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Getting serious about power
The Central Government has held forth enough on penalties and pulling up States for non-performance in the arena of power sector reforms. It is time for it to act. It has signed a series of agreements with the States on a package of centrally ...

Junta in a time warp
Myanmar's military junta has done the expected unexpected. At a time when international pressure was mounting on the Burmese generals to release Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, they extended her detention by another year. ...

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A Government and a party in combat mode
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

Two years after Sonia Gandhi famously declined the crown, the man to whom she handed power remains the outsider in a party congenitally attached to the first family and unable and unwilling to accept the work division between a non-Gandhi Prime Mini ster and a Gandhi party chief.

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In praise of Citizen Kannagi
By Eric Miller

Kannagi proved that even a non-native with no money and no family in sight can fight City Hall and win her case — that is inspiring.

India as a rising global player
By P.S. Suryanarayana

Interest in India was evident at the recent Asia Security Conference in Singapore.

Earth at the tipping point
By Robin McKie

STRANGE DAYS have reached Ny-Alesund, Europe's northernmost research station. Located in Svalbard, Norway, a mere 1,000 km from the North Pole, the centre's scientists have been experiencing increasingly unpredictable weather. The archipelago ...

How stem cells can turn back biological clock
By Ian Sample

The discovery of an ingredient that gives stem cells the power to grow into any tissue in the human body paves the way for radical changes.

Corrections and clarifications
The sentence in "U.S. envoy warns of violent backlash" ("International", June 9, 2006) was: "Of 198 deputies present in the 275-seat Assembly, 182 voted for Mr. Bolani while 142 supported Mr. Jassim, the Speaker said." The reference was to how ...

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