COVER STORY
The state electricity board is in the red, but Basu does little to make RPG-owned CESC pay its dues
Outlook Magazine - 5 October 1998
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Vajpayee scores a qualified success—by clarifying his stand on the CTBT and resuming dialogue with Pakistan
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The deluge of 'official' smut gives way to a mood of introspection
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Nine years after the fatwa, a relieved Rushdie gains 'freedom'
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From salacious chronicles of star lives, Magna now takes on Clintons sex life
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A unique television crime show stumps outlaws on the run
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The stockmarket is beginning to look up as experts speak of a turnaround
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Vajpayee scores a qualified success—by clarifying his stand on the CTBT and resuming dialogue with Pakistan
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A murky harassment case casts a shadow on the chief minister
OTHER STORIES
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She is no victim, though Monica is mired in notoriety of her own making. She is about to parlay her 10 assignations into a lucrative prime-time confession session with Oprah Winfrey.
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True, no one has betrayed the trust of the people like Laloo and Co. But the Supreme Court has laid down that except when a state government refuses to heed Central directives, only the people who elected it have the right to punish it. And Rabri has
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Mustard-producing villages in Rajasthan are badly hit by the ban
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As the man who revolutionised the Indian edible oil sector, Verghese Kurien, chairman, NDDB, is deeply worried today about the possible long-term repercussions of the dropsy scare. Repercussions which may take the country several steps back from its
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The dropsy toll includes a Rs 10,000 crore edible oil industry
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The US decision to impose economic sanctions on India was incorrect, feels Richard N. Haass, director of foreign policy studies at the powerful Washington DC-based think-tank Brookings Institution, and co-chairman of the independent task force on pos
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...the devastation. A macabre equation is evident as the aftermath of the worst floods in living memory sets in: the decrease in water levels has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in misery. An epidemic is looming, food is scarce and livel
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Lady cops move over. It's a different chase these Miss Marples are on to.
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The five old men who decide the fortunes of Indian cricketers have little field experience
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How an enviable pool of talent has been negated with shortsighted selection shenanigans
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72% Say Bihar Merits President's Rule
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Many Bihar employees haven't been paid salaries for years
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He may be an RSS man but the Bihar governor has a mind of his own
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In soothing one ally, the BJP coalition now risks alienating the rest with its Bihar gamble
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The BJP plays the Article 356 card—and walks into a constitutional landmine
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Titanic's Rose resurfaces in Delhi for the shooting of 'Holy Smoke'
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Interesting, though patchy
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Poetry of resonant images
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A diplomat recalls a multi-hued career, in black and white
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Checkpoint Charlie, Vasco Da Gama, the Ottoman empire...it's an excursion through history for the presidential entourage, writes Sagarika Ghose.