M K Bhadrakumar on what the US and India should do to stabilise Afghanistan and rein in rogue elements in Pakistan.

The Indian security set-up should look at the way the American security is organised and learn from it, says Brigadier S K Chatterji.

According to senior Congress leader Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury, "It will be a mistake to consider that it was the BJP that created the disturbance. The Communist Party of India-Marxist worked in collusion with the saffron brigade to throw life out

Many have tried unsuccessfully to recreate the magic of the classic film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.

When it comes to climate, change and promise may only be in the eyes of the beholder.

China's trade has zoomed despite doomsday predictions about the impact of WTO accession, but there are concerns.

In India, there is a perception that the current ecological disaster is a responsibility of the developed world. If we want to play in the big league we must stop seeing ecological solutions as impositions, say Vikram Sood and Nandita

Sir, my only purpose has been to open up windows of flexibility for India because the world is changing; different countries are taking different positions."

In fact, a research conducted by Jupiter in 2008 estimates the cumulative effect of downloading to result in losses in 2012 around £1.1 billion.

The best way to understand the happenings in Pak-Af is to see it as a second jihad. The first jihad was fought between the Soviet Union and Af-Pak combine. Once the Soviets were out of Afghanistan, the US was content