India Budget Special: Poverty Programs – the ideal tool of National Plunder!

Last updated on: March 2, 2011 at 9:48 pm By Desh Kapoor

In this year's Economic budget, the Indian Government has allocated Rs 40,100 crore for the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) program, in addition to the Rs.64000 crore sought by the Min Read more

Playing Vote Bank Politics with Taxpayers Money: Mukherjee Budget 2011

Last updated on: March 1, 2011 at 5:58 am By Desh Kapoor

In India, when Government talks of "Minorities" it generally means Muslims. The rest of the minorties don't mean much. Read more

We are One

Last updated on: February 28, 2011 at 9:55 pm By John Halstead

We are all One here. We are all One on this tiny, spinning, blue and white planet, This rocky "goldilocks" planet, at just the right distance from its sun, Read more

Tihar Jail Special: Experiments in Humanising the Inmates

Last updated on: February 26, 2011 at 6:31 pm By Desh Kapoor

Jails have had their own importance in every society. In India, where jails provided the launch of many a stalwarts of the Indian freedom movement - from Bhagat Singh to Gandhi to Nehru to Savarka Read more

Man who built Steel Structures and died listening to Beethoven

Last updated on: February 25, 2011 at 5:34 pm By Desh Kapoor

Article first published as The Interesting Life of Eiffel on Blogcritics. Read more

25 nations where high food prices could crush governments

Last updated on: February 24, 2011 at 2:52 pm By Desh Kapoor

The Nomura Food Vulnerability Index also speaks about which countries' governments, apart from Tunisia and Egypt, could be toppled in a food crisis. Read more

Deoband row: Panel to probe Vastanvi’s pro-Modi comments

Last updated on: February 24, 2011 at 2:51 pm By Desh Kapoor

The verdict is finally out. Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, the MBA cleric from Gujarat, will stay on as the vice chancellor of India's oldest school of Sunni Islamic learning, Darul Uloom. Read more

How Musharraf paved way for Bhutto’s assassination

Last updated on: February 24, 2011 at 2:50 pm By Desh Kapoor

Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's killing on December 27, 2007 shocked the world. Read more

Glitch forces ISRO to shut educational channel, students suffer

Last updated on: February 24, 2011 at 2:49 pm By Desh Kapoor

Indian space agency ISRO has suspended the telecast of popular educational programmes in many states due to an unidentified glitch in its ground equipment, says a senior official. Read more

199 govt websites defaced in last 6 months: Kamat

Last updated on: February 24, 2011 at 2:45 pm By Desh Kapoor

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months. Read more