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Facing Nithari Heat, Mulayam Targets Opposition
Facing flak over alleged police negligence over the heinous serial killings in suburban Noida, Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party Sunday flayed opposition parties for "politicizing" what it termed a "crime against humanity". In full-page advertisements issued in some dailies here Sunday, the Samajwadi Party admitted: "It's sad and unfortunate. In fact, the incident at Nithari is one of the most inhuman and heinous crime (sic)." Read On >>>

Tripura Marches Ahead in its Journey Since Statehood
Three and a half decades after Tripura attained statehood in 1972, this northeastern state has turned a full circle, despite facing several odds like geographical remoteness and an unrelenting insurgency. Sandwiched between Assam/Manipur and Bangladesh, this landlocked state of 3.1 million people is stepping into its 36th year as a state of the Indian union ... Read On >>>

Highly Polluted Hindon needs Cleansing
The Hindon in western Uttar Pradesh has become one of India's most polluted rivers due to callous industries as well as indifferent authorities and is causing serious diseases, says a new study. A once clean river has been reduced to a trunk sewer passing through urban towns, carrying a heavy load of pesticides released both from factories as well as agricultural run off from the fields, says the report released by Janhit Foundation. Read On >>>

Nagpur's Gut Feeling comes True
Right from the word go, the gut feeling in the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) stadium was that the turnaround in India's fortunes will come here. And it did, when the Caribbean team was sent packing 14 runs short of victory. Glued to their seats well before the start of the first India-West Indies ODI match Sunday, spectators in the jam-packed stadium cheered the Indian batsmen raining runs all through the innings barring two short low spells. Read On >>>
Team India Starts on A Winning Note

Cool Hillary against Intellectual Obama by Gabriele Chwallek
It is an unusual race for the Democratic nomination for 2008 US presidential election. A woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is pitched against an African-American; one politically experienced, intelligent and cool, and the other young, charismatic and intellectual charmer. Read On >>

Kamal Nath to Head 100-strong Indian Team to Davos by Arvind Padmanabhan
It's the annual networking season once again for the world's top business honchos and decision makers in the scenic Alpine settings of Davos in Switzerland and India will be represented by a 100-member team led by Commerce Minister Kamal Nath. Read On >>>
Indian Mango Fest in France, China, Malaysia 

India Could Punish Pakistan for Terror Attack: US
Improved India-Pakistan relations notwithstanding, the US apprehends a terror attack on a high profile target could prompt India to "punish Islamabad for its continued support to Pakistan-based militants". Like last year, the US continues to fear that "an attack on a high-profile target might lead New Delhi to take action to curtail militant capabilities in Pakistan or Pakistani Kashmir and punish Islamabad for its continued support to militants," Read On >>>

Tata Motors Starts Work at Singur, Mamata Cries Foul
Tata Motors Sunday initiated preliminary steps to construct its small car plant at Singur near here with the consent of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corp (WBIDC), even as Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee slammed the state government and the company for starting work "surreptitiously".  Read On >>>

• ULFA Denies Bombing in Bangladesh 
• Nepal Paralyzed by Indefinite Strike 
• Australia Grapples Biggest Floods 
• 3,200 Additional US Soldiers Arrive in Baghdad  
• 19 US soldiers killed in Iraq   
• Sweet Revenge: Cops Harvest Criminals' Sugarcane 

After Racism Row, Big Brother Faces Axe
While Shilpa Shetty is now smiling, Celebrity Big Brother show that catapulted her to limelight may be in for difficult times. The Channel 4 board is meeting here Monday to decide if it is worth continuing the reality show in the light of the embarrassing row over the allegedly racist abuses targeted at the Indian actor. Read On >>> 

Indo-US Business Cultures : Will the Twain Meet? by Ashok Easwaran
A group of senior vice presidents from the Indian affiliate of an American company were in the United States for a conference. As they entered the conference room, an American vice president noticed that the room was in disarray. She hurriedly started rearranging the chairs and asked an Indian executive with her to help. To her dismay, the Indian did not offer assistance, but watched her impassively. Read On >>>

Columbia Business School Eyes India Inc for Student Placement  by Prashant K. Nanda
Time was when Indian management institutes targeted US firms for the student placement. Now Columbia Business School, one of the top 10 management schools of the world, is eying India Inc for value addition to its students' CVs. Read On >>>

Villages Exiting Sariska for Tiger Re-entry by Anil Sharma
Rajasthan has finally begun relocating villages that fall inside the Sariska reserve, having drawn severe flak for the disappearance of tigers from the sanctuary. This will be followed by a re-entry of the big cats. Initially, two of the 15 villages in the reserve will be shifted out. The move is expected to help curb poaching, which had led to the tiger population being wiped out.Read On

Liberia Bound All-woman Contingent Ready to Weather Challenges by Murali Krishnan
An all-woman paramilitary contingent from India that left for strife-torn Liberia Saturday to join UN peacekeeping operations in the west African nation is aware of the "volatile" situation there and quite prepared to face the "tough" challenges. The specialized Formed Police Unit (FPU), comprising 125 female officers of the paramilitary force, has over the last six months received training in crowd control, handling of weapons, teargas and unarmed combat. Read On >>>

Trade Unions Want Balco's Public Sector Status Back by Sujeet Kumar
Leading trade unions in India's aluminium major Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) reiterated that the government should give a serious re-look at taking back Balco's 51 percent sold equity. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 2001 sold the public sector undertaking's equity to Anil Agarwal-owned Sterlite Group at Rs.5.5 billion, a deal that sparked protests by then opposition Congress and Left parties. Read On >>>

Journeying Into Dark Lives of India's Street Kids by Nayanima Basu
Shekhar Saini ran away from his village in Bihar because he could not bear the extreme poverty his family was facing. In the hope of making it big in the city, he found his new home on the ever-teeming platform of the New Delhi railway station. Today Saini, 21, is a role model in his village. This is not because he left his home in his teens, but because he is giving back to the unlikely community of street children. Read On >>>