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A welcome review
The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Hyderabad and Bangalore last week for an interaction with the top echelons of the two State governments over programme implementation and development issues in their States accords with an evolving, ...

Giving lip like this is not cricket
Sledging, as many cricket fans know, originated in Australia where the game is played hard. But what precisely is the word origin of ‘sledging’? According to Ian Chappell, who should know, the term originated in Adelaide in the early ...

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REALITY CHECK
Insulating India’s reactors from fuel disruption reality check
By Siddharth Varadarajan

In the tussle between test and text, what will be decisive is the political resolve to defend the sovereign rights enshrined inthe 123 agreement.

News Analysis

Disasters of distorted urban development
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

The garbage crisis in Kochi and some lessons.

Iran and the prospects of Armageddon
By Abbas Edalat and Mehrnaz Shahabi

The logic that defends past nuclear atrocities is now used to supporta strike against Iran

Row as 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton tours U.S.
By Xan Rice

There is a high risk of damage to the fossil, warn scientists.

Standing up for public interest
By George Monbiot

What began as an environmental demonstration has now also become a protest for democracy.

Corrections and clarifications
A sentence in a report “P&G forays into skin care” (“Business” page, August 5, 2007) was: “The U.S.-based FMCG firm Procter and Gamble (P&G) on Saturday announced its foray into the Rs. ...

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