Discontent can be heady. It can also fuel a colourful roadshow. The World Social Forum has come to Mumbai and an amorphous community of social activists, anti-globalisation polemists, environmental

The 28th convention of the World Heritage Committee held in Suzou City, China, has expressed its appreciation at the measures initiated by the state government to develop Hampi, while deciding to

Labourers engaged to restore Firoz Shah Kotla, a protected monument, by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have occupied the 14th century tombs within the complex. Conservationists are outraged but

Mahatma Gandhi had envisaged that in free India, nobody will carry human waste on their heads. But in Jharkhand manual scavenging is a harsh reality. In many parts of the state, there are thousands

Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd, a subsidiary of the state-owned gas major ONGC, has stepped up the implementation of its Rs 600-crore investment plan to produce Euro-IV fuel by 2007, much

The panic-stricken residents of 56 villages along the banks of the Sutlej were in for yet another tense night with the Chinese authorities informing the Government of India that a breach had started

The petitioners' who filed a PIL that led to the Supreme Court forming a nine member expert committee to look into the Red Fort's restoration, now say there is an urgent need to have a

The Supreme Court gave its approval to a nine-member committee for overseeing the Red Fort restoration work, which was stalled after a PIL was filed by prominent citizens, accusing the Archaeological

A grand celebration to mark 350 years of the Taj Mahal is on the horizon. And while the right year for the planned six-month gala seems to have slipped by, the organisers

Sudan, torn by civil war, human misery and upheaval, was not always that way.
For centuries Africa's biggest country was a jewel in the continent's cultural crown - rich, powerful and a meeting