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Editorials
A meaningful initiative
AT LONG LAST and with the crucial Assembly elections less than three months away, the Atal Behari Vajpayee Government has persuaded itself to taking the first meaningful initiative in the matter of addressing Jammu and Kashmir's core concern of ...
A salutary anti-terror verdict
THE DEATH SENTENCE that a Pakistani judge has imposed on Omar Sheikh in the case relating to the abduction and murder of the American journalist, Daniel Pearl, sends out a strong message of positive relevance to the ongoing global campaign ...


Leader Page Articles
WORLD VIEW
Putin aligns Russia with U.S.
By C. Raja Mohan

As India prepares for Vladimir Putin's visit later this year, it should be in no doubt about the new orientation of Russian foreign policy.
Signposts for peace in South Asia
By L. Ramdas

As a gesture of honest intent, India and Pakistan must reduce the levels of their security forces on the border.


News Analysis
A mighty challenge, a feeble response
By K.K. Katyal

The entire political establishment is united not on threats of external aggression, of terrorist violence or such other matters of national interest but against moves to check the criminalisation of politics, to ensure cleanliness of the ...
Occasions not wanting for factionalism
By V. Jayanth

CHENNAI, JULY 17. With less than a month to go for the high profile merger of the Tamil Maanila Congress with the Congress, infighting and factionalism are back in the forefront in the parent party. Every faction leader is indulging in muscle ...
TROUBLED EAST - I
Will it be a permanent divide?
By V.S. Sambandan

VALAICHCHENAI (SRI LANKA), JULY 17.A couple of years ago, when a bitter military conflict was raging, this eastern town 30 km from Batticaloa was buzzing with business. Now, when the guns are no longer blazing, a funeral silence has descended ...


Letters to the Editor
  • Education criterion
  • Dangerous legitimacy
  • Double standards
  • Recruitment scams
  • Transparency needed
  • New railway zones
  • Unreasonable rule

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