India is to embark on an ambitious plan to provide each of its 1.1 billion-plus citizens with a national identity card and has picked an industrialist who helped to spearhead the country’s IT revolution to lead the project. Nandan Nilekani, the...

Today is the last day for residents of one of the last surviving ancient cities in China to claim a bonus for agreeing to move out to make way for the wrecking ball. After the offer expires, the only inducement may be force. Bulldozers are already...

Singapore’s civil servants are the most efficient among their Asian peers, a business survey on 12 economies released on Wednesday showed, but they tend to clam up unhelpfully when things go wrong. The island-state was ranked first for a third...

As she strolls through a park near her temporary home, Shen Lixiu glances warily at passers-by who may be listening in on her conversation. The 53-year-old mother of two from China’s eastern Jiangsu province appears no different from other park...

Dismissed by critics as a political greenhorn over a decade ago, Naveen Patnaik with his ‘Mr Clean’ image scripted history becoming chief minister for the third consecutive term after steering his BJD to a landslide victory in the assembly...

QUEST is a project conducted by The Indian Express in schools in and around Delhi. It covers more than 50 schools in Delhi and NCR. With Twenty20 being the flavour of the month, QUEST had invited articles by students of various member schools on the...

May 20 : He may have wallowed in luxury at the fag end of his underground life in Sri Lanka’s forested region, but there was a time when Velupillai Prabhakaran battled with hunger because he had no money to buy food. Those were the days when he was an...

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday conceded that its effort for a non-Congress, non-BJP Third Front was not accepted by the people in some States as a “credible and viable alternative” at the national level. “The Left...

Though the election fever has subsided, the regime of the Model Election Code of Conduct is set to continue till May 28, and heads of various government departments have expressed fears that this may put on hold developmental projects even beyond the...

WJubiliant with the outcome of parliamentary elections in India, Britain&aposs Indian- Muslim community today expressed their delight at BJP’s defeat while hailing Congress-led UPA’s victory for a consecutive term.