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New phase in Pakistan
While the coalition government led by the Pakistan People’s Party is unlikely to fall after the withdrawal of support by the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif), the hope that the former adversaries who joined hands to fight against the ...

Dangerous turn in Orissa
No words can adequately condemn the cycle of murder and mayhem in Orissa that led on Monday to the burning alive of a young woman at a Christian orphanage. The 20-year-old perished in violence that recalls the fiendish lynching in 1999 of Graham ...

Leader Page Articles
Showcasing China at its best
By Ramesh Thakur

The organisation of Beijing Olympics was flawless, the spectacle grand, the facilities were superb, and records tumbled in the pool and on the tracks reflecting the world-beating quality of the facilities.

News Analysis
Flawed moves for a National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority
By P.M. Bhargava

The proposed bill to create such an authority is entirely industry-centric.

Great minds and the nature of dementia
By Aida Edemariam

The confirmation that Baroness Thatcher suffers from dementia is only really surprising in its particulars — but they are moving particulars, nonetheless. The woman who, as her daughter Carol writes in her new memoir, A ...

A wake-up call from Beijing
By Rahul S. Verghese

There is a lesson or two New Delhi should learn from Beijing on what to do to make India a successful sporting nation.

Western trade deals that steal food
By George Monbiot

The world’s hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations.

Corrections and clarifications
The last sentence in an AP report “France takes handball gold” (“Sport – Olympics”, August 25, 2008) was “Iceland has won four medals, two silvers and two bronzes”, while the table “Final ...

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