Lop-sided duel
Can things get any worse for India's Grand Old Party? It is a telling comment on the state of affairs within the Congress that the only thing in recent times to have energised its rank and file turned out to be Jitendra Prasada's rather innocuous challenge on Sunday to Sonia Gandhi's leadership.



Behind the blasts
The arrest of two persons accused of blowing up the Kanishka in 1985 will be widely welcomed in India. Fifteen years is a long time to wait for this first major step in the process of bringing the guilty to justice.



Clueless in Gaza
It is not a question of peace. It is a question of justice. What Clinton and Barak are hoping to screw out of Arafat is tranquility in exchange for shelving the basic issue of a sovereign state for the Palestinians in their homeland, with its capital in Jerusalem.



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