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    Editorials
    Accountability & the right to information
    The Right to Information Bill, 2005 goes a long way in putting together a comprehensive mechanism for citizens to secure information under the control of the Government and thereby (as the statement of objects and reasons asserts) promotes ...

    No guarantees but only sensible road
    It is invariably governments that are at the learning end of lessons from "peace talks" with armed extremist groups. This is decidedly the case in Andhra Pradesh now that talks between the State Government and the Maoists have broken down. As ...

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    A policy in search of a rationale
    By Siddharth Varadarajan

    With the Foreign and Defence Ministries at loggerheads, it isn't surprising that India took 17 days to confirm King Gyanendra's statement in Jakarta that military supplies to Nepal would continue.

    News Analysis
    Violence returns to the Valley
    By Shujaat Bukhari

    After a brief lull, attacks by militants have resumed in the Valley.

    "Remaining above the fray"
    In a letter to The Hindu , Anand Kumar, Deputy Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India, New Delhi writes: "I have been directed to invite your kind attention to the wrong impression conveyed through the editorial `Remaining ...

    Iran: bigger threat than the bomb?
    By Martin Woollacott

    The world can live with Iranian nuclear weapons. But can the United States?

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