INTERVIEW
'We are not the initiators of the fight'
Dr V Maitreyan, AIADMK member of the Rajya Sabha, on the ordinance on religious conversions and the Cauvery row.
BUSINESS
Indians can open foreign currency A/Cs: RBI
Payments received for services on a visit abroad may be parked in this account, which has no limit on balances.
India looks to ASEAN to boost trade
A report by McKinsey and FICCI said that two-way trade could reach $24 billion-$30 billion by 2007.
CRICKET
Chanderpaul, Samuels give Windies lead
The West Indies went to tea on 363 for 5, with Chanderpaul unbeaten on 107 and Samuels approaching his half-century, on day three in the third Test against India.
Azhar to be offered coaching job at CCI
An unfinished 191-run partnership between the duo saw the West Indies pile 446 for 5 before bad light ended play early on day 3 in the third Test against India.
SPECIAL
The 2002 FICA Player Survey
Players' response to the FICA questionnaire during the ICC Champions Trophy.
SPORTS
Kerala romp into Santosh Trophy final
The defending champions scored a 3-2 victory over Services in the first semi-final of the National football championship.
INTERVIEW
'The gold medal is everything for me'
'When you dream about something for this long and it actually happens, it's a feeling out of this world,' says Asian Games golf gold medallist Shiv Kapur.
SPECIAL
Lives less lonely
A few men and women, widowed by the cyclone that struck Orissa on October 29, 1999, have married each other, reports Giridhar Gopal.
MORE REPORTS
Mufti likely to retain home ministry
Congress leader Mangat Ram Sharma, who is likely to be the deputy prime minister, may get the power and rural development ministries.
'Allow Pak Kashmir panel to visit India'
The Kashmiri separatist leader Shabbir Shah said such a move would be seen as 'goodwill gesture to break the deadlock' over the Kashmir issue.
Lanka, LTTE make headway in peace talks
Among other things, they have agreed to set up a committee for the development of the violence-hit northern and eastern provinces.
MOVIES
What a sad six-song routine!
If Kareena, Tusshar sought to entertain, 'Jeena Sirf Merre Liye' is not it
Govinda? Groan! Not again!
The humour in 'Waah! Tera Kya Kehna' makes you cry.
Why did 'Leela' have an affair?
That and many unanswered questions plague Somnath Sen's film.
Ash pleased with response in
Hollywood
For the last fortnight the actress met with agents, executives and directors discussing prospects.
COLUMNS
The cost of a war that wasn't
'Operation Parakram will go down in Indian military history as the first time a grand deployment ended in a mere redeployment, a la withdrawal,' says Major General (retd) Ashok K Mehta.
Fear of Engineering
'Technologists, who have to deal with the complexities of the real world, are intellectually equipped to debate humanities people even in their own specialties,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
