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Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas
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10 Questions
Presiding over the ITC meet, the AAFI chief charts the future of Indian athletics
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Cover Story
In eclipse after the Bombay blasts, the D Company's business is booming again. Its LTTE-aided narcotics and arms network now spans the globe. Ajith Pillai and Charu Lata Joshi report from Mumbai.
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Andhra Pradesh
Vizag's Black Sunday revives the disturbing question of safety, courtesy HPCL's costly oversight
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Anti-Corruption Cell
The man in charge says he only handles tourism. So is the special cell in the PMO a stillborn?
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Assam
A banned outfit fights for its rights in the jungles of Assam
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Bangalore
A misunderstanding over a plot foments communal tension
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Congress
Gujarat needs attention but Kesri first seeks to tame a rising star
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Opinion
When you can't solve a problem, get yourself a scapegoat like Tata Tea
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Profiles
Mother Teresa's successor has a tough act to follow. But Sister Nirmala is living up to it.
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Redressal
When even Rs 17.5 lakh isn't compensation enough
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Spotlight
In battles of deadly accuracy, Maharashtra's women cops do their bit to clean up the underworld
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Uttar Pradesh
As the chief minister changes, bureaucrats try frantically to preserve their investments in postings
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Britain
If Gallup polls are gospel, the House of Windsor may be forced to adopt the European model
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China
The 15th communist congress tries to reconcile economic reforms with tightfisted party control
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Indo-Pak Talks
The third round of secretary-level discussion ends in failure; now the scene shifts to New York
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Nepal
Kathmandu is taking tentative steps on revising the 1950 treaty
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Aviation
A draft policy prescribes a lesser government role in AI and IA
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Cellphones
Cellphone operators clamour for a raise in monthly rentals
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Focus
The heat of investigation now turns on the younger Chhabria
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Interview
In a brief stopover in India last week, controversial NRI industrialist S.P. Hinduja speaks his mind on a whole host of issues:
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Maruti
Suzuki goes to court over Bhaskarudu's appointment
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Policy
China adjusts its thinking to the realities of a market economy. The Indian Left ponders...
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Tea Industry
Life in terrorism-ridden Assam was bad enough. With a hostile state, the tea leaves bode more ill.
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Academics
Low brow, anti-elite Indipop is the hot new subject
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Cricket
A new-look Indian team strikes pay dirt on an atrocious pitch
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Cinema
AIDS becomes the focus of four new film projects in Bollywood
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Review
An informative but outdated culture tour of a living dance form
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Review
The evolution of the press in a nation at war with itself
Ethan Casey on Cambodia Silenced: The Press Under Six Regimes By Harish C. Mehta
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Review
Vapid, overtly feminist fiction
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