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24-06-200650 STORIES

PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi at the party's 'FDI rally' in New Delhi.-MANVENDER VASHIST/PTI

Duplicity in the Durbar

Historical illiteracy

Children at the Shati refugee campin Gaza City on November 3.-MAHMUD HAMS/AFP

Silence for Gaza

How Britain cultivated Egypts Muslim Brotherhood in the 1940s and 1950s

Paddy transplantation in Progress in Mannargudi taluk of Tiruvarur district on October 28.-B. VELANAKANNI RAJ

Mines of concern

Rudramoorthy Cheran, perhaps the most clairvoyant among the poets of the Eelam movement.-M. VEDHAN

Of resistance and loss

Chinas rise and the open principle

Islamist proxies

AT THE PARAMBIKULAM TIGER RESERVE IN PALAKKAD DISTRICT of Kerala. Thanks to conservation efforts, there are more tiger sightings in the reserve than before.-

Tiger tales

West Bengal: Discontent in Singur

Live bites

VINO JOHN

Gentleman politician

Finance: India on top

Students and teachers demonstrate against Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh in the university's north campus in New Delhi on November 29. Students and other employees have joined the teachers in their struggle against the hasty implementation of the semester system.-SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR

Teachers resistance

A homam being performed on the premises of the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai on November 22.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Tamil Nadu: Homam therapy

Quasar,750 million years after the Big Bang.-

Science & Technology

New quasar

Ex-servicemen depositing their gallantry medals at Jantar Mantar in-V. SUDERSHAN

Armed Forces: A different battle

Markandey Katju, Chairman of the Press Council of India.-SUSHANTA PATRONOBISH

West Bengal: Admirer turns critic

Former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa after inaugurating the district office of the KJP in Chitradurga on December 4.-THE HINDU ARCHIVES

Karnataka: From BJP to KJP

Mexicos challenge

The upper arm bone of Nyasasaurus parringtoni next to a cross section of the bone. The many colours indicate that the bone fibres are disorganised, much like those of early dinosaurs.-

Science & Technology

Dinosaur ancestor

Shaheen Dhada and Renu Srinivasan outside the Palghar court in Thane, Maharashtra, on November 19.-VIVEK BENDRE

In a hurry to act

Science & Technology

Quantum kisses

MAHMUD HAMS/AFP

Gaza under attack

A protest against the IT Act in Bangalore on December 2.-K. MURALI KUMAR

Cyber challenge

Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, speaks at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai on December 3.-KARIM SAHIB/AFP

Net worth

Side view of the Narmada human's skull.-

Science & Technology

Narmada human

Troubled transition

V.V. KRISHNAN

Challenge is to build an alternative platform

A Palestinian amid what remains of his house after an Israeli air strike on November 15.-MAHMUD HAMS/AFP

A law unto itself

Celebrations in Mumbai after the hanging of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist who survived 26/11.-PTI

Ways of neoliberalism

C.V. SUBRAHMANYAM

The government has failed miserably

GHULAM NABI AZAD with DMK chief M. Karunanidhi and party MP Kanimozhi in Chennai ahead of the vote on FDI.-PTI

Politics of compromise

CAG Vinod Rai and PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi at a function in New Delhi in October.-RAJEEV BHATT

Auditor the target

Outside a cooking gas refilling station in Srinagar on November 15.-NASSAR AHMAD

Cash evangelism

Friends in need

Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, L.K. Advani and Arun Jaitley at the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting in New Delhi on November 20 to work out strategies for the winter session of Parliament.-V.V. KRISHNAN

Weak challenger

Stakeholders not consulted

AT THE LAUNCH of the APP in New Delhi on November 26.-AFP/PRAKASH SINGH

Promises to keep

An image on the computer at the Launch Control Centre on Wheeler Island showing (on the left) the electronically simulated attacker missile being killed by a 'digital' interceptor at an altitude of 120 km and, in the middle of the picture, a real target missile from Chandipur, Odisha, being neutralised by an actual interceptor missile at a height of 15 km.-DRDO

Shield in the sky

The eminent historian Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita of JNU. She says teachers should enjoy a certain degree of independence in a semester system.-T. SINGARAVELOU

A democratic process

Millers market

Vote and drought

The rationale for more ranges

THE LIBERTAD, an Argentine naval vessel, was detained in Tema, Ghana, on October 21 under a court order obtained by NML Capital Ltd, a 'vulture fund'. The firm says it will release the ship only after Argentina pays it at least $20 million of the $300 million that Argentina owes it in defaulted sovereign bonds.-REUTERS

Vulture funds that feed on sovereign debt

Jagadish Shettar. He is for comprehensive development of the State.-K. BHAGYA PRAKASH

Development is the mantra

B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology was the first engineering college to be established in the north Karnataka region.-PHOTOGRAPHS: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Region on the rise

Shweta Bhatt. The suspended IPS officer's wife is in a direct fight with Narendra Modi.-PTI

Ticket and tantrums

Media under fire

Duplicity in the Durbar

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