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Indian Express Women's
rights: Beyond the Koran
Accusing the Muslim Personal Law Board of being inattentive to women's issues, activists within the community are demanding reforms to tackle questions of personal law such as dowry, divorce and polygamy.
ASHIMA KAUL reports on a recent conference highlighting the key complaints.
Financial
Express The global bull run in gold
Instead of hoarding gold coins or biscuits, India needs to push hard for investment in attractive gold bonds, so that the dormant wealth can be put to productive
use, says SUCHETA DALAL
Asia Times India takes the fight to guerrillas
Building on the successes of its world-renowned counter-insurgency school, the Indian army is developing a second center to provide special jungle guerrilla warfare training, another sign of Delhi's increased resolve to wipe out insurgents in the northeast.
By RAMTANU MAITRA
Businessworld The ground beneath our feet
Experts fear that many of the world's fast-growing real estate markets are headed for a crash. The Indian market, too, has grown headily in the recent past. Are we headed for a crash?
Economist After the Taliban A deluge of sticky brown resin threatens to submerge the new Afghan state. According to figures released on November 18th by the UN's counter-narcotics agency
(UNODC), Afghanistan has seen a huge rise in opium production for the third year running.
The export value of this year's crop is $2.8 billion—equal to 60% of last year's GDP.
And it could be worse.
Unease
grows in the hearts of common Indians as they watch a revered
saint being arrested and humiliated, writes SOUMYA SITARAMAN
No
eulogy for Veerappan No tears
will be shed for the dead bandit, but we must address
the causes that created such a monster, says ARAVIND
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