Despite heavy deployment of police, Veerappan has remained elusive. The Special Task Force used the ugliest tactics to track him down, but failed

More than 200 villagers of Ghatvad village in Amreli district of Gujarat, have been on dharna (sit-in demonstration) for the past 25 days. They are protesting against the granting of a mining lease

Veerappan s history has been written in red in official records. But support from high places as much as from the ordinary people has sustained him

How poor decision making encourages crime

How smuggling has affected villagers in Veerappan s area

A scribe did what the State could not he reached Veerappan

Sudden slacks in the hunt for Veerappan

The basin area of the Ganges river in Bangladesh is extremely dependent on a regular water supply from upstream to meet requirements for agriculture, fisheries, navigation, salinity control, domestic and industrial sectors. In 1975 India commissioned a barrage on the Ganga river at Farakka to divert significant portion of the dry season flow in order to make the Calcutta port navigable.

Malaria, prevalent in over 100 countries, poses a risk to some 2,700 million people across the world. Poor health infrastructure and drastic ecological changes have favoured transmission of the malaria parasite, which has developed an immunity even to les

The malaise of malaria Malaria, prevalent in over 100 countries, poses a risk to some 2,700 million people across the world. The direct and indirect economic cost of the disease in Africa alone was