populist schemes
  • The Sethu project

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