The director of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, and principal scientific investigator of the data Chandrayaan-I brought to earth, Jitendranath Goswami, told Sanjib Kr Baruah in an e-mail interview that the most significant finding was water on the Moon's north pole.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has made every individual taxpayer richer by at least a few thousand rupees a month, hoping they would oblige by spending more and spur demand and growth. Mukherjee, who said “it has been a long three days,” after presenting the UPA government’s second budget on Friday, spoke to Hindustan Times on a range of issues.

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.