Nuclear war is unthinkable. But last week, after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's aggressive speech, the unthinkable had suddenly become thinkable. The prospect of a nuclear exchange
between India and Pakistan has drawn global attention and concern. The mushroom cloud could be looming larger than the people of the two country imagine.
An indepth look at the horrific scenario that is likely
to emerge in the event of Pakistan exercising its
nuclear option.

Kashmir terrorism now tops the global agenda but India needs to ensure it falls short of mediation.

President Musharraf's unrelenting stand against India is in conflict with the
Bush doctrine.
 

Laloo Prasad Yadav's army of raiders ensures his daughter's wedding is not forgotten easily.

Political interference, pliable managements and lax regulation have turned cooperative banks into sitting targets for scamsters.

The development of a completely reversible contraceptive for men promises to be a trailblazer in the future of birth control.

Time for other worldly concerns to take
a back seat and to watch men
make magic.

India's absence from the World Cup hasn't deterred some fans from making the dream trip to Japan and Korea.

A group fancies India's chances at the 2010 football World Cup.

A golden jubilee coronation celebration in Jodhpur, full of pomp and pageantry, relives the halcyon days of Indian royalty.

Bored with Bollywood this summer? Don't be. Assembly-line filmmaking may soon
become history.

Kashmiri Muslims as a second front against India? Musharraf is wrong.

The bill for transparency in the funding of political parties is pending but the Congress is building a kosher money corpus.

Nothing, not even terrorist threats,
seems to wake up our slumbering bureaucrats.

Former minister Arun Singh is back again as security adviser in the Ministry of External Affairs.

The Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala on tackling the farmers' agitation

Ruskin Bond as the perpetual adolescent of the hills.

Aman Verma , Peter Rueckert , Tanisha, Pooja Bhatt

Asian women seeking roles in films find it hard to escape the stereotyping. But the success of some may bring in change.

India Calling

 Fear of a Fallout
Matter of Survival
For a Tranquil Time
Interview: Firoz A. Nadiadwala
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