Cover Story

Right on top

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on March 12 to celebrate the party's grand showing in the Assembly elections.

Cover story: Uttar Pradesh

Arithmetic of success

Uttar Pradesh BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya celebrates with supporters on March 11.

Cover Story: Goa

Up in the air

BJP MLA Pramod Sawant celebrating his victory at Bal Bhavan in Panaji, Goa, on March 11.

Cover Story: Manipur

Tightrope walk

Supporters of the Congress celebrating in Imphal on March 11. With 28 seats, it is still the single largest party.

Governance

Dubious transfer

J.S. Deepak (right) with Manoj Sinha, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications, in New Delhi on October 28, 2016.

Controversy

Twisting history

Data Card

Cost of security

This fortnight

BJP gains in panchayat polls

Women wait to vote in the panchayat election, at Tangiapada village in Khurda district on February 21.

Nature

The Beetles story

The giraffe weevil (Cycnotrachelus flavotuberosus). Weevils are a type of beetle and they are a menace to crops.

This fortnight

BJP leader held in baby-sale racket

Juhi Chowdhury being produced in court in Jalpaiguri.

Korea

Twin troubles

An undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on March 1, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting the Large Combined Unit 966 of the Korean Poeple's Army.

United States

Inventing enemies

Srinivas Kuchibhotla (left), who was killed, with his wife, Sunayana Dumala, and friend Alok Madasani.

Exclusive

Anatomy of a loot

A granite stockyard near a quarried hill in Keelavalavu near Madurai.

Cover Story: Uttarakhand

Decisive mandate

Shyam Jaju (seond, right), in charge of the BJP in Uttarakhand, along with former Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (third from right) celebrating the party's victory in Dehradun.

Cover Story: Punjab

Return of the Congress

Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh (centre), with party leaders Harish Chaudhary and Asha Kumari, flashing the victory sign after his party's landslide victory in the Assembly elections, in Chandigarh on March 11.

GDP data

GDP conundrum

The orange business in Nagpur was doubly hit. Demonetisation and surplus production together brought down wholesale prices.

Demonetisation

Persistence of misery

Labourers waiting for work in Mumbai on December 5, 2016, when the impact of demonetisation had begun to be felt.

Education

To end inequity in education

Wendy Kopp.

Controversy

Anxiety over land

On day 14 of the protest against the hydrocarbon project at Neduvasal.

Legislation

Bitter medicine

At a private hospital in Kolkata.

Eugene Garfield

Science watcher and entrepreneur

Eugene Garfield.

This fortnight

An arrest and a donation

Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

Africa

Sahrawis’ struggle

A Sahrawi woman near an outlook post of Moroccan soldiers at the wall separating Morocco from Western Sahara, controlled by the Polisario Front.

Mexico

Time to look east?

A Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) truck in Veracruz, Mexico. In 2014, Mexico abolished the monopoly of the state-owned Pemex, inviting foreign investment. ONGC Videsh Ltd set up an office in the country in 2015.
Volume: 34
Issue: 06
Issue Date: 31-03-2017

Columns

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

C.P. Chandrasekhar

A nexus under attack

A near-unprecedented process of penalising corruption and bribery has begun in South Korea as a resu»

PREOCCUPATIONS

Jayati Ghosh

The long fight for justice

The way the state dealt with two communal massacres and their aftermath in Bihar and Gujarat is a s»

UNMEDIATED

Sashi Kumar

Born to blush unseen

Ten Malayalam films shortlisted for the John Abraham award were all profound and engaging, but few a»

At the City’s Margins: Coal, Land and Livelihoods in Chennai, By Mukul Kumar

A report that argues that the city’s margins are not ‘natural’; they are constantly being made and remade through particular technologies of urban planning. Read more »


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