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A violation of the mind
The debate on the use of narco-analysis as an aid to police investigation deserves to be placed on the front-burner in India. At a time, when enlightened nations have prohibited using `truth serums' for this purpose, it is astonishing that they ...

In need of constant monitoring
The sharp increase in current account deficit need not be a cause for alarm but, as stressed in the mid-year review of the economy, needs constant monitoring. In the absence of any firm pointers to the contrary, the deficit level appears set to ...

Leader Page Articles
Vietnam and India: scaling new heights
By Vu Quang Diem

The traditional friendship and excellent political relations provide a sound base for the development of deeper economic linkages.

News Analysis
Polish airport at heart of CIA flights row
By Nicholas Watt

Szymany, a remote airport in northeast Poland, has been long suspected of having been used in the extraordinary rendition of terror suspects.

Corrections and Clarifications
A Guardian article "A fact that is conveniently forgotten" (Op-Ed, January 2, 2007) stated that "Saddam's lynching might send a shiver down the spines of the Arab elites", which led to doubts. While the Oxford English Dictionary says that ...

Iraq now worse than under Saddam
By Haifa Zangana

Saddam Hussein jailed me but his hanging was a crime. Iraq's misery is now far worse than under his rule.

Predicting the future
By Michael Fitzpatrick

Past seers gawped into the glitzy future to envisage a hi-tech world. But how many of them were right?

Letters to the Editor

Appalling apathy

Army versus police

Saddam's execution

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