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27-05-200650 STORIES

C. Rangarajan addressing the 30th Skoch Summit in New Delhi on September 18.-RAMESH SHARMA

Little risk, higher return

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Mitt Romney speaks on health care in Washington, D.C.-CHARLES DHARAPAK/AP

Hardly a model

R.N. Malhotra, former RBI Governor.-

Malhotra recommendations

Amanullah Khan: It is a myth that an FDI hike will benefit policy holders.-G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR

United in opposition

The ism in journalism

TELEVISION: Digital dilemma

A PROTEST by members of the National Association of Street Vendors of India, in New Delhi in May.-V.V. KRISHNAN

Pension insecurity

NATURAL RESOURCES: Supreme Court's opinion

Jaiwanth Pathalia. He has been trying to organise diamond workers.-

For a forum

POSTERS CALLING for the release of the Cuban Five in Washington, D.C.-CHIP SOMODEVILLA/AFP

Enemy, still

The second stage of diamond sorting. From here the diamonds go for cutting and polishing.-

Hard choices

Shadman Chowk, now renamed Bhagat Singh Chowk. It was built at the site of the gallows of the historic jail of Lahore where Bhagat Singh (below) and his comrades were hanged.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Down Bhagat Singh lane

Battling sanctions

Colossal Maitreya relief, Kartse, circa 7th century.The earliest colossal Buddhas were seen in the Kanheri and Ajanta caves, in the 5th-6th centuries. This is a tradition that became very popular in the Himalayan regions and in Central Asiaand China.-

A SACRED PLAN FOR PEACE WITHIN

Government 1, Nasheed 0

Bo Xilai.-LIU JIN/AFP

Out of the party

The Shivanasamudra waterfalls near Mysore.-M. A. SRIRAM

Mysore kaleidoscope

YASHWANT SINHA. He headed the standing committee that rejected the proposal for 49 per cent FDI in insurance.-V.V. KRISHNAN

Missing consensus

A view of the Life Insurance Corporation building, with 13 floors and two basement floors, on Mount Road in Madras when it was inaugurated in 1959. Three years earlier, the life insurance sector had been nationalised.-THE HINDU ARCHIVES

Importing risk into insurance

Troubled waters

S. Nambi Narayanan.-S. GOPAKUMAR

ISRO SPY CASE: A battle half won

Campaign diary

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat addressing Kudumbashree members in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram on October 7.-S. MAHINSHA

KERALA: Womens power

President Hugo Chavezat a campaign rally in Valencia. He won convincingly with 54 per cent of the vote.-RODRIGO ABD/AP

Chavismo works

As of October 6, several supply channels in the delta region continued to remain dry even after the release of water. Here, a scene at Thekkur village in Thanjavur district.-M. SRINATH

Delta in distress

A diamond merchant examines a polished stone.-ARKO DATTA/REUTERS

Rough cuts

Substantive equality

Malala Yousufzai.-HAZART ALI BACHA/REUTERS

Taliban targets young activist

P. Chidambaram, the then Union Minister for Home, with the 61st batch of IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad on November 6, 2009. To his left is K. Vijay Kumar, the then Director of the academy.-P.V. SIVAKUMAR

Police complaint

Eric Hobsbawm in September 2012 at his residence in London.-AP

In Marxist tradition

Bidzina Ivanishvili and President Mikheil Saakashvilli.-

Georgians vote for change

Novel as debate

At a Mcdonald's restaurant in Noida, near New Delhi. A file photograph. The explosion in the food industry across the world is clearly based on commercial considerations and rapidly generates cultural changes.-PANKAJ NANGIA/BLOOMBERG

Fast-food world

A right to insult

The Amba Vilas Palace, the venue for most of the Dasara festivities.-G P SAMPATH KUMAR

The Dasara jamboree

Eric Hobsbawam, when he visited New Delhi on December 14, 2004.-ANU PUSHKARNA

Age of Hobsbawm

A power station of the Punatsangchhu hydroelectric project in Wangdue.-ADEEL HALIM/BLOOMBERG

Power from rivers

Mono Lake in California. In 2010, scientists reported that some bacteria taken from the lake could thrive on arsenic instead of the usual elements needed to sustain life.-AP

Science & Technology

Biased Bacteria

The cryostat with a large number of openings.-

Science & Technology

Vacuum vessel

Molecular cloud on the verge of star formation.-

Science & Technology

Stellar reservoir

The Paro airport with the Paro river in the foreground. Drukair Corporation is a wholly owned company of Druk Holding & Investments.-

Global goals

Living through a crisis

The Tashichho dzong (fortress) in Thimphu. In the kingdom, there are more than 2,000 monasteries and many imposing dzongs.-

Hidden gem

Groping in the dark

John B. Gurdon of the United Kingdom.-JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP

Science & Technology

Understanding cells

A Drukair plane on the Paro airport runway. Drukair, Bhutan's national airline, began operations in 1983.-

Flying high

Black silicon solar cellscan absorb nearly all of the sunlight that hits them.-

Science & Technology

Black silicon solar cells

MAHMUD HAMS/AFP

Muslim protest

SUNIL B. MITTAL of Bharti and Les Owen of Axa Asia Pacific Holdings after signing the agreement.-KAMAL NARANG

Insurance Sector

Premium on trust

The public sector continues to dominate the insurance market in terms of penetration and outreach and it is certainly far ahead of the private players

Managers who mattered

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