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Empowering political pact
The Memorandum of Understanding signed by the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the opposition United National Party is a political breakthrough of the first order. Meant to be operational until October 2008, this bipartisan agreement on "key ...

Ambitious but achievable targets
The target of 10 per cent growth by 2012 set by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while presiding over the meeting of the Planning Commission on the approach paper to the Eleventh Plan, is certainly unprecedented. The Commission had targeted an ...

Leader Page Articles
Can Vietnam stave off bird flu?
By N. Gopal Raj

The question is whether Vietnam's strategy of vaccinating all poultry can stop the virus from establishing itself again within the country. Besides, vaccination is not without its risks.

News Analysis
Orissa industrialisation lands in trouble
By Prafulla Das

The Naveen Patnaik Government's ambitious plans could flounder on the issue of land acquisition.

Heading for a repeat of the riots?
By Vaiju Naravane

There are ominous signs that Paris could witness violence similar to last year's clashes.

Corrections and Clarifications
In the Mangalore report "`Tracking progress of rehabilitated child labourers is difficult'" (October 23, 2006), the first sentence should have been: "As many as 119 child labourers have been identified in the district ... ." The ...

"Climate change poses profound threat"
By James Randerson

Fighting global warming can save the world's industrialised nations money.

Letters to the Editor

On judicial activism

Creamy layer debate

The burqa row

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