Hot water; hotter tempers
On April 10, a hot sunny day, Chennai’s Chepauk stadium became a fortress. Yellow barricades, armed policemen and security vans surrounded the venue. The Indian Premier League was in town, and the Chennai
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A village shows the power of collective effort
The narrow, gravelly road leading to Ranavade village has a surprise at the end: clean streets, well-planned houses and colourful rangolis greet you inside the village. Located about 120km from Mumbai, this village in Raigad district is an oddity in modern India. Nobody here takes a loan from a bank or a moneylender, nor do they go to court. And they even vote for the same person.
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Acres Of Despair
Crippled by the Nano row, families in resort to desperate measures-----
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Moon mechs
From the outside, the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network Centre (ISTRAC) at Peenya, Bangalore, looks like any other government office. But it is a different story inside
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Right choice, baby!
Apparently, PepsiCo's Indian interests are not confined to Indra Nooyi. The soft drink major has big plans and will invest $500 million over the next three years in its Indian operations. It hopes to triple its revenues over the next five year, as well. Nooyi, chairperson and CEO of m PepsiCo, is on a visit to India with a 26-member executive committee.
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Surge & shame
Centre and state trade blame over floods
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Silent sufferers
For the widows of farmers who committed suicide in Maharashtra, life is a tale of suffering and harassment
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Delhi government is toothless
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has been in power for almost 10 years, has been credited with taking Delhi from a doom city to a boom city. But her detractors say she has made the city a huge construction site, as it gears up for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. How do you see your two tenures?
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Alarm signals from the ice cap
New data from Greenland shows that the UN's dire warnings on global warming may be vastly understated-------
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Winds Of change
Tulsi Tantir a rainmaker who cashed in on the unlimited supply of nature's energy, the wind---------
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A tribe faces extinction
A mining company, with its eye on rich mineral deposits, is about to end the Dongria Kondh's way of life