The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Thursday, December 06, 2007

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Opinion

Editorials
The Iran bombshell
Two years after escalating its confrontation with Iran over the nuclear issue, the United States has conceded that Tehran does not have a nuclear weapons programme today and has not had one since at least 2003. This assessment, contained in the ...

The challenges of fiscal discipline
The 13th Finance Commission, constituted recently with former Union Finance Secretary Vijay L. Kelkar as the chairman, has its work cut out. Mandated to suggest a reordered Centre-State financial regime for the five-year period, 2010-16, it ...

Leader Page Articles
Errors of the public health movement
By K.S. Jacob

News Analysis
STATECRAFT
Stake-holders and their opportunities
By Harish Khare

Climate change: action not despair
By George Monbiot

Corrections and clarifications
* * The last paragraph in a report “‘No change in DMK stand’” (December 5, 2007) was: “During her [Kanimozhi’s] maiden speech, Union Ministers T.T. Baalu and A. Raja were present in the ...

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