COVER STORY
Basher Al-Assad, Indo-Chinese cross-border study, Indian PoWs, Bamboo Shoots, Expedia & Gross Well-being Index
Outlook Magazine - 11 June 2007
Does the Constitution insist that presidents and governors be mindless dummies? Is it why so many hopefuls aspire for the job?
The author of <i>Reflections in the Sacred Pond</i>, which sets about to answer eighty questions on religious history in India.
A frontrunner, three new contenders. Who will be First Citizen?<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=207 target=_blank> Updates</a>
A dark, menacing brood from afar. But a trip to Jamia Hafsa gives our Islamabad correspondent a human, yet troubling close-up.
They look after the kids, and more. Indian au pairs are the new flavour in American homes.
Does the Constitution insist that presidents and governors be mindless dummies? Is it why so many hopefuls aspire for the job?
A survey on how the elite surf TV throws up some interesting facts
The author of <i>Reflections in the Sacred Pond</i>, which sets about to answer eighty questions on religious history in India.
TB rears its ugly head again, afflicting urban middle class youth
With virtually no quarantine laws, India can be an easy target for bio-terrorism
A frontrunner, three new contenders. Who will be First Citizen?<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=207 target=_blank> Updates</a>
A dark, menacing brood from afar. But a trip to Jamia Hafsa gives our Islamabad correspondent a human, yet troubling close-up.
They look after the kids, and more. Indian au pairs are the new flavour in American homes.
OTHER STORIES
The one and only thing that works in Cheeni Kum is the relationship between the 34-year-old heroine and the 64-year-old hero.
Shows no engagement with the politics of encounter killing, which is its core idea, but glorifies violence and machismo.
A homespun environmentalist defies craggy terrain to create an oasis of greenery
Haryanvi lads end their search with Payyannur's girls
The BJP is in a fix as the Gujjars turn violent on the ST issue<a href=pti_coverage.asp?gid=90 target=_blank> Updates</a>
Nehru's idea of economic socialism went as far back as 1936
The middle class, now way beyond old borders, has always sworn by education
Higher education must harness the private sector's energies wisely
Even in agricultural education, management rather than research is the area of interest for youngsters
A comet wiped the dinosaurs out 65 million years ago. Is one coming our way?
Why do top results-- in boards, JEE or UPSC-- matter to us so much?
Europe & Co talk weather, and mean business. Is it all for real?
What did we dismiss here which has been creating a huge buzz of gossip and speculation? Guess which new book has hit the bestseller lists? And what is Random House's lure?
These stories do not burst upon you with an eclat, for there's nothing to flaunt there, rather they sort of steal upon you, leaving you with a faint, almost elusive, shock of recognition.
This collection brings the best of a rare poetic sensibility to the issues that concern us. If there are poems that don't work or falter, the ones that do compensate well enough.
Witty, sarcastic, despairing, ecstatic, Kesavan looks at the genteel sport with a warm, old-world flair
An ancient temple with India's largest Shiva linga gets a facelift
Many top-scoring students are now opting for professional courses like healthcare, hotel management, fashion technology and mass communication.
Students now plump for courses that meet the industry's needs
This survey gives the highest weightage, 60 per cent, to objective parameters, and only 40 per cent for the perceptual ones.
A few private colleges are catching up but there is still a huge gap between the good, bad, and inevitably, the ugly.
Among engineering colleges, IIT Kharagpur represents one end of the spectrum.
India has world-class institutes like AIIMS, with a permanent faculty strength of 543, which published 1,220 research papers last year.
The clinical exposure in AIIMS is unmatched, as its adjoining 1,803-bed hospital treats 3.5 million patients every year.
Engineering and medicine still rule. But many top-scorers are looking at areas like hotel management, media, fashion, healthcare. The definitive annual <i>Outlook</i>-C<i>fore</i> college survey.
