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Resilience amidst a few worries
Balance of payments data for 2006-07 released recently by the RBI show that certain broad trends in evidence over the recent past have become more pronounced. The merchandise trade deficit has widened to $64.9 billion from $51.8 billion in ...

Making road safety work
The Supreme Court’s suggestion to the Centre to provide for enhanced punishment for rash or negligent driving will be welcomed by thousands of families who have lost their kin in horrific traffic accidents. The punishment for causing death ...

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Where does the Palestinian cause stand?
By Hamid Ansari

The difficulty lies in the unilateralist, rejectionist, approach of Israel and in the neocon ambition of reshaping West Asia. However, notwithstanding internecine conflict, the Palestinians will survive; so will their quest for statehood.

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Migration and development
By Ban Ki-moon

Migration can be an enormous force for good. We need to start a rational conversation on how to better manage our shared interests.

Sarkozy is not quite Napoleon
By Agnes Poirier

Nicolas Sarkozy isn’t like Bonaparte but resembles his bling nephew — and that’s not good news for France.

Hope for the alien hunters
By Johnjoe McFadden

The location of a newly discovered planet is good news in the long search for extraterrestrials.

The unaccountable few
By Larry Elliott

Adam Smith argued for free trade and self-interest, but not this kind of capitalism.

Corrections and clarifications
In the popular column “Know Your English” (“Book Review” page, July 10, 2007), a question was “Is there a sentence that includes all 26 letters of the alphabet?” The answer was “The quick brown fox ...

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