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Looking Three Ways by Ramachandra Guha

On May 23, the president of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi, laid the foundation stone of a bridge being built across the river Ravi, linking Jammu and Kashmir with Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Ten days later, she was in Rajasthan, inaugurating the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. For both trips she had to travel far from her place of residence, which — given her position — would have involved careful planning beforehand,...

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World Bank gets jittery by Richard Mahapatra

As bank gears up for competition, it may further dilute environmental safeguard policies WITH financial institutions of emerging economies like India and China getting big time into development lending, the World Bank plans reforms to attract its borrowing countries. Some of the Important plans are to disburse loans faster and on flexible terms. Bank watchers and civil society groups say the reforms, expected to be in force by the year-end, would...

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Blood on the Internet by Latha Jishnu

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped? It’s a bit of Iraq and Afghanistan out there on the Internet. Just like the invasion of Iraq was lies, deceit and regime change as George W Bush chased illusory weapons of mass destruction in that hapless country, on the Internet, too, there is an element of fabrication and duplicity...

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Lokpal bill and the Prime Minister by Anil Divan

When the basic structure of the Constitution denies the Prime Minister immunity from prosecution, how could it be argued that the office should not be brought under the scrutiny of the Lokpal? The Indian citizenry is up in arms against corruption at the highest levels of government. Anna Hazare's movement has caught the people's imagination. The former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has pitched in and called upon the youth to start...

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Dalma bowls over Centre emissary by ASRP Mukesh

A senior central forest officer today sealed his report after visiting Dalma for a final word from Union forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh on declaring the elephant sanctuary and its adjoining areas an eco-sensitive zone, a proposed tag that Tata Steel has objected to. Inspector-general(wildlife) of the Union ministry of forest A.K. Srivastava was sent to Jharkhand after Tata Steel sent a letter to Ramesh on June 24 raising concerns...

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