In this two-part series, Dinesh Kumar Mishra highlights the challenges faced by the much abused Bangmati River in Bihar because of solid waste, industrial effluents, encroachment and rampant construction along the river's banks.

The government has asked SIAM members, to provide fresh data which will provide an indication about the diesel vehicle demand in the country.

Embarrassed by the debate on whether its suggestion that a human being can live on Rs 32 a day in urban India, the Plan panel has said those who are not really poor should be excluded from being enumerated as being poor.

'A system that is judge, jury, and executioner, with draconian and apparently ill-defined powers and a haphazard system of oversight is not necessarily a better denouement, even if the current situation is untenable,' says Ram Kelkar.

Lack of sleep has to be taken seriously. If you're suffering from a sleep disorder, help is at hand.

Frankly, who does Dr Singh want to talk to and what is his big magical prescription for a Kashmir 'breakthrough'?

The instant SLP is against the final order/judgment dated 25.05.2010 of Delhi High Court.

Andrologist and microsurgeon Dr Sudhakar Krishnamurti responds to rediff readers' sexual queries.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech while addressing the all-party meet to resolve the Kashmir crisis in New Delhi on Tuesday

Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia, faithfully collecting endless data to feed his continuous research on improving developing economies. His special beat: Any of India's 600,000 varied villages.

Senior Earth Institute economist and Dr Nirupam Bajpai is a global vagabond. He flits between the Big Apple, interior India, Mumbai, New Delhi and other developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia, faithfully collecting endless data to feed his continuous research on improving developing economies. His special beat: Any of India's 600,000 varied villages.

Congress's Rajya Sabha MP and chief interlocutor of the Andhra Pradesh government who talked to the then PWG in 2004-05 speaks about his experience of tackling Maoism in the state and what could be done to curb the growing menace in India's central heartland.

After 11 days of strike that crippled the state machinery in Jammu and Kashmir, two government employee unions on Wednesday called off the stir as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah assured them to fulfil their demands within three months.

To assist aspiring MBAs in their preparation, students at IIM Lucknow have come together to pool their experiences of the admissions process and present these tips.

The IIT JEE is coming up on April 11 and we asked readers who have taken the test in previous years to share their tips on how to score well in the exam. Here we publish some of the responses we received.

Systematic preparation and understanding the basics is the only route to success for this very competitive examination. A step-by-step guide on how to prepare.

India is willing to walk the "extra mile" to open a new chapter in relations with Pakistan but it must act decisively against terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted on Monday."We seek cooperative relations with Pakistan. Our objective is a permanent peace because we recognise that we are bound together by a shared future. If there is cooperation between India and Pakistan, vast opportunities will open up for trade and development that will create prosperity.

Unless the Naxals put a stop to violence, Operation Green Hunt will continue, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram told mediapersons at Kolkata's Writers' Building on Tuesday.

Former West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray wrote to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram recently suggesting the central government involve social bodies for the welfare of the Lalgarh people reeling under acute poverty and underdevelopment.

Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat's fourth book '2 States: The Story of My Marriage', is semi-autobiographical. Here, an excerpt.

Majid Manihar's death in Nepal has dealt a body blow to the ongoing probe into the Inter Services Intelligence-sponsored fake Indian currency racket.

I come before you humbled by the responsibility that the American people have placed upon me, mindful of the enormous challenges of our moment in history, and determined to act boldly and collectively on behalf of justice and prosperity at home and abroad.

'Sri Lankan army chief General Fonseka told me that 10 minutes before they were killed, ambassadors were calling up Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse to save Prabhakaran and top LTTE leaders. Fonseka said any fool would have known that a ceasefire appeal was to save Prabhakaran and not the people, because there were no people there,' reveals Nitin Gokhale, author of the new book, Sri Lanka: From War to Peace.

Climate Challenge India, a climate change mobilisation effort by Bangalore-based NGO Center for Social Markets has produced a film titled In Good Company: Corporate India and the Climate Challenge that partly tries to answer the question but also raises some red flags on the issue. The film was launched in May at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen. As CSM's founder and climate change campaigner Malini Mehra explains that the film was a labour of love.

OCA chief tells Indian cricketers to accept WADA clause The Olympic Council of Asia secretary-general Randhir Singh urged India's national cricketers to fall in line and accept the World Anti-Doping Agency's 'whereabouts' rule.

A consummate Russian diplomat, Vyacheslav Trubnikov is returning home this week after having served as serving as Russia's ambassador to India for nearly five years. The period has seen several highs and lows in the bilateral relationship, including the building of the first civil nuclear power plants by Russia and nagging problems over defence spares and equipment. Edited excerpts from an interview with Jyoti Malhotra

IIML student Rahul Sanghvi shares how he approached the test and some mistakes he could have avoided.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the Budget Speech of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee:

And we call this devolution of powers, and on paper exult that we have local self governments while what is happening is that a whole new mafia of officialdom and politicians with nexus to every unholy aspect of civilised life flourishing.

The airlines worldwide may collectively lose a whopping $9 billion in 2009, a key aviation body said in its forecast, nearly doubling its March estimate of $4.7 billion loss, spelling a rapidly deteriorating revenue environment for the industry.

In the second part of a series, Get Ahead readers share their tips on how not to be attacked in Australia.

The world's middle class is expanding. Here's how to plan around a hungrier, thirstier and more polluted world.

The crisis is the best thing to happen to the Chinese government in a long, long time.

'Let others gauge from how you look that you are indeed a diamond. This will help you put other people in proper perspective. They are also human beings and wonderful creations of God,' reader Nitish Rai Gupta writes to his daughter Tisha

Tips for shopping and banking online safely.

Corporate grooming expert Suneeta Kanga gives you the lowdown on how to behave yourself in the office. Here's what's cool and what's not.

Former student of Warwick University, Aruni Mukherjee shares his advice on how you can improve your chances of landing a job post graduation.

It was one of the most tantalising days in Indian Parliament. Parties debated for and against the nuclear deal. MPs crossed swords, armed with allegations and statistics. As the nation kept glued to the happenings, rediff.com's Prem Panicker gave its readers a blow-by-blow account of what happened. Here is the transcript:

In conversation with Jayamala, the first woman president of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce.

And that's where the Jetta's strength lies its ability to push Volkswagen into more hands and make them part of the quality experience.