In Ayodhya today, there is religion but little else

20 years after the Babri demolition, Ayodhya stands disabled, dilapidated with no development and no jobs. Devjyot Ghoshal reportsIn a small, dark three-roomed apartment, the head priest of India's......

India may win a Physics Nobel Prize in the next decade?

Country's scientific community may be at the cusp of securing a Nobel in the physical sciences, says Devijyot Ghoshal After decades of losing out some of its finest minds to the West, India's......

The soft war against the Naxals in Chhattisgarh

The Chhattisgarh government has unleashed a "soft" tactic in its war against the Naxals - residential schools for poor children. Devjyot Ghoshal travels to Dantewada, Bastar and Sukma to see for......

Turnaround in Naxal situation to take 3-4 yrs: Raman Singh

On Sunday, six personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force have been killed in a Maoist attack in Kirandul near Dantewada in Chhattisgarh. The incident comes days after the Chhattisgarh......

Kamal Nath benefited from Bengal contract: WikiLeaks

In 1976, Kamal Nath, now urban development minister, may have benefited from “a very large” contract awarded under the then West Bengal power minister, A B A Ghani Khan Choudhury,......

Malaysian baron eyes Indian skies

AirAsia founder and group CEO Anthony Francis Fernandes has been watching the Indian skies for a long time.Born to a Goan father, with a childhood partially spent in Kolkata -- where he attended La......

Fake consumer durables a real worry for companies

In June 2011, a consignment of about 4,000 AKAI television sets was confiscated at a Chinese port. The problem with the cathode ray tube (CRT) television sets scheduled to be shipped to India was......

'India: Success abroad, domestic challenges manifold'

Reticence can be a double-edged sword.For Jayanthi Natarajan, minister for environment and forests, her reserve has attracted much criticism from domestic detractors.Yet, on the high table of......