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Market imperfections
The birth of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the first big-bucks cricket league featuring international cricketers, appeared inevitable in the light of last year’s events. The setting up of a rival organisation, the Indian Cricket League, ...

Deepening crisis
Signals from the United States point to a bleaker economic scenario than what was projected till recently. In what is seen as a significant statement on the true state of the economy, the country’s two top economic policy makers, Federal ...

Leader Page Articles
From Kosovo in 1999 to Iraq in 2003
By Ramesh Thakur

NATO succeeded in 1999 in diverting attention from Rambouillet to the humanitarian liberation argument; Tony Blair and George Bush failed to shift the chief justification from WMD to humanitarian outcomes in the case of Iraq.

News Analysis
Contrasting fates of a journalist and a warlord
By Conor Foley

A journalist’s plight, contrasted with the swagger of a warlord, says a lot about Afghanistan.

Cross-border deal to protect gorillas
By Xan Rice

Only 720 mountain gorillas remain in the wild, all of them in the misty hills of central Africa.

Corrections and clarifications
>>The caption of the accompanying photograph in a report “Dhoni gets the highest price at IPL [Indian Premier League] auction” (“Sport”, February 21, 2008) was: “Stars at the Auction: Franchise owners
The one and only Fidel
By K. Natwar Singh

One of history’s originals, Fidel Castro is a genuine friend of India. He is not just a very great man. He is a phenomenon.

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