Ajai Shukla

Dec 1 is disaster body's big day

At 11 am on 1 December, the newly constituted National Disaster Management Agency will have its big "coming out" at Gurgaon's plush DT Mall.

Arms purchases need more bang for the buck

New Delhi will spend in 2006-07 about the same on foreign arms as on education and health combined.

The problem with Indian forces