Cover Story
The collapsed pedestrian bridge outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on September 21, 2010. The Commonwealth Games was marred by allegations of kickbacks in procurement.

Shackles on CBI

Bribe and blood ties

Small players, big games

Pits of sleaze

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Karnataka chooses
Siddaramaiah after he was elected to be the next Chief Minister at the Congress office in Bangalore on May 10.
India-China
Chinese troops display a banner asking Indian soldiers to 'Go Back' in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector of Ladakh. (Right) An aerial view of five tents erected by the Chinese on Indian territory.
Tamil Nadu
A scene at Kattayan Theru in Marakkanam after the attack by Pattali Makkal Katchi workers on April 25.
Related: ‘A dangerous strategy’
India & Pakistan
Sarabjit Singh’s coffin being carried for cremation at Bikhiwind village, 45 kilometres from Amritsar, on May 3.
Chit fund scam
A anguished money collection agent of Saradha Group on Mayo Road in Kolkata.
Related: Defensive mode
Jammu & Kashmir
The 330-megawatt Kishanganga Hydroelectric Power Project in Bandipora distrcit.
The Nation
A street vendor in New Delhi.

A life rendered 'extinct'

Death in the gutter

Sivakasi’s shame

Death on a wire

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Mohd Afzal Guru
Outside Tihar Jail No. 3 in New Delhi soon after Afzal Guru was hanged on February 9.
Manual scavenging
A worker clears a choked drain at Anandnagar in Hyderabad, a file photograph. Despite an Act prohibiting the employment of scavengers, the practice is rampant in many parts of the country.
Nature
A blue-footed booby on Espanola Island.
   Birds of Galapagos
Natural Resources
Water that has leaked out of a Kerala Water Authority pipeline is the 'source' of drinking water for this family near Thiruvallam in Thiruvananthapuram. The government's latest order does not mention supplying water to the housing colonies and small communities.
Amrita Sher-Gil's modernity
The cover of Jor Mokai's novel
Folk arts in peril
Ammapet Ganesan performing leather shadow puppetry show at a marriage function in Erode district, Tamil Nadu.
Related: A koothu enthusiast
If the world were 100 people
World Affairs
Israeli soldiers at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights May 5. Syria is to the east of the mountain and Damascus is just 60 km away.

Collapse of safety

A promise breached

Coup of sorts

From exile to jail

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Volume: 30 Issue: 10 Issue Date: 31-05-2013
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What the Romans can teach us

Planning failures

Nuclear posturing

Pilgrims’ India

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