India's mammoth biometrics-based identification project gets a thumbs up from the home ministry, even as inconvenient questions haunting aspects of data collection and control still hang fire Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
'Not many imagined that a young girl who hated the upper castes would go so far in politics. We did not take her seriously then,' remarks a local who has seen Mayawati's rise Sadiq Naqvi Delhi/Bijnor
Jayant Chaudhary might become a star in the Jat hinterland if he inherits Chaudhary Charan Singh's mass appeal, and chucks Ajit Singh's dubious shifts Akash Bisht Kheragarh (Agra)