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Adjusting to ground realities
With the GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL) commencing its operations from March 23, another milestone has been reached in the evolution of the civil aviation sector. After the experiment at Kochi, where a consortium of Non-Resident ...

Trouble in Basra
The Iraqi security forces, raised and trained by the United States in the post-Ba’ath period, appear to be failing in their first major mission. A three day-assault by these forces on the Mahdi army, the militant followers of the firebrand ...

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Look back in anger: the five-year folly in Iraq
By Ramesh Thakur

The Iraq War has curtailed civil liberties, hardened sectarian divides, eroded America’s moral standing and made the world less safe.

News Analysis
A range of issues and imperatives in the higher education sector
By V.C. Kulandai Swamy

The report of the National Knowledge Commission on higher education makes several important recommendations, and after due review they should be implemented in a mission mode for a much-needed revolution.

Hillary Clinton and embroidered memories
By Mark Lawson

Hillary Clinton has admitted she ‘misspoke’ on Bosnia, but in her admission she uttered a truth that she is someone pretending to have far more governmental experience than she has.

Corrections and clarifications
In a report “UP babus split, Neera Yadav ‘removed’” (North India, March 28, 2008, page 5), the second paragraph was “At a hastily convened meeting held at the Civil Services Institute here, a ‘group’ ...

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