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Unwarranted resolution
In voting for the further tightening of international sanctions against Iran despite the satisfactory resolution of all concrete issues surrounding its previous nuclear activities, the United Nations Security Council has wilfully and ...

Consolidation of banks
Two recent unconnected developments have brought into sharp focus the issue of bank consolidation in India. Trade unions of all government-owned banks and a few private banks had issued a strike call to protest, among others, against the merger ...

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REALITY CHECK
The U.N. is escalating the Iran nuclear crisis
By Siddharth Varadarajan

If the Security Council were truly concerned about Iran’s nuclear programme, it would have lifted sanctions in the light of the IAEA’s latest report and thereby secured Iranian adherence to the Additional Protocol.

News Analysis
China: towards political and administrative reform
By Pallavi Aiyar

In the spotlight at the National People’s Congress is a series of personnel changes and proposals for streamlining the administration which, if approved, will lead to the most significant restructuring in a decade.

BBC launches Arabic service
By Ian Black

Some believe the BBC has come too late to the party in the Middle East and will struggle to make inroads against its well-resourced rivals.

Corrections and clarifications
Kapil Sibal is Minister (Cabinet) for Science and Technology and not Minister of State as mentioned in the text and photo caption (“Kapil Sibal seeks area in seafront for national ocean technology institute,” March 4, 2008). ...

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