| STATES: MADHYA PRADESH |
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STATES: KERALA |
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| Hope Takes Wing |
Red Corner Notice |
Leaving
nothing to chance, Uma Bharati begins a blistering poll campaign.
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Fearful
of Karunakaran tying up with the LDF, the Congress leadership
overlooks his acts of defiance.
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| STATES: UTTAR PRADESH |
THE WORLD: US POLICY |
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| Untamed Shrew |
The World According
to Bush |
With a legal
assault on Mulayam, a political assault on the BJP and an ideological
assault on caste Hindus, Mayawati is rampant as ever.
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As the aggressive
US leader battles for 'good over evil' pre-emptive strikes are
in and old alliances are being recast. The simplicity is both
appealing and frightening.
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| THE WORLD: SCENE IN BAGHDAD |
THE WORLD: TIKRIT'S FALL |
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| Scars and Stripes |
The Battle That Never
Was |
America's
victory is tinged with troubling instances of its insensitivity.
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The dictator's
home town capitulated without much resistance. But the 'liberated'
Tikritis do not think too much of American occupation.
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| LETTERS |
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EDITORIAL |
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From
The Editor In Chief
To The Editor
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The
Disinvestment Sham
To make India an economic power, this Government has to
change its mindset |
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| OTHER STORIES |
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| ECONOMY: IT SLOWDOWN |
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BUSINESS: TOBACCO BILL
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| What
Goes Up... |
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Smoked
Out |
The bloodbath
in IT share prices on the stock market indicates something grimmer—the
days of fantastic profit growth are probably gone forever.
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The controversial
bill places a blanket ban on tobacco advertising but it may
prove ineffective in curbing bidi and chewing tobacco consumption.
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| HEALTH: SARS EPIDEMIC |
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INTERVIEW: CHANDRIKA KUMARATUNGE |
| The
Dread Alert |
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"Relations
with my prime minister are horrendous" |
The SARS virus
arrives in India but the case remains shrouded in confusion
and contradictions.
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"At nine
cabinet meetings organised by Wickremesinghe I was abused by
ministers. They thought I would run away but I didn't."
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| LAW: DEATH PENALTY |
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MEDIA: TV CHANNELS |
| Hung
Verdict |
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The
New Face of News |
In recommending
that lethal injection replace hanging, the Law Commission wants
to humanise the implementation of the death sentence.
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Ten news channels,
five of them launched within the past month. Over 200 hours
of news a day. Will the viewer watch it all?
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| MUSIC: THUMRI |
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CINEMA: SEX IN FILMS |
| Fading
Melodies |
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Strip
At Ease |
With few patrons,
fewer practitioners and more prejudices against it, the thumri
is fast losing its voice
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Skin and soft
porn. Jism gives filmmakers a new mantra to keep the cash registers
ringing.
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| OFFTRACK: PATNA, BIHAR |
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WILDLIFE: LEOPARDS |
| Saddam
Surfeit |
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Sugar
Cane Cats |
His 1991 battle
made his the name of choice for newborns
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The country's
largest wildlife relocation programme transports leopards to
the wild from an unlikely habitat—the cane fields
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CURRENT ISSUE APRIL 28, 2003
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