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Don’t defer J&K election (13 October 12:00) |
| Last week Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travelled to Jammu and Kashmir to inaugurate two development projects that will help shape the State’s future — the Qazigund-Rajvansher railway li... |
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Ban that brooks no delay (13 October 12:00) |
| Given the atrocities perpetrated with impunity by state forces, it is a moral imperative that the negotiations — scheduled to resume at the United Nations this month — on a comprehensive... |
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Why a war against Iran is not inevitable (13 October 12:00) |
| While a decision on war has apparently been kept on hold, it is entirely possible that it could be waged at a later date. Only a fundamental shift in position, by either Tehran or Washington... |
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Only Iraq thrives in world slump (13 October 12:00) |
| The Baghdad bourse is booming. Hotels and banks were the hottest picks among the exchange’s 95 listed companies. |
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Classroom capers: going a bit too far? (13 October 12:00) |
| Campaigners say that while sexual abuse of minor pupils certainly warrants criminal prosecution, there is need to take a more liberal view of a consensual relationship. |
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Soyuz lifts off on space station voyage (13 October 12:00) |
| A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station. The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer gam... |
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Act decisively (13 October 12:00) |
| We write to express our anguish and outrage at the continuing brutalities visited upon Christian communities and places of worship in Orissa and Karnataka, and elsewhere in India, as well as... |
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Rule of law (13 October 12:00) |
| This is with reference to the article “For a resurrection of the rule of law”(October 11) by V.R.Krishna Iyer. The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal is too serious a matter to be left to the UPA go... |
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Why this fire fighting? (13 October 12:00) |
| This refers to the successive measures announced by the Reserve Bank of India at the instance of the Finance Ministry in response to the cry of the market forces to meet the “liquidity cru... |
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TDP and Telangana (13 October 12:00) |
| The editorial “Political gamble” (October 11) has clearly brought the irony of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti’s attempts to align itself with the Telugu Desam Party given the latter’s ... |
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Power shutdown (13 October 12:00) |
| For centuries non-whites could not walk on the pavements in South Africa. It occurred only to Gandhiji that all men being equal he must fight non-violently to win the right. One of the basic... |
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Noble but thankless, with no glory or praise (13 October 12:00) |
| How the newsroom in U.S. newspapers is changing was the subject of a study published in these columns on August 18 and September 1, 2008. The survey by the Project for Excellence in Journali... |
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Political gamble (11 October 12:00) |
| Similarities in policies and programmes are known to bring political parties together in an electoral alliance. However, as is evident in the case of the Telugu Desam Party now, the prospect... |
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Post-Cold War era over, but not U.S. primacy (11 October 12:00) |
| Even while American dominance may have come to an end, American pre-eminence is likely to endure for some time yet. |
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For a resurrection of the rule of law (11 October 12:00) |
| The context for, and transformative rationale of, a law reforms commission. |
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123 flaws (11 October 12:00) |
| As opined by Siddharth Varadarajan (October 10), the interpretations of the Bush administration, expressed on various occasions, lack clarity and create confusion in the minds of the people.... |
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Dear Prime Minister… (11 October 12:00) |
| This letter is in response to the fictional letter (October 10) by Harish Khare. Considering the economic situation of the day and myriad other problems that exist in our society, the articl... |
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Batla House shootout (11 October 12:00) |
| It was heartening to read Praveen Swami’s analysis of the Jamia Nagar shootout (October 10). Newspapers and commentators, trying to be too politically correct, have been spewing a lot of n... |
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Exit polls (11 October 12:00) |
| The government’s decision to ban exit polls is a step in the right direction as this exercise only impedes fair and free elections and serves no useful purpose. Publication of exit poll re... |
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Lost opportunity (11 October 12:00) |
| The West Bengal government has lost an opportunity to keep a prestigious project, thanks to dirty politics. K.G. Balachandran, Edappally * * * It speaks volumes of the sagacity of ... |
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Spreading contagion (10 October 12:00) |
| The modified $700 billion bailout package, approved last week by the United States Congress after some initial hiccups, seemed to have faded into the background by Monday. The initiative has... |
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Surprise element (10 October 12:00) |
| The award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to the two French scientists who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, and to the German who discovered ... |
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Bush signing statement on 123 leaves flaws intact reality check (10 October 12:00) |
| President endorses fuel assurances, but U.S. interpretation of agreement is unchanged. |
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Singapore and the ‘Global Indian’ brand (10 October 12:00) |
| A thematic show on economic issues of interest to India and its friends in the Asia-Pacific region, notably Singapore as the lead partner. |
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‘Dear Prime Minister … create a new national mood’ (10 October 12:00) |
| In this fictional letter written with the 15th general election in view, Sonia Gandhi asks Manmohan Singh to assert himself and concentrate on key internal tasks — above all, protecting th... |
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Behind the Batla House shootout (10 October 12:00) |
| Charges that the Jamia Nagar encounter was fake belong in the Wonderland. |
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Home for Nano (10 October 12:00) |
| Ratan Tata has done the wise thing, moving his small car plant to Sanand in Gujarat. Had he remained undecided whether or not to continue at Singur, he would have surely faced serious pro... |
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Sourav’s decision (10 October 12:00) |
| Sourav Ganguly’s move to retire from international cricket after the four-Test series against Australia, though belated, is welcome. As a player who was slow in responding to the demands... |
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Bush signing statement on 123 leaves flaws intact (10 October 12:00) |
| President endorses fuel assurances, but U.S. interpretation of agreement is unchanged. |
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Unabated tensions (08 October 12:00) |
| The deplorable incidents of arson and killing in Udalguri district of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and the adjacent Darrang district over the past week, in which more than 40 peopl... |
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Obama surges ahead (08 October 12:00) |
| With the financial crisis deepening in the United States and globally, the American presidential contest has become even more intriguing and interesting. The economic crisis has helped Barac... |
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Are American writers too insular for Nobel? (08 October 12:00) |
| By saying American writers are too insular and the American literary establishment is parochial, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy has kicked up a controversy. |
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Corrections & Clarifications (08 October 12:00) |
| It is the policy of The Hindu to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please specify the edition (place of publication), date and page. The Readers’ Editor’s office can be ... |
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Robbing the poor to pay the rich (08 October 12:00) |
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Becoming your child’s emotional coach (08 October 12:00) |
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Matter of concern (08 October 12:00) |
| This refers to the busting of an Indian Mujahideen terror module and arrest of 15 terror suspects in Mumbai, Pune and Mangalore. It is a matter of great concern that Mohammed Mansoor Asghar... |
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Zardari's remarks (08 October 12:00) |
| President Asif Ali Zaradri's observation that India is not a "threat" to his country and that militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir are "terrorists" is the first of its kind by a top Paki... |
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Violence in Orissa (08 October 12:00) |
| I wish to congratulate The Hindu on its coverage of the persecution of Christians in Orissa. We should hang our heads in shame over the happenings in the State. It is sad that the media in g... |
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Coping with the crisis (07 October 12:00) |
| In what is perhaps the most critical phase yet in the present financial sector crisis, the government and the regulators in India have managed to assuage investors’ concerns at least for n... |
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Labour pains (07 October 12:00) |
| The British Labour Party appears to have been pulled back from the brink with Prime Minister Gordon Brown making a spirited speech at the annual party conference in Manchester on September 2... |
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Of bailouts, public sell-outs and media cop outs (07 October 12:00) |
| The economic crisis continues to redraw the political landscape. Barring dramatic and damaging developments, it undermines the importance of the presidential debates. |
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Economic orthodoxy was built on superstition (07 October 12:00) |
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New charges on shipping could help climate (07 October 12:00) |
| Billions of dollars could be raised to help the poorest countries cope with and tackle climate change under proposals to be floated in London this week for new charges on international shipp... |
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China’s manned space programme marches ahead (07 October 12:00) |
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Singur aftermath (07 October 12:00) |
| This refers to the editorial “Coalition of the irresponsibles” (Oct. 6). A time-bound solution was needed to address the Singur imbroglio, which arose due to a blend of political compul... |
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Coalition of the irresponsibles (06 October 12:00) |
| The decision by Tata Motors to move the Nano small car project out of West Bengal is a setback for development policy in the State, one for which the Trinamool Congress as well as the politi... |
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Credit worthy local bodies (06 October 12:00) |
| As a part of the exercise to measure the financial efficiency and to move the urban local bodies towards an era of debt-financing development projects, the Ministry of Urban Development init... |
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Coming to terms with resurgent Taliban (06 October 12:00) |
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Here the hedge fund managers live (06 October 12:00) |
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