DU prof Saibaba gets life term for Maoist links

Suspended Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and four others were on Tuesday held guilty of having links with Maoists and were sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Maharashtra's......

SAR Geelani's CRPP a Maoist front: Government

The government on Wednesday named Committee for Release of Political Prisoners led by Delhi University teacher S A R Geelani, who was acquitted in Parliament attack case, as a Communist Party of......

Stalingram

Nothing surprising in it. Nandigram was Stalinised the same way Stalin had Siberia-ised Soviet Russia, and justified it too. So West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya accepted 'paying in......

IL&FS sells environment biz to pare Rs 1,200 cr debt

Bankrupt Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) has sold the entire stake in the waste management arm IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services (IEISL) and its subsidiaries to......

Design smart cities for India without copying the West

The most efficient utility for our smart cities will be about smart design, writes Sunita Narain.  Smart cities will work only if we can reinvent the very idea of urban growth.  Smart......

30 companies vie to turn Delhi's waste into power

When 30 companies, including the who's who of the power sector, queue up to invest in a waste-to-energy plant, one thing is clear: there is money to be made. Or companies like Tata Power, GMR......

Moves: Anand vs Carlsen, Game 5, World Chess Championship

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand blundered in a drawn endgame and went down to challenger Magnus Carlsen in the fifth game of the World Chess Championship, in Chennai, on Friday. With......

Anand shocked by Leko, squanders lead

World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Peter Leko of Hungary in the rapid game in the fourth round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice,......

Anand extends lead to two points

Viswanathan Anand had mixed luck, losing yet another blindfold game, but then crushed Lev Aronian in the rapid game to extend his lead to a full point in the section after nine rounds of the Melody......

Anand scores second win

Viswanathan Anand registered his second victory on the trot, crushing former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine, to inch closer to the leaders after the sixth round in the Corus Chess......

Anand wins Corsica Masters title

Viswanathan Anand won his fifth consecutive Corsica Masters Chess title beating Russian Sergei Rublevsky in the final in Bastia, France on Thursday.Anand collected the winner's cheque of Euro......