Features

How the Rich and Famous Travel

Arindam Mukherjee

Wherever they go, they leave an impression. Sometimes on tour organisers’ minds, occasionally on hotel lawns

On the First Night, Resignation

Rahul Bhatia

“I have seen so much, I want to cry,” a storekeeper said from behind the metal barrier he’d pulled down after the blast

‘86% get HIV treatment because of Indian drugs’

Avantika Bhuyan

Michel Sidibé says UNAIDS aims to halve HIV transmission by 2015

Farewell to Arms

Rahul Pandita

If the Supreme Court wants SPOs in the state disarmed, what about other conflict zones?

Relook at Relocation

Jay Mazoomdaar

The environment ministry’s new draft guidelines have corrected some anomalies after Open’s investigation flagged key issues plaguing the relocation of 40,000 families from core tiger forests.

When Lawmakers Cower

Anil Budur Lulla

The last few elected representatives of Telangana need police cover after an ultimatum asks them to resign

Dummy Declarations

Dhirendra K Jha

The Telangana quitters of the Congress are merely using the party’s most overused attention-seeking device

General Benefits of the OBC Quota

MT Hany Babu

Percentages and other tricks that educational institutions use to hand over OBC seats to general category candidates

Air Waves of Another Kind

Alam Srinivas

While full-service airlines are in the red, low-cost carriers are in the black, and want to expand rapidly

Friendship, the Google Way

Rahul Bhatia

Google is playing the Pied Piper again with its new social networking platform, and its early converts are ready to bid adieu to Facebook. Not tearfully either