India drops plan for country-wide inter-linking of rivers fearing ecology damage.

The Supreme Court has severely criticised the government of Uttar Pradesh, led by Chief Minister Mayawati, for deciding to go ahead with its plan to build statues of and memorials for Dalit leaders in the state despite the court’s ban and also warned the state government that it “cannot treat the court like a political party.”

The Government of India has renamed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

A nondescript Dalit outfit in Kerala - Dalit Human Rights Movement - makes its presence known with a gruesome murder.

Warning: Travelling by train through Bihar is injurious to your life.

Mutawas, the ruthless and primitive religious police of Saudi Arabia are a rule unto themselves. Joy C Raphael's book on the mutawas and their modus operandi is an eye-opener.

This is going from bad to worse. The Shashi Tharoor Twittergate saga is not dying down at all. The main at the center of it all is currently in Africa - I don't think it will end nicely when he is back.

The Congress Party and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the ruling-alliance partners in Maharashtra, are about to agree on a seat-sharing pact for the elections to the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly to be held in October 2009.

The ruling Congress Party has announced the names of 56 candidates and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it would contest in about 50 seats in the elections to the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly to be held on October 13, 2009.

Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak (supreme head) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has met Atal Bihari Vaypayee, retired leader of the Bharatiya Janata Parry (BJP) and former Prime Minister.