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| COVER STORY: ELECTION STRATEGY |
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COVER STORY: WAR ROOMS |
| Inside the Fog of
War |
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Digitally Yours |
The
BJP is refining its India Shining plank to make it more tangible
while aggressively promoting a growth agenda. The Congress plays
catch-up-with and challenges the feel-good line.
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The
BJP and Congress party offices may well be the venues for announcements
but the spin is meticulously perfected in busy backrooms where
computers whirr, well into the night
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| COVER STORY: BHARAT UDAY YATRA |
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COVER STORY: KARNATAKA |
| Shining Armour |
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Eroding Challenge |
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Fourteen years ago he changed the political
contours of the country with his Rath Yatra. Now Advani's
Bharat Uday Yatra is aimed at taking the BJP's India Shining
message to the masses.
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Through
an aggressive campaign Ananth Kumar hopes to win over voters
and disgruntled Congress leaders in Karnataka.
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| COVER STORY: ANDHRA PRADESH |
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MONEY TODAY: INSIDE |
| Set for the Final
Charge |
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The Manna Called MIP |
While
the TDP is planning a major pollskrieg, the Congress is caught
in an uneasy alliance with the communists and the TRS, with
no clear stand on issues like statehood for Telangana
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By
combining safety with reasonably high returns, MIPs, or monthly
income plans, are emerging as the new wonder funds
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| EDITORIAL |
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LETTERS |
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From
The Editor In Chief
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To
The Editor |
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| OTHER STORIES |
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| MONEY TODAY: ATMS |
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MONEY TODAY: CHILDREN INSURANCE PLANS |
| Any Task Machine |
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Little Becomes Big |
ATMs
are no longer mere money vending machines and now offer services
like cricket scores, news headlines, stock quotes and even movie
and railway tickets
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Children
policies that take care of future financial needs of the child
are the hottest selling insurance plans today
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| MONEY TODAY: INTERVIEW TRADING/ANUP BAGCHI |
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MONEY TODAY: PERSONAL LOANS |
| Buying Shares @ The
Speed of Tought |
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Loans for All Needs |
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In an increasingly
faster world of information flow, online investing gives you
the combined advantage of speed, transparency and information
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Banks are lending
money without asking what you want to do with it—and
with virtually no paper work
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| MONEY TODAY:
MY MONEY |
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NEIGHBOURS: SRI LANKA |
| Bankers' Money |
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Ominous Rift |
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Where do the people you trust your
savings with invest their won money? India's leading bankers
reveal the how, where and why of their personal investment
strategy.
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The truce will
be the casualty in the island as LTTE renegade Karuna drums
up support among the cadres and the people
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| WORLD: OPERATION BIN LADEN |
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THE GLOBAL INDIA: PATHAK
INHERITANCE |
| The
Catch in the Hunt |
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In
a Pickle |
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As the US elections
draw near the search for bing Laden picks up pace along the
Pakistani border. But neither Bush nor Musharraf will have
it easy as the tense tribal belt is resentful of American
operations.
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Seven years
after the death of pickle king Lakhubhai Pathak, his family
is divided over a bitter inheritance squabble.
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| SPORTS: MONEY IN CRICKET |
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SPORTS: INDIA TODAY-SAMSUNG
INDO-PAK SHOWDOWN |
| Fastest
Delivery |
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The
Heat is on |
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Mega telecast
deals, fully booked flights and huge adspends the Indo-Pak
cricket series is turning out to be a gold mine.
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India's first full tour of Pakistan in 14 years is a balancing
act: between history and proximity, between what they can
do and what they will.
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| SCIENCE: WOLF |
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: DESIGN
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| Wolf
at Our Door |
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Shaping
the Future |
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A genetic study of Indian wolves challenges some traditional
scientific beliefs: wolves evolved in India, not North America.
And dogs, their close cousins, are migrants to the subcontinent.
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India as the new centre of cutting-edge design? Don't baulk.
It may soon be a reality as the country's professionals overcome
the crafts barrier to claim the world as their own.
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| SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
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| Trapped
Inside Fear |
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Identity
Parade |
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The purdah ladies become more engrossing when they migrate
from real life to fiction.
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The politics of cultural assertion triumphs as the first
coalition government completes its full term at the Centre.
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| SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
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OFFTRACK: MADHYA PRADESH |
| Vintage
Bond |
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All
for the Tiger |
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Where literature is all about afternoon naps and walks in
the hills.
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He is a royal,
she a wildlife biologist. Together they have set out not only
to save the tigers of Bandhavgarh National Park, but also the
tribals who live adjacent tot he biodiversity spot.
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CURRENT ISSUE MARCH 22, 2004
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