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Useful despite limitations
The annual supplement to the five-year Foreign Trade Policy (2004-09), unveiled on Friday, like its predecessor, was not expected to break new ground in policy initiatives. However, as Commerce Minister Kamal Nath points out, there is still a ...

A beacon for the oppressed
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has taken on the world's major oil companies by increasing the government's stakes in the country's petroleum assets. Foreign-owned multinationals were set a March 31 deadline to comply with new rules under which ...

Leader Page Articles
Mass leadership and backroom politics
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

The Congress will do well to look at the BJP, which has begun to experience the consequences of ignoring its mass leaders.

News Analysis
The knight versus the professor
By Vaiju Naravane

The choice for the Italian electorate on Sunday is between the incumbent Prime Minister's flamboyance and the challenger's dignified approach.

South Asia should unite behind one of its own
By Ramesh Thakur

Why doesn't India support the candidature of Jayantha Dhanapala for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations?

A bus service going nowhere?
By B. Muralidhar Reddy

The Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service seems to have been virtually grounded by the complicated documentation process and the attitude of the intelligence agencies.

Corrections and clarifications
In "Fukuyama's take on Islam and Islamists" (Editorial page, April 6, 2006), the reference to "quoting the devil on the scriptures" has a reader protesting over the "mixed-up idiom". The proverb of course is "the devil can quote scripture for his ...

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Shocking proposal

Insurmountable

Continuing impasse

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