Every time there is a terrorist attack, senior ministers of the Government start making threatening noises. But until recently they remained just that: noises. However, following the massacre at the Kaluchak military camp in Jammu, there is a difference. It is the most serious terrorist incident in the country following the audacious attack on Parliament on December 13. After the massacre at Kaluchak, national sentiment seems to favour retaliatory action against Pakistan. A report on the political, diplomatic and economic consequences of the Indian Government's possible military response to the proxy war in Kashmir.

The shrewd Andhra Pradesh chief minister cashes in on the NDA’s fragility to squeeze national resources for his state.

In Ahmedabad, Muslims languish in the ghettos of fear as the unrepentant Hindu invents new phantoms.
 

Calling the shots in the state, Mayawati leaves the BJP worried with her attempts to wean away its upper-caste voters.

Jayalalithaa’s ‘Stalin-specific’ bills make it increasingly uncomfortable for the mayor to don his robes.

After five years of negotiations, Maruti Udyog is privatised. That's good news for the future of disinvestment in India.

Satellite links that connect urban hospitals with remote clinics could revolutionise healthcare.

The path to recovery for the people of the cyclone-hit state is as hopelessly meandering as Ersama’s ...

The new cable legislation may prove to be a bugbear for both consumers and broadcasters.

A school dropout imparts education to thousands of deprived children
in Bangalore.

A woman’s desire is no longer a secret garden as more among them explore relationships restricted to sex.

With a succession of duds, the question being asked is: is Hrithik Roshan a one-trick pony?

Democracy, economic and political, if scrupulously upheld is a boon not a bane

A Shiv Sena Speaker is yet another indication of the BJP’s right-wing agenda

Anil Kumble’s defining moment comes not with wickets but an act of bravery.

Mamata wants her old portfolio. But the PM is not likely to give her a key portfolio connected with economic reforms.

Shahnawaz Hussain was given an ultimatum by the NDA’s Bihar brigade to link Patna by Jet Airways.

Film actors who came to Patna for an AIDS campaign wound up singing paeans to chief guest Laloo Prasad Yadav.

The Samata Party president B.V. Krishna Rao on party matters and Gujarat.

The US Congress will likely fund a study on the Asian tendency to heart disease
and diabetes.

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