Sorry for the absence. Back today with a special report from the new newspaper of the India Today group, Mail Today. Here’s an interesting report by their defence correspondent Suman Sharma:It’s Testing Times for Akash AheadIT IS do or die…

The government has finally come on the record about the INS Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov) refurbishment programme at the Sevmash shipyard in North-Western Russia. A short, terse statement was provided by the Defence Minister to Parliament today. Here it is:”The…

Not that I'm trying to bring Nandigram onto this blog, but Mail Today, the new newspaper from the Indian Today Group was launched yesterday, and the first edition had a report by me from Nandigram. This is it.

Sorry for no posts for a few days. I’m in Kolkata — spent the last few days covering the stuff happening in Nandigram. Back in Delhi in a day or two, so posts continue then. It’s been a life-changing few…