Parched South India faces biggest water crisis

Kerala, Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are facing a severe drought this year, affecting many lives. Karnataka: Worst drought in decades The Krishnaraja Sagara Dam, which stores water from the......

1855 ultras lay down arms in Assam before Chidambaram

Congratulating Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for the massive surrender, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram assured those who surrendered that they would be treated with honour and dignity. K......

Bangladesh ex-PM Khaleda Zia charged in graft case

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission has, for the first time, formally pressed charges against detained former premier Khaleda Zia for allegedly contracting out several gas fieldsto a Canadian......

ONGC and RIL's dream of making it big at KG basin has turned sour?

The upstream business is not always about increasing production or produce what was envisioned. There are always surprises. It is not a factory that you put a machine and it produces 20,000 units......

RIL-ONGC row: Can the govt find a solution?

Experts say finding a solution within the high court-mandated timeline of six months may be tough. The government has begun preliminary internal discussions to understand the implications of the......

Little gas left at two ONGC blocks; fuel flows to RIL

A report, by DeGoyler and MacNaughton, has put a question mark on the future production from the five ONGC discoveries. There is a shadow on future production from the five discoveries of the......

Why India's gas pricing needs urgent reforms

India's natural gas production will stagnate at current levels if pricing reforms are not implemented and it will have to import heavily to meet the demand, a report by US-based consultancy IHS has......

V Anand: From chess prodigy to World Champ

After playing exhaustive chess for over three decades, Viswanathan Anand has assured himself a place in the league of all time greats as he retained the World Championship crown with consummate......

Vishy Anand making all the right moves

If Viswanathan Anand topples Veselin Topalov, then it will be an against-the-odds victory for the maestro. When Anand isn't working his way through obscure opening variations, he is often found......