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Stern tests ahead
Just days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf announced the creation of a joint counter-terrorism mechanism, the search for India-Pakistan peace faces a stern test. Mumbai Police Commissioner A.N. Roy's nationally ...

Rationalising bank charges
The report of an RBI-appointed working group on the reasonableness of bank charges is bound to elicit a great deal of interest all round. The average bank customer today is not only much better informed of the services banks render but more ...

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Gujarat madrasas: an education in terror?
By Praveen Swami

Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.

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Mosquito control, Vietnamese style
By N. Gopal Raj

A community-based approach using biological control, rather than insecticides, can be effective against the mosquito that spreads the virus causing chikungunya.

Abe and Japan's moment of choice
By P.S. Suryanarayana

The new Prime Minister has a challenging task if he wants to reshape his country as a post-modern state.

ISI: in the firing line
By Nirupama Subramanian

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's remarks against the intelligence agency have created a stir.

Corrections and Clarifications
In "Intel to introduce four-in-one PC chips" (October 1, 2006), Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner was wrongly identified as the Intel CEO Paul Otellini. The caption of the accompanying photograph should have been: "Breakthrough: Intel ...

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