The State government has made significant strides in developing the social sector with people

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Madhya Pradesh economy. As much as 49 per cent of its landmass is cultivable and 74.73 per cent of its people depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihood. The sector

Madhya Pradesh boasts motorable roads, well-lit villages and well-irrigated fields. This has been made possible by creating new infrastructure and by improving the existing facilities on a priority basis. The government has made construction of irrigation facilities, upgradation of roads and creation of new power-generation facilities its thrust areas.

The State is emerging as a thriving industrial centre, thanks to the government

India may be in for a period of slow growth and inflation as agricultural output falls in the first quarter of 2008-09 and manufacturing slows down.

A documentary film on how market forces are appropriating natural resources that belong to everybody.

IN VARANASI, WITH the Ganga in the background. The documentary is part of a movement to expose the subterranean war going on for water.

Interview with R.S. Pandey, Union Secretary for Steel.

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

R.S. PANDEY:

SAIL, the largest steel producer in India, is preparing to modernise and expand its facilities in its golden jubilee year.

The survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy secure from the government promises to implement part of their demands.

Akash Kushwaha, a seven-year-old boy who suffers from malformed eyes owing to contaminated groundwater, at a press conference held to highlight the plight of the gas victims, in New Delhi on April 29.

MORE than 14 million people in the East Africa region require urgent food aid owing to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.