Buy it, consume it, forget it. Who wants to know what games food plays once down the gullet, so long as it satisfies your palate and pangs? No thinking about food, ergo no modern myths. Yet, there are still many homes where traditional food myths sur

Vegetables and fibre are in, processed foods are out

Overfed yet malnourished, palate-pampered yet bulimic, an entire generation of urban Indians is launching a system-starving assault on health

Asked to pay back what it extracted as excess levy from consumers, the RPG-run body sends an SOS to Jyoti Basu

The jumbo UP ministry, and the bickering, unite UF factions

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi flags off his dream project, Samathuvapuram—villages of harmony

The Sena launches the Asmita yatra to woo Hindu Dalits

Sweeping amendments finally liberate Doordarshan and AIR

The chief minister explains why he's off the bottle

To survive, chief minister Parikh has too many people to please

The right to 'celebrate as we please' comes into conflict with the wrongs of poverty and pollution

BJP top brass find it difficult to defend Kalyan's jumbo cabinet

Jiang plays down human rights, signs a huge nuclear deal

The British high commissioner's unorthodox style of diplomacy once again ruffles Indian feathers

Sharif staves off a constitutional crisis by giving in to the judiciary. But why did he pick a fight?

NOTHING can be more ludicrous than the sight of a head of diplomatic mission demanding a public assurance from the prime minister of his host country that he will not be sent packing home.

The less developed nations find a leader in the Indian PM

Last week's market mayhem across the world—from Hong Kong to Johannesburg—should serve as a chilling warning to India about the flip side of globalisation

He's a man who knows his metal. Lord Raj Kumar Bagri, chairman of the London Metal Exchange,uses his ken well.

Powertel's Net crusaders spin a Web that goes beyond cybercafes

Overall economic recession forces a nightmarish detour in the automobile sector's boom path

Kathmandu emerges as a weekend jaunt as casinos lay it out

3,500 NGOs are blacklisted for milking a dairy project of crores

Forget soaps. Current affairs is in. So everyone wants to climb on to the News bandwagon.

The former India manager takes on Indias cricketing establishment

Nabobs, ghosts and Brit ghouls

An honest account of the contradictions in India's Lanka mission

From above the middles path

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news