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Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras (R) reacts after his government got the confidence vote early on February 11, 2015. Greece's new leftist government fine-tuned a 10-point plan aimed at persuading its international creditors to reluctantly rethink their bailout terms and prevent the country from going bust. AFP PHOTO / Louisa Gouliamaki

Syriza’s triumph

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ plans to take Greece out of the stranglehold of austerity gain support ahead of the country’s negotiations with the Eur

‘Priority is to save Greece from total destruction’

Interview with Marina Prentoulis, a member of the five-member Coordinating Committee for Syriza in London.

A pro-independence 'yes' campaign poster, used in the run up to the Scottish independence referendum, lies discarded along with an empty bottle of single malt whisky in George Square in Glasgow, U.K., on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Scotland voted to remain in the U.K. after an independence referendum that put the future of the 307-year-old union on a knife edge and risked years of political and financial turmoil. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

‘Better together’

Scotland has chosen to remain with the United Kingdom despite a vigorous campaign for self-determination and self-rule by the Yes campaign whose promi

PARVATHI MENON,Recently in Scotland

Against caste in Europe

Anti-caste campaigners in the United Kingdom score a major victory with the E.U. passing a resolution to put caste within a global rights framework.

PARVATHI MENON in London

Troubled waters

In the absence of a water-sharing scheme, posturing and pressure tactics hold sway even as the Supreme Court assumes the role of the lead arbiter.

Sombre spring

The Japanese government and its various arms are trying to gain a grip on the crisis following the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Battles ahead

AIDWA's national conference in Kanpur highlights some of the issues facing the women's movement today.

Behind the vote

The BJP government in Karnataka wins the trust vote in the Assembly but loses people's trust.

The lid blewoff illegal mining in Orissa in 2009 after the opposition alleged that a Bihar-based company was illegally mining manganese ore in Keonjhar district. In the picture, the controversial mine near Rudukela.-LINGARAJ PANDA

POLITICAL CLOUT

THE hold of the mining lobby on politics and government is nowhere as unconcealed as it is in Karnataka, a State that occupies the fourth place in iro

Dancing girl INDUS VALLEY.-

Looking back

AN important component of Frontlines news agenda over the past 25 years has been coverage of history. Going well beyond a report-it-as-news approach t

Transforming Tibet

There is no evidence of impoverished, marginalised and excluded Tibetans in Lhasa or in any other part of Tibet.

A Musahar woman contestant campaigning for the panchayat elections at Jamsaut village in Bihar's Patna district in 2006.-PTI

Success stories, some setbacks

Reservation for women in panchayati raj institutions has yielded excellent results.