SATYAM SCAM
C P Chandrasekhar
AS the investigation into the corporate fraud that occurred at Satyam Computer Services proceeds and early findings are selectively leaked to the media, it appears that there were many facets to the fraud that was committed. Among the allegations, two have been emphasised in media reports. One is that the company’s accounts [...]

Decade and Half of Neoliberal Reforms and India’s Dying Children
Amit Sen Gupta
AN estimated Ten lakh children who died in 2006 in India would be alive today if they were living in the same conditions that one would find in Bangladesh. What people might find even more amazing is that over 25 lakh children who [...]

Towards A More Inclusive Republic
ON January 26, this year, we have entered the 60th year of our secular democratic Republic. In ancient living civilisations like those in China and India, 60 years is an auspicious event signifying the end of one working life and the beginning of a new life. In later civilisations though, [...]

Blow to AIIMS as ‘outsiders’ set to operate on PM
24 Jan 2009, 0139 hrs IST, TNN
NEW DELHI: The decision of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s medical consultants to bring in a team of “outsiders” to operate on him at AIIMS is seen as a huge vote of no confidence in the premier institute.
Though the [...]

A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind’s expanding “water footprint” could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water. The warnings, in an annual report by the Pacific Institute in California, come as ecologists have begun adopting the term “peak ecological water” – the point where, like the concept of “peak oil”, [...]