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Editorials
A flawed process
The absence of a consensus-building process within the United Progressive Alliance is evident from the manner in which the decision to divest 10 per cent stake in the profit-making Neyveli Lignite Corporation was taken by the Central Government. ...

The jatropha opportunity
It is self-evident that biofuels hold out the promise of significantly easing the impact of the ongoing oil crisis. They can lighten the energy burden on economies and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, besides bringing down carbon emission ...

Leader Page Articles
Avoiding an unequal social bargain
By M.S. Swaminathan

Grass-roots democratic institutions need to be revitalised and involved in managing food and water security systems.

News Analysis
Meeting ground in the mountains
By Amit Baruah

Hordes of officials and journalists descend on the Nathu La Pass, which is to be officially opened for border trade on Thursday.

OUT OF LONDON
A "peacekeeping" mission goes wrong
By Hasan Suroor

Britain's post-9/11 campaign in Afghanistan, meant to be a largely peaceful one, is turning into a full-scale war.

Only a U.N.-led process can halt the Iraq catastrophe
By Menzies Campbell

The British Government cannot justify the continuing presence of its troops unless it shows it has learned from its failures.

Return of mining raises hope in Congo
By Rory Carroll

THERE is little to break the silence at Kolwezi, once the economic powerhouse of Congo, now a landscape of industrial desolation. Potholed roads lead to ruined, rusted factories. Trucks and bulldozers are lined up neatly, as if ready to roll, but ...

Corrections and clarifications
* * The sentence in "A journey to remember across China" (Op-Ed, July 3, 2006) was "At every stop on the first leg of the journey [on the Beijing-Lhasa train] — Shijiazhang the grimy capital of Henan, Xian the home to the famous Terracotta ...

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