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  COVER STORY:
BANGALORE
The Big Fight
In the tussle between former prime
minister H.D. DEVE GOWDA, who is playing for political brownies,
and tech titan N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY, WHO IS caught in an unseemly
proxy war, the solutions to Bangalore's woes seem to have been
pushed off the radar.
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Pay-Back
Time
In a unique experiment, an NGO helps
NRI professionals to undertake public service projects in
the country of their origin. India Today's Uday Mahurkar
reports.
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WEB FEATURES
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NATION: KASHMIR QUAKE
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Scarred
Innocence
Thousands of quake-affected children
in the Valley, battling cold weather and trauma, need special
care and attention.
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STATES:
JAMMU AND KASHMIR
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Azad's
Kashmir?
As the Mufti portrays himself as the
indispensable leader of the Valley, a miffed Congress wants
a change of guard.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMY: FRINGE BENEFIT TAX
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So, What's
The Damage?
The FBT looks less draconian for salary
earners than it first did in light of the clarifications
issued by the Government.
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TOURISM: PUSHKAR
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Westernised
Ghats
As local pundits protest against the
growing number of foreign visitors to the holy city, Pushkar
is caught between sustaining tourism and witnessing an erosion
of its religious environs.
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RELIGION:
SABARIMALA SHRINE
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Reserved
For God
The transfer of land from the Periyar
Tiger Reserve to the Sabarimala temple for expansion purposes
has environmentalists praying for the area's fragile ecosystem.
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: LONELINESS
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Alone In
The City
After stress, urban India's newest bane
is loneliness. Changing lifestyles and erratic timings of
new economy jobs are alienating the youth from their social
environment.
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
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Home Truths
A heady mix of slapstick and sadism
that stretches from Delhi to Kerala.
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NATION: HANDLING CALAMITIES
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Disastrous
Management
With the National Disaster Management
Authority yet to concretise, the country continues to stumble
during crises.
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STATES: BIHAR
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Vote Of
Confidence
Sound security and peaceful voting marked
the polls in a state notorious for booth capturing and violence.
Yet certain things don't change-ticket-seeking in-laws,
proxy candidates and copter campaigns.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMY:
CREDIT POLICY
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Higher
Interest Rates: Perhaps Friendlier Banking: Yes
The RBI review has implications for
how you look at prices, the interest on loans and how you
do banking.
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TOURISM: SHARAD UTSAV
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Making
Fair Progress
Tradition meets modernity in a cultural
extravaganza in arid Kutch as Gujarat packages the region
as a tourism hot spot.
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WILDLIFE: VULTURES
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Return
Flight
Vultures are flying back to their natural
environs in Katarniaghat and are breeding naturally, raising
hopes of their survival.
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
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Waylaid
On The Sabarmati
A masterly history of the making
of the Gujarati identity is spoiled by an out-of-place anti-Hindutva
harangue.
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