How India lives
What is the real India? How do ordinary Indians live? Launching a new series.

No electricity, phone & lions as neighbours
She has not heard of Bachchan or Shah Rukh and does not know anything about films. Or what it means to be Hindustani.

'The government sends soft signals to terrorists'
'Ever since the UPA came to power, barring making statements that they are committed to fighting terrorism, it is not being said in actions.'

Why terrorists attack soft targets
'The ease with which the terrorists have been operating in different parts of the country is also due to deterioration in the quality of policing in the urban as well as rural areas.'

A year on, Mayawati bulldozes opponents
The 52-year-old Dalit woman created history by rising to occupy the highest political office of India's most populous state on her own strength. Raised and nurtured by her political mentor and BSP founder -- the late Kanshi Ram, she has created another history of sorts over these 12 months -- of demolitions and constructions.

JD-S will score a century: Kumaraswamy
H D Kumaraswamy, former chief minister of Karnataka and Janata Dal-Secular leader, says he is confident of defending his political turf.

Serial blasts leave trail of destruction
Terror struck Jaipur on Tuesday night when six serial blasts rocked crowded areas, including one near a temple, in the space of a few minutes.

Jaipur: Amidst misery, kindness of a few
A day after the devastating serial blasts in Jaipur, residents of the Pink City do their bit for the victims and their kin.

Jaipur Blasts: The Day After
The entire city bore an eerie silence a day after the serial blasts claimed at least 63 lives.

China earthquake rescue continues
The chances of finding survivors are diminishing by the hour

Spare a thought for a nation in peril
It's been over a week since nature unleashed its fury on Myanmar.

Of nature's fury, death & shattered lives
Nearly 9,000 people were killed and thousands injured in southwest China's Sichuan province after it was rocked by the deadliest quake in recent decades.

Peaceful 2nd phase polls in K'taka
The second phase of polling concluded in Karnataka on Friday. The voter turnout was recorded at 60.3 per cent.

Israel at 60: Surviving amidst odds
As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday as a nation, it once again finds itself under the international microscope.

Chasing the lure of black gold in K'taka
Talk of elections in Karnataka and immediately the focus shifts to Bellary -- the mining capital of the state.

Clash of the Titans at Shikaripura
It's being termed as the mother of all battles for supremacy in Karnataka.

Obama's most likely VP candidates
The seven people most likely to figure on Barack Obama's Democratic ticket.

How Anshuman of Bankura got into MIT
To Anshuman, the US was just one of the countries he would find in the Atlas.

'Nandigram is ruled by power-crazy monsters'
The people of Nandigram are desperate to send across their message, but are too scared of what might happen if they voice their feelings.

First visuals of Jaipur serial blasts

Meet FusionMan, the man with wings

Puri: Even Gods feel the heat!

How epics revive puppetry

Newest terror target remains tense

Protests against Indian police in US

Karnataka politicians woo migrants from AP

PM tells DRDO to speed up work

'Cross border terrorism may increase'

Pokhran tests strengthened India: Kalam

Chinese students learn yoga in Andhra

1. Morning sex can keep you hale and hearty

2. Why should India enter into voluntary servitude?

3. Chocolate and sex can boost brain: Study

4. God is not difficult to find; God is impossible to avoid

5. A General's letter in anguish to the PM

6. Raj Thackeray targets north Indians again

7. What the IAEA agreement gives India

8. '100 million people in India are malnourished'

9. Lhasa - Paradise Lost

10. 'Is it a crime to go to the mosque?'

B Raman: Jaipur blasts bear no unique signature
Bicycles have often been used by different terrorist groups since the jihad against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Saisuresh Sivaswamy: One billion+ cannon-fodder
Counter fear with greater fear, terror with super-terror, and the perpetrators will think twice before carrying out their evil deeds.

Harsh V Pant: UPA's 4 years: Foreign policy adrift
The absolute control of the Communists on all realms of policy-making, the single point agenda of the Congress to stay in power as long as possible and the insistence of the BJP upon destroying its credibility as a national party -- all have ensured that Indian foreign policy continues to drift without any real sense of direction.

Neerja Chowdhury: Arjun Singh's endgame may backfire in the end
Arjun Singh may have survived yet once again, but this time he may have over-reached himself.

B S Raghavan: Fight the war on New Terrorism to the finish
In the war on new terrorism, there is no mercy for ditherers.

M P Anil Kumar: Tokenism won't revive Sainik Schools
A nation neglects its security at its peril. And Sainik Schools are a pivotal cog in the security apparatus.

Apoorvanand: Why Dr Binayak Sen must be released
'If this liberal middle space is gone, there would not be a counter voice to violence.'

B Raman: Shanghai Diary: Miracle within a miracle
What strikes one during a short stay is the tremendous national pride of the Chinese people. One can discern this pride everywhere and in everyone.

B Raman: Shanghai Diary: Why the Chinese are angry
Second part of B Raman's impressions of China.

T P Sreenivasan: Bobby Jindal for Vice-President?
'To see Jindal just a heartbeat away from the US Presidency should gladden our hearts.'