INTERVIEW
'India has shown it can compete on a world scale'
'I was part of that generation who had gone there for education, with the full intention of coming back.' Cirrus Logic founder-chairman Suhas Patil on the growing Indo-American partnership.

ACHIEVER
Ex-academic rocks London bourse with start-up
Prof Madan Singh's software uses mathematical models to find the optimum price at which goods can be sold without discouraging would-be customers and stopping them from buying. 'This is not a dot.com. We have products based on strong technology with global potential,' says Singh.

NEWS
'Clinton sought a better relationship with India'
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has said that 'the fundamental goal of President Clinton's visit to India was to set our course for a qualitatively different and better relationship with India, not simple return to the status quo before its nuclear tests.'

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Programs in his belfry
Pankaj Arora, a teen with an inclination for computers, is fighting off job offers so that he can complete his studies.

Store owner fights French laws
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Naseer, Jaya, Paresh prove serious theatre can be fun
Promoters also find that serious dramas with big name character actors can be a big draw.

Judge orders preservation of dead teenager's foetal tissue
Lakireddy Balireddy and his son have demanded a DNA examination, saying it will prove they did not have sex with the dead girl.

Indian techies to be hailed at Asha Bhosle show in Newark
'They have not received the kind of recognition they deserve,' says Krishen Oberoi, organiser of the show.

Professor attacks model minority myth
Vijay Prashad's new book The Karma of Brown Folk will stimulate controversies and debates.

How the Pakistanis woo Hillary
The First Lady seems to be beholden to the Pakistanis in New York where she is fighting a very expensive Senate race.

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