The scholar who will be President
A P J Abdul Kalam wants to continue his research and teach even after occupying the highest office in the land, discovers Shobha Warrier.

TOP REPORT
Funds for tehelka from West Asia: Govt
But the portal's Managing Editor Tarun Tejpal denied the allegation and refuted the government's claim that the operation was a 'commercial' and not a 'journalistic' exercise.

Tehelka reporter arrested in poaching case
The reporter had been working under a fictitious name of 'Pankaj', for whom two poachers Inam and Meherban, arrested earlier, had been working, the CBI said.

Gaurav Yatra postponed not cancelled: Jaitley
BJP spokesman Arun Jaitley said the decision was taken by the Gujarat unit of the party in consultation with the central leadership.

Nitish rules out review of bifurcation decision
He also denied reports that a group of ministers was being constituted to go into the bifurcation of the Eastern Railways.

No decline in cross-border terrorism: Sinha
Indicating continuation of the policies laid down by his predecessor, Yashwant Sinha said that his priorities `are already well-defined. I don't have to restate them'.

'Death squad' to target Farooq, Omar
Pakistan-based Jamiat-e-mujahideen, one of two militant groups banned in April under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), has set up the squad.

Jayalalithaa threatens Vaiko with POTA
The Tamil Nadu chief minister has complained to Union Home Minister L K Advani about the MDMK leader's pro-LTTE utterances.

POTA threat political vendetta: Vaiko
The MDMK leader attributed the threat to his strident criticism of the ruling AIADMK government's policies in recent times.

Kalam's autobiography in Kannada soon
The NDA presidential nominee's book, which is now attracting much interest in bookshops, is being translated into Kannada by Aeronautical Defence Agency's public relations officer Puttur Jayaprakash Rao.

Advani rejects RSS call for trifurcation of J&K
The deputy prime minister said that the government had maintained that it would focus on the integration of the state and its people with the rest of the country.

COLUMN
Advani is the man to watch
'The BJP has virtually signaled who its prime ministerial candidate will be for the next election, more than two years away. That is enough time for Advani to appear to shed his image of a hardliner and cloak himself with acceptability,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.

INTERVIEW
'Afghanistan is moving away from Taliban extremism'
'Nearly one-third of the US $100 million that India pledged has either been implemented or is under implementation.' India's special envoy for Afghanistan, Satinder Lambah, speaks to Shyam Bhatia.

MARKET REPORT
Sensex rises 25 points on renewed buying
While old economy stocks hold on to their gains, tech stocks recover, after a subdued start.

MONEY SPECIAL
The road ahead for the new FM
Jaswant Singh's job should be to tackle corruption and evasion of excise duties, says Ila Patnaik.

BUSINESS
India's Jan-May FDI inflow up 60%
Despite the Indo-Pak tension and the Gujarat violence, FDI inflow into India rose to $1.89 billion.

WorldCom CEO to press case for survival
The company, whose network carries about half of the world's Internet traffic, said none of its major customers had canceled contracts and it saw no threat of being shut down.

Enron gives more data on possible sham power trades
Enron was ordered to turn over the data by the FERC, which is trying to determine if any companies used "wash" trades to boost revenue, distort trading volumes or influence market prices.

How to flourish in the emerging markets scenario
Ask Arjun Divecha. The 46-year-old former aeronautic engineer from IIT, Bombay has used quantitative models, plus common sense to select stocks, which have consistently outperformed the index.

CRICKET
Horses for courses policy
Sriram Ranganathan says doing away with the seniority policy is paying dividends for the Indian team.

NZ challenging England for the third place
Rediff Test ratings.

CRICKET COLUMN
India's youngsters have played with relish
Peter Roebuck is particularly impressed with the performance of Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh in the NatWest Tri-Series.

WIMBLEDON
Bhupathi-Miryni fall by the wayside
The third seeds lost to the fifth-seeded pair of Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.

MOVIES
Vikram Bhatt moves on to 'Footpath'
Post 'Awara Paagal Deewana', the director has his plate full.

Priyanka does a world of good
Actress promotes welfare of orphans and cancer patients in Libya.

NET GUIDE
The Web Works for Aarti Chabbria
The actress uses the Net to settle contracts and receive story lines.

Tom Cruise turns 40
Eight sites on the enigmatic actor.

Aniston settles topless photo lawsuit
The 'Friends' star settled her privacy lawsuit against two magazines that published photos of her sunbathing topless in her back yard.