Bhogpur traders stand in the way

Friday 2 June '06

Traders are against a flyover, which they say will divide the town into two...

Rly bridges make easy stretch tough

Thursday 1 June '06

Were it not for four railway overbridges, the National Highway-1 from Jalandhar to Amritsar could have been the easiest to four-lane.

Final four-lane stretch to Chandigarh faces land hurdle

Wednesday 31 May '06

The National Highway between Ambala and Chandigarh, notorious as the killer stretch, is at last taking baby steps towards safety and decongestion.

Private players divide Punjab fields

Friday 26 May '06

Mention Reliance India Limited in the fields of Punjab and you are sure to find yourself in the midst of a heated debate...

Punjab’s farmer must think smart

Wednesday 24 May '06

Farming is “time-pass”, he had said. It has been two years since Malkit Singh of Lehal Kalan village in the Sangrur district of Punjab said this to me but his words still gnaw.

The brave live here

Sunday 30 April '06

Three years ago The Indian Express initiated a move to build a war memorial in Chandigarh. In a few months this lasting tribute to the martyrs of a region which sends the maximum number of men to the armed forces will be complete

OYE!

Sunday 16 April '06

Forgettable music and routinely raunchy videos have defined the Punjabi pop landscape for years. But now, some young men are giving it a new respectability.

India has the right pill for Myanmar

Saturday 18 March '06

The Indian pharma industry should take a bow. In a country where the China-Singapore-Thailand troika controls a major chunk of trade, Indian pharmaceuticals have driven out the existing competition to make it to the No. 1 slot with their products capturing nearly 60 per cent of the market share.

Three yrs not enough for Konkan Rly to build bridge at Ranchi

Wednesday 15 March '06

The dusty road of Ranchi’s Kadru Chowk is no different from three years ago when the Konkan Railway Construction Ltd started building a bridge there.

Kalam talked Suu Kyi with Than Shwe

Wednesday 15 March '06

President A P J Abdul Kalam, on his way back to India after his two-nation tour, today said that he had taken up India’s concern over the detention of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi with Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe, and that the General had promised to confer with his officials and get back to him.

In Mauritius, keeping the India bond alive

Tuesday 14 March '06

It’s a simple tribute to the Indian immigrant. Just a raised structure with evocative footprints and a plaque that reads, “To honour the memory of those who left Indian shores and found a home in Mauritius.”

On Yangon streets, there’s little hope for Suu Kyi’s release

Monday 13 March '06

So tangible is the fear of the ruling Junta that the taxi driver warns against clicking pictures even from the moving car

Kalam offers India’s help to lift Mauritius economy

Monday 13 March '06

Some debts can never be repaid. More than 60 years ago, Sir S Ramgoolam, the Father of Mauritius...

Mauritius welcomes ‘family’

Sunday 12 March '06

He'd called it a close relative at the outset of his two-nation visit. Today, Mauritius received President APJ Abdul Kalam with the warmth reserved for a special older relation.

Yangon on way to democracy

Friday 10 March '06

President APJ Abdul Kalam today discussed the restoration of democracy in Myanmar with Senior General Than Shwe but did not bring up the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. The talks also featured increasing trade from $400 million to $1 billion besides cooperation in the energy sector.