Chennai blasts: Is Tamil Nadu's politics of procrastination to blame?

How far did the existing air of permissiveness may have contributed to those like the Indian Mujahideen targeting Tamil Nadu for setting up base, is a question that the state’s law and order......

Year-end Special: 10 landmark judgments of 2013

If there was a year that redefined the concept of judicial activism in India, it could well be 2013. Case after case the judiciary has reinforced the faith that the average Indian reposes in the......

Human life is obviously cheaper in India than in the US

How on earth did Dr Manmohan Singh and his ministers conclude that the casualties of a disaster in a nuclear plant would be fewer than the deaths and injuries caused by the Bhopal gas tragedy? And......

'Kudankulam plant two steps away from going critical'

India's first 1000 MW atomic power plant built with Russian collaboration at Kudankulam is just two steps away from going critical, a top official said on Friday. "We are on a very smooth path now.......