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Terror and the Pakistan connection
It is a matter of great relief that the British security services have foiled the plans of a clearly `Islamicist' terrorist ring to blow up several aircraft over the Atlantic and cause unimaginable loss of life. The terrorist threat is alive and ...

Tackling chikungunya
The incidence of chikungunya, the debilitating though non-fatal illness, has reached epidemic proportions in at least eight States. The number of suspected cases is nearing a million, Karnataka being the worst affected with 5.7 lakh cases. But at ...

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Nuclear deal: why avoid sense of Parliament?
By Prakash Karat

Why is the UPA Government unwilling to have the nuclear deal discussed in Parliament so that a common viewpoint emerges which can be the sense of Parliament? What is clear is that the Government has begun to adjust our foreign policy to the strategic partnership.

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German townsfolk in fear of neo-Nazi rallying point
By Samuel Loewenberg

RESIDENTS in a small town in Lower Saxony are frantically trying to raise 3.4 million euros to buy an empty hotel before it is taken over by a rightwing organisation that reportedly plans to use it as a neo-Nazi rallying point. The ultra-right ...

Corrections and clarifications
Question 13 in the YW Quiz (Young World, August 11, 2006, page 4) was: "Who composed the Periya Thirumozhi , one of the key works of Vaishnavism?" The answer was: "Nammalwar (also known as Satagopan)". Readers point out that it should have ...

India, Pakistan need to move ahead
By Amit Baruah

The two neighbours have too much at stake to allow the peace process to drift further.

U.K.'s response to terrorism makes things worse
By Dan Plesch

What is needed now is an effective counter-terrorism strategy.

Lebanon the real victim
By Ahmad Samih Khalidi

The Franco-U.S. resolution is an absurdity: it would give Israel immunity while denying Lebanon the right to defend itself.

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