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Open the A 9, with safeguards
To the disappointment of everyone except chauvinists on both sides, the Geneva-II talks between the Sri Lanka Government and the LTTE broke down on the A 9 highway. Taking the high ground on the issue, the latter held the talks hostage to the ...

A hopelessly lost cause
For a lame-duck Prime Minister desperately in search of a respectable legacy, Tuesday's vote in the House of Commons on a cross-party motion demanding a thorough inquiry into Iraq invasion and its aftermath could not have come at a more awkward ...

Leader Page Articles
Peoples' experiments in politics
By Mukul Sharma

The proposed India Social Forum in Delhi from November 9 to 13 marks an initiative to further advance the movement against neo-liberal globalisation, sectarian politics, casteism, patriarchy, and militarisation.

News Analysis

North Korea and a new nuclear order
By P.S. Suryanarayana

Pyongyang's October 9 action may turn out to be the first step towards a "multi-polar nuclear world."

OUT OF LONDON
Academics as spies to combat terror?
By Hasan Suroor

The British Government has been accused of trying to co-opt university teachers into "collaborating" with security outfits in combating terror.

Law-abiding, yet treated as criminals
By Henry Porter

Guilty until proven innocent now seems to be the watchword of the British Government.

Corrections and clarifications
In "Fall in maternal mortality" ("Newscape" page, November 1, 2006), it was stated that Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) declined "to 58 per lakh live births from 80 per lakh live births". A few readers point out that it should have been "to 58 per ...

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