the Naxalite attack at Orissa's Nayagarh town is not a wake-up call for the state. It is a big slap on its face. The busy township, hardly 100 kilometres from the state capital, is not a usual target
by the time a copy of this magazine reaches you, the finance minister would would have presented the Union Budget in Parliament. The details of the Rs 32,000-crore debt relief package
AGNIMIRH BASU Bertrand de la Chapelle is the Special Envoy for the Information Society, French Foreign and European Affairs Ministry. A recent meeting of the
It was the mid 1980s. Environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: track down the person who had conceptualized the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His search I tagged along led him to
The Mumbai metro looks set to run on standard gauge tracks. The Union Ministry of Railways had recommended the broad gauge system, but the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority deemed the narrower standard gauge system suitable for Mumbai's geography. Not everybody is pleased with the decision.
ABHIJIT VINAYAK BANERJEE I was trying to think what I would do if I were a chicken-owner and it looked like the flu had arrived in the village. I would worry, of
first up, another tribute is due to all the people that campaigned and supported the Right To Information Act, 2005. But for this vital legislation, we would have been so much the poorer for not
after 30 years of efforts in India to conserve gharials, the country does not have one veterinarian who can conduct a post-mortem to establish the cause of a gharial's death. The animal is found
