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A law unto themselves
Lawyers taking the law into their own hands is not a new phenomenon. With the judiciary often taking a sympathetic view of violations and excesses by members of the Bar, organised groups of lawyers have at times crossed the limits of law ...

Obsessions die hard
It is unfortunate that the Election Commission has been unable to put its old obsessions and irrational fears behind it. Its blanket ban on publishing results of exit polls and opinion polls from 48 hours before voting till the end of the ...

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School education: struggling to learn
By A. De, J. Drèze, M. Samson, and A.K. Shiva Kumar

There have been changes for the better in the schooling system over the last decade. But the quality of education remains abysmally low for a vast majority of Indian children and we must stop tolerating this.

News Analysis
U.K. government’s recipe for creating terrorists
By Seumas Milne

The U.K. government’s sins in the war on terror are catching up with it, but ministers want to shift blame on to the country’s Muslim community.

Armed with little but resolve, and defending a hollowed village
By Jeffrey Gettleman

In Congo, thousands of teenage boys are confronting a band of experienced killers.

Corruption blights reconstruction
By Clancy Chassay

Profiteering undermines Nato’s fight against Taliban; use of free market policies are to blame.

A who’s who of suspects in tax evasion
By Lynnley Browning

In the hush-hush world of Swiss banking, the unthinkable is happening.

Corrections and clarifications
* * The third paragraph of a report “DMK withdraws appeal against Jayalalithaa in Supreme Court” (February 19, 2009, page 1) was “The trial court in February 2000 sentenced the accused to one-year imprisonment. As a fallout ...

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