There is a shortfall of 73 percent and 55 percent in inspections of sonography centres in the western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, two of IndiaÂ’s richest. ...
In the summer of 1975, the anger against corruption and high-handedness that rippled across the northern half of India had built into waves of fury against a prime minister whose legitimacy had been shattered by an Allahabad High Court verdict unseating her....
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John Nash, described variously as mathematical genius, shadowy figure, phantom, elusive, furtive, mysterious, schizophrenic, and beautiful mind, died in a horrific cab crash on May 23, exactly a month ago, along with his wife, Alicia. He was 86 years old and was returning home from the airport after having been awarded the Abel Prize for mathem...
The 70s were a decade of fierce contest between the West and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was going badly for the West - Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nicaragua had all returned Communist governments....
Zhou Yongkang was no ordinary Chinese politician, but the third ranking member since 2007 of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC). The Standing Committee members are the real rulers of China. His responsibility - the control and supervision of the vast internal security apparatus, including the criminal justice system - gave him im...
Chairman Mao, once asked about the impact of the French Revolution, quipped it was too soon to tell. On the other hand, the Partition of India, in a welter of savage, genocidal violence, suffering and dislocation of people, instantly cast a dark shadow on both India and Pakistan and their relations and nearly 70 years later...
As soon as I checked into my hotel in Mexico City, I pulled aside the window curtains and looked for what the hotel’s website had featured as its special attraction: It “is located in front of the Angel de la Independencia [one of the most important monuments in the city].†All I could see in fro...
One evening after dinner in 1991, Satish Karekar, then 42, a Mumbai businessman, experienced a dull pain and heaviness in the chest and lightness in the head. When the feeling persisted well into the night, his brother, who’s a doctor, whisked him off to hospital....
Focussing initially on nature and vistas, poetry has, in the past century at least, become a largely urban phenomenon - both in subject and location of poets - and Urdu poetry is no exception. But there are still those who look beyond urban settings and preoccupations to incorporate pastoral rhythms, songs of the seasons and festivals, and ...
