Concerning the 1993 murders in Sathya Sai Baba's temple bedroom apartmentSEE ALSO TRANSCRIPT OF BBC INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER HOME MINISTER OF ANDHRA PRADESH - V.P. NAIR - ON THE MURDERS EPISODE, WITH SHORT VIDEO CLIP! (Click here)Two decades of

The Indian press repeatedly described events, as best they were able to investigate them through eye-witnesses who were too frightened to stand forth with their names. Literally hundreds of articles were written in all as the press tried to do

The recent attempt by the Financial Times to assess the 'transformation' of HR over the last 15 years starts off promisingly but never quite hits the mark. The title suggests something significant has happened but the sense you get is

This is a translation of this post from Hen Huang, Hen Baoli, which seems especially appropriate given upcoming anniversaries that, perhaps, aren't going to be accurately represented by government authorities.1 People in history can be fundamentally divided into two kinds:

The Washington Post reports on Timothy Geithner's visit to China: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner arrived in China this week seeking to reassure America's biggest creditor that its hundreds of billions of dollars of holdings in U.S. government debt

A worker in Wenchuan County, Sichuan, mixes cement in front of a billboard advertising new government-subsidized housing, by hunxue-er

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the nationwide, student-led democracy movement in China, and the subsequent June 4th military crackdown in Beijing. To commemorate the student movement, CDT is posting a series of original news articles from 1989, beginning

After having his blog shut down days before the Tiananmen anniversary, artist Ai Weiwei is back with a new blog here. 56minus1 blog notes that he also has a Twitter and Fanfou account:Ai Weiwei ( ) is now on Twitter

The private sector real estate players must reset their priorities so as to provide low-cost housing to the middle class and the poor. S Jaipal Reddey made the pint clear while taking charge of the urban ministry for the second

After struggling for months to sell large parts of its land bank to repay part of its debt, Bangalore-based Sobha Developers Ltd has changed tack. The realty firm is now scouting for joint developments and looking to sell smaller plots

The economic slowdown has brought greater rationality to real estate prices. With prices correcting in overheated pockets of metros and tier II cities, residential real estate has become more affordable and the scales have tilted in buyers' favour. While an

Credit rating agency CRISIL has started grading real estate valuers with the very first grading announced for a Mumbai based valuer. The grading of real estate valuers is expected to facilitate benchmarking for the valuers and also help banks, housing

Keen on matching supply with demand, real estate developers may spring up more than a hundred malls spread over 30-million sq ft in the country by end-2010, a report says. "Between now and 2010, an additional 31,846,504-square feet of mall

One of the Ivy League schools, Dartmouth has a new Korean president. His name is Jim Yong Kim.Personally, I have never heard of Korean American person being the president of a US school. This is great news! Watch the following

Asimo rules! The following video titled 'Japan: Robot Nation' was a fascinating documentary. Even though I knew most of the situation the journalist, Adam Yamaguchi, talked about in the video, it was still great to watch it. The video covers

I know some of the pictures are couple of months old. But these pics were never posted here so I am including them in this post. Besides, it's still Song Hye Gyo in Levi's photoshoot so it fits in this

COLOMBO: The LTTE had a master plan to encircle the entire Sri Lankan eastern coast, capture the Tri...

LONDON - More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final days of Sri Lankas military ope...

Colombo, The parents of the now dead Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran are in the "protectiv...

Colombo, The political wing leader of the LTTE womens force, who had crossed into the government-he...