COVER STORY
Briefing
DRUG TRIALS AND ETHICS
A Frontline investigation comes up with new revelations on funding, business connections and conflicts of interest in the Johns Hopkins-linked ...
The changing creed
In the global context of unethical practices in research involving human participants, the demand for strict monitoring and laws governing such ...
Claims and contradictions
There are several unsettled questions that remain at the Johns Hopkins end and the Indian end with regard to the procedural and other aspects ...
'Clinical trials should promote health care'
Dr. M.S. Valiathan, now Honorary Adviser to and formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), was for 20 ...
A judicial jolt
THE continuance of Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has come under a question mark following the categorical ruling of the ...
A shock for the TDP
The Telugu Desam Party loses ground to the Congress(I), the Left parties and the newly formed Telengana Rashtra Samithi in the elections to ...
Karnataka's agony
Karnataka is in the grip of the worst drought in 15 years. A large number of agricultural workers and their families have been migrating to ...
A hysterical campaign
How, in the post-demolition phase, the Shiv Sena used its party newspaper Saamna to spread disinformation and incite violence in Mumbai.
An unsettled peace
Efforts to revive the Northern Ireland peace process fail as the Protestent Unionists and Catholic Republicans harden their positions on ...
Provocation and retaliation
It is a tense stalemate on the Israel-Palestine front as the contending sides continue to swing at each other and slug it out.
A wake-up call
To cope with the threat from the LTTE, Sri Lanka needs to revamp its security and intelligence systems. This is the lesson from the July 24 ...
LTTE strikes in Southern Sri Lanka
October 1995: LTTE destroys oil storage complex, Colombo January 1996: LTTE bombs the Central Bank, Colombo October 1997: ...
Towards elections in Fiji
As Fiji gets set to go to the polls on August 25, a look at the line-up and the issues. SOME 15 months after an armed gang ousted ...
To build on reforms
The Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, in its second term in office, has many challenging tasks ahead. THE historic ...
Strengthening ties
The Moscow Declaration issued at the end of a historic summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong ...
The long haul
The message from Hanoi: in order to make any enhanced engagement with ASEAN meaningful, beyond its `Look East' policy, India needs to have a ...
Resisting imperialism
Cuba reiterates its decision to stand up to U.S. moves to throttle its economy and to endanger the lives of its people. CUBANS ...
Delivering the Jarawas
For the Jarawa tribal population of the Andaman islands, a court order brings hope of protection from the "civilised" world. COURT ...
Questions about a road
PANKAJ SEKHSARIA THE Andaman Trunk Road (ATR) connects Port Blair in South Andaman to Diglipur in North Andamans, covering nearly 340 ...
Feeling young man
A close look at the work of a young Indian artist. THE young painter Jitish Kallat is already a star in the Indian artworld: ...
DISTURBED DODA
Terrorism reaches a new high, but will the new-found official machismo help stop the fires? THREE days before Mujib-ur-Rahman was ...
Delivering the Jarawas
For the Jarawa tribal population of the Andaman islands, a court order brings hope of protection from the "civilised" world. COURT ...
Questions about a road
PANKAJ SEKHSARIA THE Andaman Trunk Road (ATR) connects Port Blair in South Andaman to Diglipur in North Andamans, covering nearly 340 ...
Remembering RKN
I AM resuming this column after five years. Its origins go back to early 1993. N. Ram and I had gone to see R.K. Narayan at his Chennai ...
Towards elections in Fiji
As Fiji gets set to go to the polls on August 25, a look at the line-up and the issues. SOME 15 months after an armed gang ousted ...
To build on reforms
The Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, in its second term in office, has many challenging tasks ahead. THE historic ...
Strengthening ties
The Moscow Declaration issued at the end of a historic summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong ...
The long haul
The message from Hanoi: in order to make any enhanced engagement with ASEAN meaningful, beyond its `Look East' policy, India needs to have a ...
Resisting imperialism
Cuba reiterates its decision to stand up to U.S. moves to throttle its economy and to endanger the lives of its people. CUBANS ...
Deliverance in Erwadi
The death by fire of 28 persons while still in chains in a 'mental home' in a Tamil Nadu town draws attention to the lack of facilities for ...
'State intervention is important'
Interview with Dr. C. Ramasubramanian. Shristi is a cluster of homes at Musundagiripatti, 20 km from Madurai, where the mentally ...
Life after Agra
After all the emotional froth that preceded the Summit and the waffling that followed, equations between India and Pakistan take on the ...
Troubled legacy
A family feud over Phoolan Devi's 'legacy' deepens the mystery surrounding her murder. IN life, Phoolan Devi, the bandit-turned ...
Still on the boil
With the leading Naga group threatening to pull out of the June 14 agreement in protest against the decision to restrict the ceasefire accord ...
A truce in trouble
A WHOLE week after he was expected to take over as the Prime Minister's special envoy to the Naga peace talks, the popular Nationalist ...
The demolition at Asind
A mob exploits a dispute over access to a dargah to demolish a 16th century mosque. WHEN a 300-strong crowd demolished a mosque ...
A questionable move
The requisitioning by the Central government of the services of three senior police officers who belong to the Tamil Nadu cadre of the Indian ...
A judicial jolt
THE continuance of Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has come under a question mark following the categorical ruling of the ...
A shock for the TDP
The Telugu Desam Party loses ground to the Congress(I), the Left parties and the newly formed Telengana Rashtra Samithi in the elections to ...
Karnataka's agony
Karnataka is in the grip of the worst drought in 15 years. A large number of agricultural workers and their families have been migrating to ...
A hysterical campaign
How, in the post-demolition phase, the Shiv Sena used its party newspaper Saamna to spread disinformation and incite violence in Mumbai.
Of Indo-Bangladesh distrust
A. G. NOORANI Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: International Relations and Regional Tensions in South Asia by Kathryn Jacques; Macmillan; ...
A wild ride of Russia
GOVIND TALWALKAR Post Soviet Russia by Roy Medvedev; Columbia University Press; pages 394, $37.50.
New perspectives on Partition
NAUNIDHI KAUR The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India edited by Suvir Kaul; Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2001; ...
The texture of life
On the oeuvre of Assamese writer Indira Goswami, who has won the Jnanpith Award for 2000. INDIRA GOSWAMI, who writes under the ...
On criticism and coalition dharma
Interview with BJP president Jana Krishnamurthy. Bharatiya Janata Party president Jana Krishnamurthy is faced with the difficult task of ...