NEWS
Catholics seeks subsidy to visit Holy Land
Law Minister Ram Jethmalani and Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi assured Church leaders that they would try to help poor pilgrims attend the celebration to mark 2000 years of the Christian faith.

NEWS
Gupta admits to role of money in RS poll
'The flow of money in the Rajya Sabha elections is a gift from the affluent businessmen in the fray,' the Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.

BUSINESS
RBI cuts bank rate, CRR, repo rates by 1 per cent
The Reserve Bank of India today announced monetary easing measures to lower interest rates, which included a 1 per cent reduction in bank rate, CRR and repo rates.

INTERVIEW
'If our views are ignored, the party stands to suffer'
'I am a veteran party member and I can scarcely remain silent as I see no change at the decision-making level,' says former Lok Sabha speaker Balram Jakhar.

DAY 9: THE IPKF IN LANKA
'Nobody sounded even a Last Post for our dead'
'The bodies were burnt by the LTTE. They used to put a tyre around the body, fill up the tyre with kerosene and put it on fire. And tell us, X is being burnt, please go and take it from the centre of the town.' Maj Gen Harkirat Singh recounts his experiences in Sri Lanka.

SPECIAL
'The ISI and extremists consider me their enemy number one'
From exile in Holland, Hashim Qureshi, the first hijacker of an Indian Airlines aircraft, speaks out!

SPECIAL
'Didn't Maharaja Hari Singh procrastinate too long?'
'I don't think there's a quid pro quo involving the CTBT issue. I also don't expect any "force" to be involved. India can bargain over this point and try to push for a seat on the Security Council. However, India should base its claim on more direct arguments,' Dr Richard Cohen tells The Rediff Chat.

MOVIES
'Whatever affects me gets reflected in
my films'
Shankar charms the audience on The Rediff Chat.

MOVIES
Powerful, riveting!
Luc Besson's Joan of Arc rocks the house.

COLUMNS
Meeting with the Master
'Thanks to the faith reposed in him by a teacher, a boy who would have otherwise been assumed criminal is today a respected teacher himself in his village. One from whom we too can learn a few lessons if we listen hard enough,' says Dilip D'Souza.

Looking for an Amritsar Express
Pakistan is able to produce pace bowlers aplenty. Surely India also can. But for that to happen, says Sujata Prakash, the BCCI needs to zero in on places like Punjab which may have potential pace-bowler material in terms of physical strength and stamina.