Come clean on encounters, Supreme Court tells Gujarat

J. Venkatesan
Why not agree to SIT probe in Sohrabuddin case?

Further probe will delay trial: Gujarat
Integrity of the probe questioned: Justice Alam

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http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/10/stories/2009091058200100.htm

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Rethinking medical education in India

P. Zachariah
Without some quite feasible changes in medical education, we are never likely to achieve affordable, accessible and universal health coverage. 

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http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/09/stories/2009090954430900.htm

Internet gains vs Wall Street innovations

Prabhudev Konana
There are contrasting value systems at play in the universally beneficial development of the world wide web and the skewed financial reward structure that rules the markets.  

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http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/09/stories/2009090954200800.htm

He got it done

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy was a politicians’ politician. Perhaps as complete a politician as can be — aggressive in his youth, mellow in his mature avatar as chief minister, with his share of significant achievement and controversy....

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Religion in the public sphere

K.N. Panikkar
Unless the secular character of the public sphere is retrieved, the religious character that it has come to have could impinge on the functions of the state.  

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Ishrat Jahan killing also a fake encounter: probe report

AHMEDABAD: In yet another setback to the Narendra Modi government, the Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate, S.P. Tamang, has ruled that the June 2004 killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others was also a case of “fake encounter.”.......

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