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CURRENT ISSUE NOVEMBER 03, 2003

COVER STORY: CRIME

Getting Dawood

As the US cracks down on India's most wanted criminal, only a systematic global campaign that puts pressure on Pakistan and the Emirates can dismantle the D Company's evil syndicate.


	Pak hails India's peace offer, but still wary

	Human trafficking - Daler demands CBI inquiry

	Cyclone alerted in Orissa's south coastal areas

	Gogoi urges militants to shun violence and talk

	Rescue on for 13 trapped in Russia's flooded mine

	Reliance faces penalty for mobility services

	HDFC, Reliance tie up for mobile banking

	Austrian Air to operate Delhi-Vienna flight daily

	Bopanna, Amritraj bag India's 2nd gold at AAG

	Paes can practice, to play Aussie Open on Jan 5

There has been a spate of rape incidents in the past few weeks. What should be society's role in preventing this heinous crime?


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WEB ONLY FEATURES


As "Georgians" step up their movement to restore the prestige of the 98-year-old King George's Medical College, India Today's Farzand Ahmed looks at the penchant of politicians for renaming districts and institutions in Uttar Pradesh. NAME GAME

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OTHER STORIES

THE NATION: KASHMIR \| TALKS			STATES: OPINION POLL
Back to the Table			Vote for Governance
Delhi's offer of talks with the Hurriyat ahead of polls in five states addresses both domestic and international compulsions.			The India Today-Aaj Tak Org-Marg opinion poll on four of the five states soon to go to elections shows interesting drifts...
NEIGHBOURS: INDIA-PAKISTAN			BUSINESS & ECONOMY: E-COMMERCE
Killing with Kindness			Towards Net Profit
India rescues the bilateral peace enterprise from the doldrums as the Government infuses fresh life into a slew of proposals.			Finally, the consumer is logging on to shop on the Net. Thanks to improved security, growing Internet access and the evolution of cash-on-delivery payment, he has overcome his initial inhibitions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY: CELL PHONES			CRIME: RAPE
The Growth Game			Victims of The Law
As mobile gaming catches on among cell-phone users, service providers are rushing to grab this new source of income.			The spate of recent rapes in the capital exposes the brutal truth that laws and attitude towards sexual crimes only encourage the perpetrators
SOCIETY & THE ARTS: LIFESTYLE			SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOLLYWOOD
New World of Guppies			Hitting his Stride
Meet the globally mobile citizens of Gurgaon, the newest subspecies of the yuppies, who are creating a city within a city in a maze of malls.			It is a complete metamorphosis. The arrogant dilettante of the early 1990s is suddenly sure of his talent and targets.
SOCIETY & THE ARTS: MUSIC
Gateway to Melody
It was a meeting of maestros at the India Today Group's annual musical extravaganza. A photo feature on the event.

YOUR WEEK: NEW AGE & PERSONAL GROWTH
Track Your Dreams, Know Your Future

INDIASCOPE

TREMORS

VIS-A-VIS FIELD OF VISION Frog who Lived with Dinosaurs

THE BUZZ OF THE WEEK

Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh is to author a book on the elections in Jammu & Kashmir and Gujarat, and there are plenty of politicians and bureaucrats who are already getting nervous.

REGULARS

SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS			SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
The Broken Canvas			Rage of Memory
A glossy delineation of Indian art and its attempts to construct the national modern			A return journey to the cries and confusion of an urban childhood
SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS			OFFTRACK: FEROZABAD \| UTTAR PRADESH
Intimately Ghalib			For God's Sake
With a glass of wine in one hand and a basket of mangoes in the other, his sharp wit and sensitivity intact, the poet comes home			The mission: inculcating love for God. The modus operandi: retrieving pictures of Gods from garbage dumps. Baba Sonpal has led his one-man crusade for nearly 40 years now.

METRO TODAY

EYECATCHERS

Model Miss; A Small Matter; Mr Universe; The Rising of the Mutinous Khan

NRI DIARY


While dual citizenship and other promises are yet to materialise, the Government is preparing in full steam for the next NRI day with a focus on youth and the Gulf Indians.			Bumper Draw A Quest For Cures Travel In The News