Barack Obama’s aggression against British Petroleum over the spillage of oil in Gulf of Mexico, forcing it to create $20 billion for environmental damage, builds a disturbing contrast with the servile Indian response on Bhopal
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
The wise good men in the empowered group of ministers (sorry, not one woman in this sanctum sanctorum) have suddenly discovered a politically correct shining conscience, that it almost seems imposs
India-Pakistan relations have Nazo Reshi vacillating between hope and despair. Hailing from Srinagar, she is married to a Pakistani and lives in Islamabad.
CBI arrests former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy on criminal charges related to the mining empire that he and his brothers run. Hardnews was among the first to report how the state government is hand in glove with the mining mafia
Sanjay Kapoor Bangalore
In her third term as Delhi’s Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit has given meaning to change. Delhi, since she came to power in 1998, looks a completely different place. New ideas of urban development have been incubated. It is not that everything has worked, but Dikshit’s government was seen to be busy doing something. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with Sanjay Kapoor in Delhi
Amidst the Bhopal gas tragedy, a former bureaucrat recalls the night of horror and how individuals staked everything to save the lives of others
MR Sivaraman Chennai
There was an important detail missing in my trip to Brazil as one mapped Brasilia to Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo and changed from formals to casuals to swimming trunks.
The Pentagon becomes a growing voice in Sino-US relations even as China seeks greater space from the US in East Asia and the Western Pacific
Zorawar Daulet Singh Delhi
The mango must be approached with the reverence due to a fruit with a hallowed genealogy. Eating a mango calls for rituals comparable to the savouring of fine wines at a tasting event
Ratna Raman Delhi
Trapped from all sides by expanding towns, heavy traffic highways and railway tracks, mining and poaching, can the precious little strip of Rajaji National Park save its tigers?
Akash Bisht Chilla/Rishikesh
There are murmurs about outbreak of civil war in Afghanistan, if the withdrawal of international forces leads to domination by Pakistan
Shrinivasrao Sohoni Kabul
Fifty-five women from 12 states left home for 20 days to hit the streets through 20,000km in this scorching heat across 60 towns to push the Women’s Reservation Bill
Shaweta Anand Aligarh
