Anita Goel is enthralled by motor and not the kind that resides under the lid of your car. But the molecular motors that stick along strands of DNA, reading and replicating genetic information. They are the motors of life itself. Goel, a 29 year-old researcher in the physics department at Harvard, hopes to learn how these nanoscopic machines work.

Stretching from Ledo in Assam to Kunming in southern China via Myitkyina in Myanmar, the Stilwell Road connects India's northeastern states with China's southern province of Yunnan. Reopening of the road link can transform the economy of Northeast India by reducing the time, cost and distance involved in trade with China and Southeast Asia.

Elections are considered the heart of any political process since they signify democracy in practice. As the six-year term of the current J & K State Legislative Assembly comes to an end in October 2008, the state readies itself for the upcoming assembly elections to be held most likely during the period between August and September this year.

Issues: Some of the challenges faced by villagers across India are water and energy shortages, poverty, limited livelihood choices, poor sanitation, inadequate access to medical care, illiteracy, social challenges (women's empowerment, alcoholism, domestic violence, and caste tensions), panchayat governance.

On January 20, India and Israel successfully forged a partnership in the space sector when an Israeli spy satellite was launched into space by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The Techsar satellite was launched from the Sriharikota space station in southern India.

With the nation's development, rural India is growing increasingly TV-savvy. A problem incurred by this lies in the fact that the portrayals of the Western world and urban India seen in television programs paint pictures quite different from their realities.

Naxalism is a grave problem in Bihar. According to a March 2007 document of the Bihar Police, 30 of its 38 districts have been affected by Maoist activities. Maoist violence is endemic across the state's territory.

Nanak Kohli is not known as the 'Rolls Royce of Sikhs' for nothing. He is the founder of a multinational company into everything from telecom to trading. But after having spent much of his time making money, the NRI billionaire faced a dilemma: "My income is increasing while my needs are diminishing.

The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) recently reported that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. This not only shifts the ground on which India erected its policy of distance from Teheran when it voted with the US against Iran in September 2005 in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but also provides a policy space to rejuvenate its relations with Iran.