Mohan Rawle, Shiv Sena's first ever Lok Sabha MP representing South Central Mumbai in Parliament for five terms until 2009, speaks to Sujata Anandan on Rahul Gandhi, BJP and sons of the soil policy.

Michael Chertoff, a former secretary of US Homeland Security, who led efforts to revamp US security after 9/11, has said India faces the challenge of transforming its bureaucracy to build a competent security apparatus capable of defeating terror threats in the wake of 26/11 Mumbai strikes, report Varghese K. George & Rahul Singh.

UTC president & chief executive officer Louis R Chenevert, who is set to take over as chairman in less than 50 days, spoke to Hindustan Times on the group’s plans for India.

‘Orthopadie’; ‘Bandagen’: I saw these two neon-lit signs from the window of my hotel room in Berlin. I thought of my father, an orthopaedic surgeon. I tried to imagine how it had been for him when, for five months in my childhood, we’d had to live apart, writes Soumya Bhattacharya.

The all-new Mamata Banerjee — softened by recent success and wizened by past failures — says it’s the people, and not her Trinamool Congress (TMC) who have taught the Left a lesson in humility. Banerjee is for preserving her ties with the Congress, to keep the Left out. Excerpts from an interview.

Maoism is prevalent in areas where there is a lack of spirituality said Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in an interview to Manoj Sharma.

Long ago, I have made peace with the fact that Mahesh (Bhupathi) is part of my karma, just like I am part of his. Whether we like it or not, we’ll be in each other’s face forever, says Leander Paes.

One has to pay the price for popularity and Pankaj Advani, the newly crowned World Professional Billiards champion, knows it just to well. For the sake of the sport, the 24-year-old Bangalorean is willing to go that extra mile to ensure that the baize game attracts enough attention to trigger a revival.