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 CURRENT ISSUE NOVEMBER 10, 2003

COVER STORY: FEMALE FOETICIDE

   

Missing Girl Child




Rampant misuse of modern technology, a collective failure of medical ethics and an inability to shed notions of a male heir have pushed female foeticide in affluent India to a shocking high.

J-K govt moves to Jammu amid tight security
Tandoor murder verdict to be pronounced today
1 Hizb militant gunned down in Doda distt
Vajpayee rebuffs 'hostile' Pak policy
Chomsky, Mandela to attend Mumbai meet in Jan
Govt may tap oil PSUs, banks to shore up fiscal
IPOs worth Rs 22k cr set to run with bulls
UK's Max Medical to buy 20% stake in Advik Labs
Doctor - Ganguly fit to play for Nov 12 ODI
Anand reaches last 16 stage of Corsica Masters
 
 
 
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The naxalite attack on a police station in Bastar was meant to demonstrate the ability of the dalams to impact elections. But will they, asks India Today's Neeraj Mishra.
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THE NATION: POTA     INTERVIEW: ARUN SHOURIE
Blunting The Edge     It is a free country...
With the new POTA ordinance empowering the review panels to overrule even the state governments, the Centre has finally found a way to make defiant chief ministers fall in line.
   

When the chinese coined the phrase "May you live in interesting times", they may well have had Communications and Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie in mind.

STATES: ANDHRA PRADESH     STATES: KERALA
Milking Naidu Style     He Wants The Crown

This Diwali saw the BJP president storming his home district, Nellore, with Rs. 500 crore worth of sops. Despite denials, many see his move as a neat ruse to make political gains for his party.

    K. Karunakaran is banking on a new-found friendship with sworn enemies, the Marxists, and his growing acceptance within the ruling coalition to unseat Chief Minister A.K. Antony.
DIPLOMACY: IC 814 INVESTIGATION     DIPLOMACY: PRINCE CHARLES' INDIA TOUR
An Insider Speaks     A Royal Duty
The CBI's grilling of the former Taliban foreign minister confirms Indian suspicions of an ISI role in the Kandahar hijacking.
    Taking a break from another royal scandal generated by a former palace butler's revelations, Prince Charles seeks refuge in the charms and warmth of an Indian picnic
 

BUSINESS & ECONOMY: GROUP INSURANCE

    EDUCATION: EXAMINATION SYSTEMS
Work Under Cover     Quality Quotient

Group insurance coverage is the latest HR tool in town and a growing number of companies are offering life and medical cover to their employees. Soon this may become the norm.

   

The growing challenges of higher education both at home and overseas are compelling top-notch Indian schools to adopt modern education programmes like the international baccalaureate.

HERITAGE: NEGLECTED MONUMENTS     PHOTO FEATURE: INSIDE MECCA
Lost World     The Call of Faith

The World Monuments Fund has put three Indian structures on its Watch List. But there is more to it. Like the sites in Hampi, the country's treasures are in imminent danger of being lost to time.

   

Paris-based photographer Reza, who was permitted to take rare pictures of Islam's holiest site in Mecca on assignment for National Geographic channel, has made them exclusively available for INDIA TODAY.

SOCIETY & THE ARTS: FASHION     SOCIETY & THE ARTS: ALTERNATIVE SEXUALITY
Storm in a Tee     Day of the Gays

As two top designers lock horns over the issue of plagiarism of jewelled T-shirts it turns out that imitation is certainly not the best form of flattery in the world of fashion.

   

Indian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities take sexuality to the streets and auditoriums of Mumbai to form a minority force for asserting their identities and legal space.

OFFTRACK: MUMBAI      
Rest in Peace      

Making dignity in death his prerogative, a businessman arranges funerals for unclaimed bodies.

     
       
       
       
YOUR WEEK: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
All in the Genes
       
 INDIASCOPE
TREMORS VIS-A-VIS THE P FACTOR OBJECT OF DESIRE
 
THE BUZZ OF THE WEEK

Prime Minister Vajpayee found himself a new holistic medicine expert during his stay in New York. She is Dr Bhaswati Mukherjee, a Harvard-trained doctor who will be advising him on his health.

 
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS     SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
Aligarh is not India A Nation Anatomised
The scholar's riot special is riddled with fallacies and an acute intellectual schizophrenia
    Sham Lal's arguments with the many shades of Indian reality are still relevant
SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS      
The Second Sex  
A chronicle of woes that has little space to celebrate womanhood
     
 
METRO TODAY
 
EYECATCHERS

Over the Top; A song for Hubby; Right on Cue; Oh, What a Babe

 
 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.
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