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A dramatic change
Uttar Pradesh-2009 has turned out to be an extraordinary story, marked by high drama and reversal of fortunes. The Bahujan Samaj Party went into the election as the front runner but emerged bruised and mauled from the month-long, five-phase ...

Misleading on drug safety
The spectre of Vioxx, the blockbuster non-steroidal anti inflammatory drug (NSAID), continues to haunt pharmaceutical giant Merck even five years after the drug was withdrawn from the market due to its cardiovascular risk. The latest scandal ...

Leader Page Articles
A human rights checklist for India
By K.S. Jacob

Many of the current policies and practices “authorised” by the Indian state require careful review from a human rights perspective.

News Analysis
For him no sacrifice was too great for the objective of Eelam
By Tom Farrell

Prabakaran had successfully transformed the Tigers from an archetypal guerilla outfit into a conventional army. But this may ultimately have proved to be his downfall.

OUT OF LONDON
Fiddling expenses: a case of kettle calling the pot black?
By Hasan Suroor

There’s an apocryphal story about a BBC reporter who routinely claimed expenses for “entertaining” a “Polish diplomatic source” with a tongue-twisting name. After it had gone on for sometime, the BBC made inquiries ...

How large is world’s digital content?
By Richard Wray

Internet data heads for 500 bn gigabytes

Corrections and clarifications
It is the policy of The Hindu to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please specify the edition (place of publication), date and page. The truck-bombing of the central bank in Sri Lanka that ...

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