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Held to ransom
Unceasing bedlam has once again caused a session of Parliament to end without being able to conduct important business. A Parliament such as India’s, complete with arguments, protests, and walkouts, may be regarded as the inevitable ...

Rafsanjani back on centre stage
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s opponents have discovered over the years that it is possible to keep him down but not out. The man who was head of state between 1989 and 1997 and suffered major defeats in presidential as well as ...

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STATECRAFT
One decision and seven considerations statecraft
By Harish Khare

News Analysis

Where a wrong turn can mean death
By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

The role of village courts in earlier times
By R. Nagaswamy

‘Coping with misconduct in Indian science’: a response
I wish to respond to a few points in the recent article “Coping with misconduct in Indian science” by Divya Gandhi ( The Hindu , September 4). First of all this was not meant to be a “free for all,” ...

The calendar is 7 years behind in Ethiopia
By Xan Rice

Daniel Hailu promised to marry his girlfriend after the millennium. And now she eagerly awaits the arrival of her wedding ring. “She is so relieved that 1999 is nearly over,” said Mr. Hailu. Mr. Hailu is not living in a time warp, ...

Corrections and clarifications
A reader said that the photograph in the page 1 promo “Solar plane’s record” (Early editions, September 11, 2007) was not that of the solar plane. The story, which was a detailed graphic used in the ...

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