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Sharif can return
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has come to the defence of democratic principles once again by ruling that Nawaz Sharif has every right, as a citizen, to return to his country. In doing so, the court rejected the Musharraf regime’s bizarre ...

Conflict over divisions
Kerala and Tamil Nadu are again at loggerheads, this time over the bifurcation of a railway division. The move to split the Palakkad (Kerala) division of Southern Railway, and create a new one with headquarters in Salem (Tamil Nadu) has fuelled a ...

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Sino-Indian trade: growing concern
By Pallavi Aiyar

A ballooning trade deficit with China means that grey clouds are threatening to mar the sunshine that India-China trade has been spreading in its wake thus far.

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The highest feat of diplomacy
By M. Veerappa Moily

It is India’s growing international standing and economic significance that has made the United States and the western world acknowledge its place on the world stage as a nuclear power.

Coming: television’s iPod moment
By Bobbie Johnson

Godfather of the Net predicts the end of TV as we know it.

Friendship by numbers
By Indra Adnan

Social networking has turned relationships that were easy to distinguish into one amorphous web.

Corrections and clarifications
A sentence in the fourth paragraph of an article by Prakash Karat, “Why the CPI(M) and the Left oppose the nuclear deal” (Editorial page, August 20, 2007) was: “Prior to the joint statement of July 2005, the UPA ...

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