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India Today
June 8, 1998

Bang for Bang
Pakistan conducts nuclear tests and claims it has evened the score. For its part, India calls for a global convention on nuclear weapons. Can this situation be transformed into an opportunity for comprehensive disarmament? Or will the arms race intensify?

Ready to Pounce
The BJP's aggressive stance has forced the Congress to review its earlier resolve to sit it out in the Opposition.

Let There Be Land
The Government hopes to boost the real estate industry and release land for housing by introducing a slew of fiscal incentives alongside legislative changes.

Going ... Going ... Gone
As the chief of the Central Vigilance Committee resigns, the Centre clears the deck for an Supreme Court-induced revamp.

Shame and Horror
A gangrape victim's fresh ordeal shocks the state, as her tormentors go scot-free.

Touch and Go
The crisis in the AGP Ministry may have blown over for now, but the dissidents plan to mount another attack after assembly by-elections.

Crony Communism
With Jyoti Basu no longer seen as infallible, undue favours dispensed to friends could land him in trouble.

In a Limbo
The Uttar Pradesh CM fails to take action on the planetarium scam report.

Bridge That Gap
The usually subdued Economic Survey sets a fast, practical pace for economic growth and reforms.

Race Course Road by Prabhu Chawla
The Usual Suspects by Swapan Dasgupta
Mani Talk by Mani Shankar Aiyar
Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Flipside by Dilip Bobb
Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh

One Vow Too Many
Deterred by the hard life, an increasing number of Kerala youth choose not to be priests and nuns.

Bitter Friends
Spoilsport Daughter
Titanic Escape
Plan of Inaction
Ominous Start
Bottled Solution
In a Photo-fix
Fall of a Rising Star
Shady Case
Tough Act

The Melody Man
An era of film music comes to a premature end with the death of Lakmikant Kudalkar.

Harvest of Death
Impoverished farmers switch to lucrative cash crops, little realising this will trap them in a cycle of crop-failure and debt.