Indian Embassy attacked twice in 2 years

On October 8, 2009 a powerful explosion rocked the city of Kabul. The blast claimed 17 lives and injured another 80 including three security personnel of the Indian para-military force, the Indo-Tibetan...

Indian Floods: Seva Bharati saving lives

Floods have devastated Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and bordering districts of Maharashtra. With millions losing their homes and families many government and non-government organizations have...

It's an all-out against Naxals in India

The pressure was building up. With the recent beheading of Intelligence Officer in Jharkhand and yesterday's attack on police party which killed 18 police personnel, Govt. of India has decided to go all out against...

Immigrants Hurt?

" Consider this cost: After years of mule-headed congressional refusals to increase the number of H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, Microsoft recently opened a research facility in Vancouver for such workers. We...

"Black Widow" Surrenders

Assam has seen a lot of bloodshed in the past by rebel factions demanding autonomous states. One such militant group today formally laid down arms and joined mainstream. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi sounded...

Naxal Terror Rips Bihar Again: 16 Murdered

Update added after original postView Larger Map Naxalites have struck again. This time killing 16 people including seven children all in the age group of 10-15 years. The incident occurred in Amosi Bahiar...

Sino-Indian Relations HOT?

Indian Premier Manmohan Singh had perhaps said it too soon. Mr.Singh said in his message to the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on the occasion of Chinese national day that India was committed to...

GM Kills Saturn's Engine

General Motors (GM) has finally decided to stop production of its 24year old car brand Saturn. Announcing this on company's website GM CEO Fritz Henderson sounded disappointed. He said that the company...

Boat capsizes killing more than 32

In a boat capsize incident today in Mullaperiyar dam reservoir in Idukki district, Kerala, India more than 32 people, mostly women were killed. The mishap happened when the boat carrying 82 people on board...

Bharti-MTN - “Talktime” ends

After months of discussions and intervention by respective governments, the negotiations between Indian telecom major Bharti-Airtel and South African service provider MTN has finally been called off. The issue...

Air India Pilots "Land" Allowances

Its official now. At a press conference Praful Patel, Civil Aviation Minister, Government of India today promised the protesting pilots of Air India (AI) that the proposed pay-cuts wont be introduced before consulting them. He also said that in the light of this...

Air India Pilot's Protest "Crashes" Airline Schedules

As the protest of Senior Pilots of Air India entered fourth day on Tuesday the standoff between the pilots and the management does not seem to near an end. The pilot's are protesting a 50% slash in performance...

The Bright Side of Gloom

“Necessity is the mother of invention." This has recently been proved in the India’s North-Eastern state of Bihar. With floods wrecking havoc, ripping apart local economies and life’s the state has faced nature’s fury to the max. The recent flash floods have left...

Citizen Participation In Development

Cities have been drivers of growth since ages be it the Indus Valley or the Greek Civilization. Today also cities continue to fuel growth but are our cities infrastructure-wise sound enough to withstand the pressure on them? Cities are the centers for secondary and tertiary...

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