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Kolkata: FILE PICTURE: The CRPF Cobra team are on a combing operation at Makrana forest near Chitalnad a day after the brutal killing of 76 jawans by Maoist in Dantewada district of Chattishgarh on April 06, 2009. Within a month the Maoist again killed at least 40 people at Dantewada on Monday. Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury. May 17, 2010.

Flawed vision

At the root of the UPA government’s continued failure to defeat left-wing extremism is the absence of a clear assessment of the ground reality and a l
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

Political shake-out

Heads rolled in New Delhi and Maharashtra as the Congress scurried to retrieve lost ground.
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi & LYLA BAVADAM in Mumbai

On the boil

Inter-regional tensions are at the core of the protests over the Amarnath land issue.
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi LUV PURI in Jammu
CPI(M) GENERAL SECRETARY Prakash Karat.-V. SUDERSHAN

Nuclear standoff

The fate of the Union government hangs in the balance as the ruling UPA and the Left parties differ strongly on the India-U.S. nuclear deal.
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

At a crossroads

The Dalit leadership faces a credibility crisis in the absence of a radical political vision.
S. VISWANATHAN in chennai VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

Troubled party

As Congress leaders meet for the AICC plenary in Hyderabad, a series of mistakes and miscalculations raise doubts about their sagacity to survive in t
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

BATTLES WITHIN

The attacks directed against BJP president L.K. Advani for his utterances in praise of M.A. Jinnah in Pakistan are not going to end with his resignati
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

Lalu vs NDA, again

The NDA has once again started a campaign against its favourite target, Lalu Prasad, on the assumption that the Railway Minister is weakened by the el
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

The wages of disunity

The reverses suffered by the constituents of the Congress-led UPA in the Assembly elections can be traced back to their inability to forge a united fr
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

The churning in Bihar

The February Assembly elections in the State have thrown up the prospects of secular formations occupying both the government and the Opposition space
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

Election battles

As Bihar moves close to Assembly elections, the ruling RJD and its president Laloo Prasad Yadav are in the thick of a controversy over alleged violati
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi

A battle for Bihar

The public squabble between Laloo Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan, which has terribly embarrassed the United Progressive Alliance government, is a m
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in New Delhi and Patna
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