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Political crisis defused
Positive statements made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in interactions at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit against early elections and in favour of reconciling divergent standpoints in a coalition ...

Elections but new themes
The context in Gujarat in 2007 is certainly different from that of 2002 and Chief Minister Narendra Modi is doing his best to shift the emphasis from his earlier image as a Hindutva icon to one as an earnest economic reformer. As the State ...

Leader Page Articles
The ways of the Canadian bureaucracy
By Ramesh Thakur

The goal of rules framed and administered by civil servants should be to facilitate and enable agreed tasks. But too many take it as their mission to frustrate and obstruct.

News Analysis
Seeking an arc of stability in West Asia
By Atul Aneja

Iran, Syria, and Turkey, by deepening their ties in the energy sector, are working towards establishing a semi-independent zone of stability.

Diana inquest — a simple waste of money
By Simon Jenkins

The world knows what happened and does not need a jury.

Climate change: where science and politics collide
By Mark Lynas

A few errors in Al Gore’s film should not undermine the thrust of his message.

Corrections and clarifications
The sixth paragraph of an article “Waiting for Benazir Bhutto” (Op-Ed, October 12, 2007) was: “Writing in The Nation , Hussain Haqqani said the cases against Ms. Bhutto had been hanging over her head ...

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