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An urgent India-Pakistan issue
The Supreme Court of India's decision asking the central government immediately to release and deport 16 Pakistani prisoners who have completed their sentence is a welcome step in civilising official conduct towards the hundreds of ...

De facto abolition
The 2015 target to establish a universal moratorium on executions — proposed by the Spanish Prime Minister at the Fourth World Congress against the Death Penalty held recently in Geneva — is likely to revive momentum on the 2007 ...

Leader Page Articles
Judicial reforms get a fillip
By N.R. Madhava Menon

The 13th Finance Commission's recommendation to allocate Rs. 5,000 crore to improve the justice delivery system constitutes a landmark opportunity.

News Analysis
Why half the sky is not enough
By Suhasini Haidar

The lesson from the rest of the world is that seat reservation for women to merely increase their representation in the legislature will not do; they need to be empowered in the real sense.

Donors failing starving Yemenis: U.N. survey
By Hugh Macleod

Millions of Yemenis are starving while the international community focuses on security issues and tackling Al Qaeda, according to the United Nations. Vital deliveries of food deliveries and assistance is being cut because of a near-total ...

Learning about adaptation from Arctic societies
By Simon Tisdall



Corrections and clarifications
The caption of the photograph that went with a report “Deve Gowda leads farmers' dharna” (March 11, 2010) erroneously called Mr. Deve Gowda as the Janata Dal (United) president. He is the Janata Dal (Secular) president, as said in ...

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