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What happened at the Fatah Congress? It was pretty successful as far as maintaining the status quo goes, but very bad for any chance at making progress toward a comprehensive peace. And there\’s one terribly dangerous issue-the next Fatah...
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LONDON: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday warned that any attempt to ban English in Uttar Pradesh would be divisive and further exclude the “non-English speaking have-nots” from the national mainstream.
Reacting to Samajwadi leader Mulayam...
Sri Lanka has rejected a fresh appeal by the UN to give civilians more time to leave a safe zone in the north-east, the defence secretary says.
New Delhi: Inflation eased to 0.18 per cent, a new low in over 30 years, although vegetables cost 25 per cent more than it did a year ago and so did other food items — making it a political scoring point in Parliamentary polls underway from Thursday.
Is that it? Since last summer government ministers have been warning us to get ready for the worst recession in 60 - no, 100 - years. Now politicians and officials claim green shoots are sprouting up all over the place. Barack Obama is in the...
Much was expected of Raj Thackeray, nephew of Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, when he left the party to form the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in March, 2006. In his first speech at Shivaji Park while launching his new party he promised an inclusive...
The Hindu has done a singular service to its readers by reporting the findings of the National Social Watch Coalition on the “abysmally poor” performance of so-called “celebrities” in Parliament. The list of MPs covered in the report includes...
More than six months after two young men from this village in India’s Uttar Pradesh state were shot dead by Delhi police for being alleged terrorists, a deep distrust of the outsider still prevails here.
It’s as if the people of Sanjarpur,...
There are two ways of analysing the election manifesto of any political party. First, what are the immediate benefits or detriment it brings to the party? And second, what impact will it have on the political map of the country in 10 to 20 years?
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China’s annual gross domestic product growth slowed in the first quarter of 2009 to 6.1%, the National Bureau of Statistics has announced.
This is the weakest growth since quarterly records began in 1992
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