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A fiat Gujarat could have done without
Judicial activism, admirable on such occasions as when it comes to the rescue of ill-treated undertrials or bonded labour or child workers, at times turns problematical. The Gujarat High Court's order directing the police and other authorities to ...

Missing the April deadline
Members of the WTO who missed the April 30 deadline for arriving at the modalities for agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) have been exhorted by Secretary-General Pascal Lamy to have a "shared sense of urgency" and strive for an ...

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China — reaching out to the world
By Pallavi Aiyar

There is a global fascination now for all things Chinese. On its part, Beijing gives due importance to cultivating soft power.

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Resolving the Kargil conundrum
By Praveen Swami

Some coherent answers are clearly needed to the question of why troops were thinned at a time when India should have been enhancing its defences.

Jaduguda's hapless children
BBC presenterMark Whitakerexplores the dark side of India's nuclear programme. In this feature, he investigates the high number of children born with health problems and birth defects in the village of Jaduguda in Jharkhand and questions whether poll ution from a nearby uranium mine is to blame.

Corrections and clarifications
In "Cremation of Hitler's body ("Variety", "This Day That Age — From the pages of The Hindu dated May 1, 1956", May 1, 2006), a reader says there are errors in the sentence: "Otto Guensche, Adolf Hitler's Personal Adjutant, said in ...

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