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Increasing pressure to withdraw
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's assessment that foreign troops could start withdrawing by the middle of 2006 might appear plausible at the surface. The occupation forces could pull out of pockets that have been largely left undisturbed by the ...

Modernisation brooks no delay
Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has reiterated the Government of India's commitment to speeding up the modernisation of airports, starting with Delhi and Mumbai. The global consultant/technical advisor is expected to submit his report ...

Leader Page Articles
Challenges before President Rajapakse
By V.S. Sambandan

Mahinda Rajapakse, in his self-defined role of architect of a "new Sri Lanka," has to balance several contradictions. These arise from the polarised mandate and his political allies.

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When bullying is not enough, try disinformation
By Siddharth Varadarajan

India was among those countries taken for a ride by dodgy U.S. intelligence in the run-up to the last IAEA meeting in September.

Taking a new route to change in the Mekong delta
By Amit Baruah

The stage for major conflict in the 1970s and 1980s, the region is now experiencing the benefits of economic linkages.

Iraqis' right to rule themselves
By Haifa Zangana

THE PHOTOGRAPH of an elderly Iraqi carrying the burned body of a child at Fallujah, widely shown during the chemical weapons controversy of recent days, is almost a copy of an earlier one that Iraqis remember — from Halabja in March 1988. ...

Upgrading to an iPod
By Lucy Siegle

e-waste is becoming one of the major environmental issues of our time.

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Incipient Talibanism

Chaos rules

Rajapakse's victory

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