ON ONE side was the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) demolition squad, guarded by about 300 police personnel.

Degraded land in Gurgaon was nurtured back to health over a decade. But instead of serving as a green lung, it has been sold to a private developer, reports BRIJESH PANDEY

Neither do elephants change routes, nor are they known to use a man-made structure or follow road signs

THE DAY Jairam Ramesh declared the elephant as a

THE PROPOSED site for the Jaitapur nuclear park is a sight for weary eyes with blankets of lush grass covering the plateau 25 metres above sea level.

Unique solution Obaid Jan with friends in his barsati, reminiscing about home

Elixir of life The plastic water pots that mark the city

RAJASTHAN

Radiation, cancer, blindness, tardiness, cover-ups.The lessons from the Kalpakkam nuclear facility--------------

In the end, loud voices were all that mattered. After three months of extended discussions, legislators in the Indian Parliament yelled their assent.

This is how they did it

THE DEAN

PRANAB MUKHERJEE Union Finance
Minister
HE TOOK the call on scrapping dams across the upper reaches of the Ganga. In March, as head of the Group of Ministers on the project, he had agreed to the dam, as Rs 650 crore had already been spent and Uttarakhand

Tale of a highway. This is what a Rs.11,000 cr road looks like, with the blood of farmers on it

THE TAJ Expressway, now known as the Yamuna Expressway, certainly lives up to its first name for its ambition and grandeur.

Birbhum is the latest minefield where Adivasi lives are at stake

THE FIRST time Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met Rabin Soren was five years ago; the West Bengal chief minister gave the 23-yearold his diploma for completing a government-run course in mass communication. The second meeting was on 9 July this year, when Soren was part of a 17-member delegation of Santhal Adivasi leaders.