COVER STORY
Given the director's track record, Umrao Jann II may never see the light of day
Outlook Magazine - 18 June 1997
Shiromani Gurdwara Parabandhak Committee (SGPC) president and senior Akali leader Gurcharan Singh Tohra has come out openly against the BJP-a coalition partner in the Prakash Singh Badal government. While Badal is still trying to coddle the BJP, Tohr
Akali and BJP leaders try to gloss over differences on issues like human rights and Sikh 'martyrs'
To check CRB-like scams, the government now suggests a host of measures. But are they viable?
B.K. Bhasin, director, Health, Safety, Environment and Public Awareness, NPC, defends the VVER reactor buy as a 'dream' deal. An interview with Saira Menezes:
Confusion reigns as the AIADMK rebels 'expel' Jayalalitha
The Saudia jet that blundered onto an IAF base finally escapes
Shiromani Gurdwara Parabandhak Committee (SGPC) president and senior Akali leader Gurcharan Singh Tohra has come out openly against the BJP-a coalition partner in the Prakash Singh Badal government. While Badal is still trying to coddle the BJP, Tohr
Akali and BJP leaders try to gloss over differences on issues like human rights and Sikh 'martyrs'
To check CRB-like scams, the government now suggests a host of measures. But are they viable?
The hip and happening discover a dangerous, new way to live it up
Tea garden turn into profit centres, losing the old would charm
B.K. Bhasin, director, Health, Safety, Environment and Public Awareness, NPC, defends the VVER reactor buy as a 'dream' deal. An interview with Saira Menezes:
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US curbs on high-tech exports to India will affect space research; Indian firms aim to fight back
Jospin has to strike a balance between Europe and the economy
Capital account convertibility by the year 2000 hinges on a set on ambitious preconditions
Cleaning the system is never easy, but a beginning has to be made somewhere
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For Gujral,authority is best asserted quietly, even covertly
Consensus, transparency, success… the precedents for Gujral span the gamut
Some say his style is the triumph of consensual democracy.Or is he neutral to a fault, to the point of abdicating his responsibility?
Hindu, Muslim and Sikh leaders accept the notion of Partition; Mountbatten picks August 15 on a whim; and Jinnah gets a 'moth-eaten' Pakistan
CBI director Joginder Singh speaks to <i>Outlook</i> on the spate of legal reverses the agency has suffered recently. Excepts:
After the hawala and St Kitts acquittals, the CBI is in the dock
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Panic grips the nascent industry as the proposed Broadcasting Bill talks though
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Letters to the editor are the victory of sense over soundbite
An honest travelogue: across a past enveloped by the present
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Chances of peace recede as the politico-ethnic divide deepens
Kish Bandhopadyaya, executive personal assistant to Ketan Somaiya, on the takeover talks in progress. Exclusive from London:
The search is on for a buyer who can take up a large share of the Big B's troubled company.