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
Vajpayee scores a qualified success—by clarifying his stand on the CTBT and resuming dialogue with Pakistan
The deluge of 'official' smut gives way to a mood of introspection
Nine years after the fatwa, a relieved Rushdie gains 'freedom'
From salacious chronicles of star lives, Magna now takes on Clintons sex life
A unique television crime show stumps outlaws on the run
The stockmarket is beginning to look up as experts speak of a turnaround
Vajpayee scores a qualified success—by clarifying his stand on the CTBT and resuming dialogue with Pakistan
A murky harassment case casts a shadow on the chief minister
OTHER STORIES
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.
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
Mustard-producing villages in Rajasthan are badly hit by the ban
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
The dropsy toll includes a Rs 10,000 crore edible oil industry
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
...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
Lady cops move over. It's a different chase these Miss Marples are on to.
The five old men who decide the fortunes of Indian cricketers have little field experience
How an enviable pool of talent has been negated with shortsighted selection shenanigans
72% Say Bihar Merits President's Rule
Many Bihar employees haven't been paid salaries for years
He may be an RSS man but the Bihar governor has a mind of his own
In soothing one ally, the BJP coalition now risks alienating the rest with its Bihar gamble
The BJP plays the Article 356 card—and walks into a constitutional landmine
Titanic's Rose resurfaces in Delhi for the shooting of 'Holy Smoke'
Interesting, though patchy
Poetry of resonant images
A diplomat recalls a multi-hued career, in black and white
Checkpoint Charlie, Vasco Da Gama, the Ottoman empire...it's an excursion through history for the presidential entourage, writes Sagarika Ghose.