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CURRENT ISSUE JUNE 09, 2003
COVER STORY: WATER
Thirsty
India
Water
is now the No. 1 problem in urban India as seen in Aurangabad
in Maharashtra. Three crore pepole, or every third person
in the state, today depend on tankers for their daily
supply.
Week
ending May 24- Inflation falls by 0.25% to
5.65%
Flying
target- Hizbollah shoots at Israeli warplanes
over Lebanon
National
Conference leader quits party, joins Congress
In
the net- 40 kg poppy husk seized, 1 arrested
in Delhi
Power
drive- Fiat India to launch 'Siena diesel'
soon
RBI
permits ICICI, IDBI to collect taxes on behalf
of govt
Two
shepherds killed, two kidnapped by militants
in Jammu's Kathua district
India
beat Australia 5-3 in final of second leg
at Sydney
Advani arrives in New York on week-long tour
Australian tourist dies of heatstroke on train
to Varanasi
Veteran
Congressman V.C. Shukla's decision to leave the party and join
the NCP is unlikely to give Chief Minister Aji Jogi sleepless
nights. India Today's Neeraj Mishra explains why. LONELY
REBELLION
Kill
the Quota Reservation has become a huge political enterprise. The
victim is India.
OTHER STORIES
STATES: MAHARASHTRA
STATES: CHHATTISGARH
No Rooms To Let
Capital Expense
Ministers
in the state's jumbo cabinet fight for office space in an overcrowded
secretariat. The unlucky ones devise novel ways to get their
own workplaces.
Ajit Jogi
goes ahead with a Rs. 20,000-crore project to build a new capital
city over 30 years.
STATES: WEST BENGAL
CRIME: LUCKNOW MURDER
Biting
the Bullet
Crimes
of Omission
The Congress
has found a champion in a former Naxalite to take the mighty
Left Front.
A month after
Madhumita Shukla's murder, investigating agencies ignore critical
evidence, even as the case gets curouser and curiouser.
NEIGHBOURS: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS
DIPLOMACY: PEACEKEEPING
Moving
the Peace Bus
On
Standby
Vajpayee gets
the radshow rolling but block remain.
Political
considerations force India to mull over sending troops to Iraq
despite America's keenness that it does so
BUSINESS: CONSUMER
ENVIRONMENT: HOUSE SPARROW
Urge
to Splurge
Common
No More
Uninhibited
spending, living on credit and changing products faster than
ever, the Indian middle-class has moved from functional living
to a lifestyle of fulfilment. An exclusive survey brings out
the difining changes in spending habits.
Pesticides,
urbanisation, lead-free fuel, mobile phones, cates could all
be drastically reducing the population of the sparrow.
SOCIETY: AND TRENDS
CINEMA: DESIGNERS
Groom
Showroom
Gross
Gloss
Marriages
may be made in heaven but grooms have always been on sale. And
now their price tags have become bigger, bolder and flashier.
Trapped in
the over-embellished world of make-believe, Bollywood style
meisters try to overcome creator's block.
OFFTRACK: CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU
Taking
Centre Stage
Spurned by
society, a eunuch finds solace in Bharatnatyam.
"When did the Lahore bus service become my
bus? But this time, the bus will not break down."
ATAL BIHAR VAJPAYEE, prime minister, on the resumption
of the Lahore bus service
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