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Missile defence a long way off
The boffins of India’s missile programme have good reason to be satisfied. In a test carried out on December 6, a new, fully solid interceptor missile developed at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully ...

Bloodied but determined
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez negated the accusation that he has a dictatorial mindset when he accepted with good grace the defeat in a referendum on constitutional reforms. A proposal to do away with the term limit for the head of ...

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Afraid of text and democracy
By Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

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Behind the sparkle in Gujarat
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OUT OF LONDON
Oxford liberals stumped by free speech
By Hasan Suroor

Oxford Union’s reputation for pushing the frontiers of free speech rests largely — some say solely — on one brave moment 74 years ago. In 1933, defying the heavily charged nationalistic mood, it famously (or infamously, ...

French parents back smacking
By Emilie Boyer King

Most French children are used to the odd spank from their parents, and many think there is nothing wrong with that, a new survey suggests. An Internet poll by the Paris-based Union of Families in Europe (UFE), an organisation which defends ...

Corrections and clarifications
* * The third paragraph in a report “Fertilizer outlets’ licences suspended” (Tamil Nadu edition – Madurai, December 6, 2007, page 3) was: “Official sources said that the suspension of licence was in accordance ...

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