Mayawati&rsquo;s creation of ten new districts since 1994 is just &lsquo;political gimmickry&rsquo;, conceptually flawed and makes administration more difficult, say experts.

Does UP need so many districts?

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The agitation has mauled industries in Andhra Pradesh, crippled tourism, gouged the common man, severely impacted the state&rsquo;s GDP growth and brought it to a standstill.

Telangana in turmoil

VCs in India can&rsquo;t be bothered with Santosh Ostwal&rsquo;s low-tech product. But the world&mdash;including Barack Obama&rsquo;s Chief Technology Officer&mdash;loves it. Read on to find out why.

Nano Ganesh removes obstacle for farmers 

Jitesh Khosla, 56, has a Linkedin profile&mdash; an unusual appendage for a senior career bureaucrat, but not a bad tool to have for someone looking to take up a job in Mumbai.

Newsmaker: Jitesh Khosla

While the economy has zoomed along at an average of 7.2% of GDP in the last decade, real wages in the hinterland have stagnated.

The truth behind rural wages in India

The new policy on broadcasting is, largely, a force of good.

Broadcast policy raises industry's bar and ire

Out of power, their membership going down, the Left parties in India are in danger of becoming history - and its leaders are finally waking up to it.

Left in the lurch

Today, Sonu Gujjar has become the poster-boy for the labour movement by leading the agitations at the Maruti Suzuki plants in Haryana. However, he is dwarfed by the giants of activism who paved the way for the Gujjars of today.

Luminaries of labour

On the map it is hard to locate Vadakethittai, a tiny village in Tamil Nadu of less than a thousand households. Accessing the village by foot means walking for two kilometres and negotiating a desolate landscape. When you get there, though, you realise that this isn&rsquo;t an ordinary government school in rural India where you often find cows and goats wandering about the compound.

No such thing as a free lunch? 

Mamata Banerjee promised a new era in West Bengal. Yet, workers at Haldia say that old habits of extortion and violence continue under the Trinamool flag.

What 'parivartan'? business as usual at Haldia

The medium-to-high intensity blast outside Delhi High Court today left at least nine dead and more than 45 people injured.

Chronology of blasts in Delhi

Press Trust of India

Janardhana Reddy, India&rsquo;s mining baron, and a de-facto godfather of Bellary&mdash;Karnataka&rsquo;s infamous mining town&mdash;was arrested on Monday for illegal mining activity in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, thanks to a report brought out by Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde.

Newsmaker Janardhana Reddy

Jayalalithaa&rsquo;s rejuvenation of Arasu Cable is directed at bringing Kalanithi Maran&rsquo;s Sun TV to its knees, but may lead to surprising consequences.

Tamil Nadu's cable war 

Many new regulators have emerged in the last 20 years. Some have done well, others have struggled to deliver.

Making of India's regulators

India proposes to dole out $11 billion in economic aid via a new agency under the aegis of the Ministry of External Affairs .

Should India hand out economic aid?

The post-1991 reforms have brought unrecognisable change. However, there is a large unfinished agenda which, if neglected, could hobble India&rsquo;s progress to the next level.

Key policy changes  transformed India 

The deficit reduction performance has been erratic, and the quality of fiscal consolidation suspect.

The fisc meanders on 

Two events have come about in happy conjunction for Gujarat Chief Minister (CM) Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court has asked the widow of Ahsan Jaffrey, who was burnt alive by a mob in the 2002 Gujarat riots, to go back to the trial court with her plea that Narendra Modi was culpable in her husband&rsquo;s murder because he did nothing to stop the rioting&mdash;and in fact abetted it.

Newsmaker: Narendra Modi

The new rural development minister wants to use technology to force states to make payments. Critics suggest that he should fix existing problems first.

Will Jairam Ramesh's new plan fix NREGA?

At a time when several politicians are under the scanner for numerous scams in Karnataka, the ombudsman Justice Shivaraj V Patil had to step down within 47 days after assuming the charge, over allotment of sites to his family in violation of rules.

Newsmaker: Shivaraj V Patil

Attacks on Indians in Australia, and a subsequent steep drop in Indian student enrollment, have pressed Australian universities to engage more with India.

Australian colleges reach out to India

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