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Stirring the Telangana pot
The decision of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief, K. Chandrasekhara Rao, and another party leader, A. Narendra, to resign from the Union Cabinet and pull out of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was inevitable. Since July 2005, when ...

Israel comes off second best
Israel's failure to crush Hizbollah has significant implications for the strategic situation in West Asia. In stopping the region's most powerful military in its tracks, the militia did something no Arab army has done in nearly 60 years. With ...

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Are Asians facing a witch-hunt in mid-air?
By Hasan Suroor

In recent weeks, a number of people of Asian or Arab origin have been forced off flights in Europe and America. What these cases illustrate goes far beyond legitimate policing and security precautions. This is vigilantism.

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The empire strikes back
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

Having failed to push through the amendment to the RTI Act, the Government is now attempting to bring it in through the backdoor.

The undiminished popularity of A.Q. Khan
By Nirupama Subramanian

For the people of Pakistan, neither the charges against the scientist nor his own confession matter. The belief that he single-handedly made the bomb is widespread.

Degeneration of modern nations into tribalism
By Hywel Williams

Colonial interference and Europe's failure to absorb minorities has led to a global decay of the state.

Corrections and Clarifications
The heading of the PTI report was "Railway officer goes into hiding to evade arrest" (August 19, 2006, page 1). The text stated that Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Railways) Ajay Verma had gone underground to evade arrest after a court ...

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