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Ms. Patil and the Presidency
Sometimes, the best political decisions are arrived by stitching together a compromise. The surprise nomination of Pratibha Devisingh Patil as the Presidential candidate of the United Progressive Alliance and the Left parties was preceded by ...

A shattered dream
The Palestinians find themselves in a situation quite similar to what they were in before Israel grabbed their territories in the 1967 war. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are politically separated and the dream of a united sovereign state has ...

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Nuclear weapon-free world — a mirage?
By M.R. Srinivasan

There are some new portends of a revival of the cold war era arms race. India should propose an updated version of the Rajiv Gandhi Plan, focussing on a no-first-use commitment by all states possessing nuclear weapons and a comprehensive test ban.

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Why India should cut carbon emissions
By K. Venugopal

It is simply a matter of raising energy efficiency.

Little to celebrate at the birth of `Hamastan'
By Ian Black

The blow to the Palestinians is especially grave because for decades it was thought they would never descend to civil strife.

Corrections and Clarifications
* The sixth paragraph in a report "How the President is elected" (June 14, 2007) gave the formula for determining the quota for a candidate to be declared in the Presidential election as: "For example, assuming the total value of valid votes ...

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