Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, May 07, 2009
ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version
Google



Opinion
News Update

News
ePaper
Front Page
National
States:
• Tamil Nadu
• Andhra Pradesh
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• New Delhi
• Other States
International
Opinion
Business
Sport
Miscellaneous
• Cartoons
Engagements

Sudoku
Today's Headlines


RSS Feeds


Specials
In Focus
Photo Gallery
Events 2008
Know Your English

Features:
Magazine
Literary Review
Open Page
Metro Plus
Business
Education Plus
Book Review
Young World
SciTech
NXg
Friday Review
Cinema Plus
Quest
Property Plus

Stocks
Quotes
SE Diary

Advts
Retail Plus
Classifieds
Jobs
Obituary

Archives
Yesterday's Issue
Datewise

Google

Group Sites
The Hindu
The Hindu ePaper
Business Line
Business Line ePaper
Sportstar
Frontline
Publications
eBooks
Images
Ergo

Home

Editorials
Giving tigers another chance
The 17 States in India that host populations of the tiger must do an urgent reality check on the effectiveness of conservation initiatives, now that the National Tiger Conservation Authority has declared the status of the big cat as “not ...

Lure of foreign lands
The International Food Policy Research Institute’s call to regulate the acquisition of land overseas — meant to shore up food supplies and meet the rising demand for biofuels in the wake of the earlier global spike in prices of ...

Leader Page Articles
REALITY CHECK
India’s Nepal policy in disarray
By Siddharth Varadarajan

By going along with the undemocratic machinations of the Nepal army brass, New Delhi is undermining the peace and stability it helped to bring about in South Asia’s newest republic.

News Analysis
The attributes of the ‘third electoral system’
By Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar

Triggered by the decline of the Congress in the 1990s, the third electoral system — marked among other things by a proliferation of parties and a democratic upsurgein political participation — continues to shape politics at the State and national levels.

Africa’s expectations from Obama
By Hany Besada and Erica Dybenko

The U.S. cannot afford to continue confining Africa to the realm of its lowest priorities.

Corrections and Clarifications
In “Congress slip-ups give BJP a chance” (“Elections 2009” page, May 6, 2009), the voting percentage figures in the accompanying graphic should have been Congress 54.81% and BJP 40.67%. The figures were reversed in ...

Letters to the Editor





Read Today's supplements: Metro Plus | Sci Tech | NXg |

Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com
Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address

Yesterday's
Opinion Page



News: ePaper | Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous | Today's Headlines | Features: Magazine | Literary Review | Metro Plus | Open Page | Education Plus | Book Review | Business | SciTech | NXg | Friday Review | Cinema Plus | Young World | Property Plus | Quest |
Advts:
Retail Plus | Classifieds | Jobs | Obituary | Updates: Breaking News |

The Hindu Group: Home | About Us | Copyright | Archives | Contacts | Subscription
Group Sites: The Hindu | The Hindu ePaper | Business Line | Business Line ePaper | Sportstar | Frontline | Publications | eBooks | Images | Ergo | Home |

Copyright © 2009, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu