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Slow but steady progress
The recent summit meeting between the Presidents of North and South Korea did not generate the excitement that the first such encounter did seven years ago. However, in setting and attaining realistic goals, the two leaders have pushed the ...

Using groundwater wisely
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently told the first Congress on Groundwater organised by the Ministry of Water Resources that subsidised access to water for economic and commercial purposes can no longer be sustained. The rising levels of water ...

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The Muslim question in Gujarat
By Vidya Subrahmaniam

By an unspoken consensus, Muslims have been excluded from the election debate in Gujarat.

News Analysis
Is the nuclear power option safe for India?
By M.R. Srinivasan

The country is well equipped, both in terms of regulatory mechanisms and manpower, to exploit nuclear power safely and efficiently.

Obama has not lived up to his early promise
By Michael Tomasky

Hillary Clinton’s young rival for the Democrats’ presidential nomination needs to get back to being different.

Italy resorts to telethon to protect antiquities
By Tom Kington

Opera singers, actors, and conductors enlisted to plead for cash.

Corrections and clarifications
A number of readers point out that in a report “Troops cut not possible: Kapoor” (October 7, 2007), the Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Deepak Kapoor, was incorrectly referred to as Lt. Gen Deepak Kapoor (in four instances). The ...

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