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Editorials
Enforcing the rule strictly
It is a well-settled principle of law that the presence of a conflict of interest — actual or potential — is sufficient to disqualify judges from participating in legal proceedings. The rule against bias emerges from the maxim ...

Hyping science
When a two-decade-long search for an effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection has been a failure, the pressure to hype and provide spin to make results of a trial look successful increases. More so as only two trials have managed to reach ...

Leader Page Articles
In Kashmir, the price of peace isn’t right
By Praveen Swami

Kashmir’s secessionists want something New Delhi doesn’t have — and at a price it can’t afford.

News Analysis
Indian disorder and English precision
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

Indiscipline may be an Indian hallmark but, as the Queen’s welcome to President Pratibha Patil suggests, it makes business sense to court India.

Australia puts its refugee problem on a remote island
By Norimitsu Onishi

Regardless of how close a boat may have gotten to the mainland, the Australian authorities steer it to Christmas Island which remained uninhabited until about a century ago.

Ivory Coast: toxic waste victims’ money frozen
By David Leigh

Lawyers say that money may simply disappear.

Corrections and clarifications
* * The first paragraph of a report “One year after, Maoists still rule the roost” (November 3, 2009) was “It was exactly this Monday a year ago when a landmine blast, triggered by Maoists targeting West Bengal Chief ...

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