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An unavoidable divorce
Marriages, at least modern ones, need the concurrence of both parties; but more often than not, divorces are forced by one of them. It was politically expedient in January 2006 for the Kumaraswamy-led legislators of the Janata Dal (Secular) in ...

Judiciary lets Pakistan down
By washing its hands of the petitions challenging President Pervez Musharraf’s eligibility to contest the October 6 presidential election while remaining army chief, Pakistan’s Supreme Court avoided a head-on collision with the ...

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Contempt power and some questions
By V.R. Krishna Iyer

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Revisiting Punjab’s secret search for peace
By Praveen Swami

Lethal injection review may halt executions in U.S.
By Suzanne Goldenberg

America, which has some 3,350 prisoners on death row, on Friday seemed to be moving towards an unofficial moratorium on executions after the Supreme Court granted a rare last-minute reprieve to a condemned man in Texas. The Court stay ...

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Turmoil in Myanmar

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Preferences and prejudices
Newspapers, in the classical definition, are purveyors of news and views. “All the news that is fit to print” and “Facts are sacred, comment is free” are antediluvian concepts now. Judgment and selection are the key to ...

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“Japanese energy security is dependent on the Indian Navy”

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