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NEWS
Bodies of two 'militants' exhumed in J&K
Till late evening, the team led by Dr Balwinder Kaur, head, Department of Forensic Science, Government Medical College, had exhumed one body in village Panchathal and another in Sanglan

NEWS
Militants reject Advani's talks offer
A spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Toiba said the offer of a dialogue was "meaningless as long as India indulges in state-sponsored terrorism in Kashmir".

NEWS
'Do you want the land or the people?'
Jumma Khan's disappearance, along with a few others, remains a mystery even as locals believe he was buried with four other villagers whom the director general of police described as dreaded foreign militants.

NEWS
Sharief may still go to the gallows, feel experts
'Once the trial goes to the superior courts, they too will find him guilty and sentence him to death. And when this happens... by then international pressure is likely to be less effective on the Pakistani regime.'

50 YEARS OF THE INDIAN REPUBLIC
Who is an Indian?
'Anything you can say about India, the opposite is also true. For every truism you advance, you can find a truism which asserts the opposite and that's particularly striking about a country whose national motto is Satyamev Jayate,' says Shashi Tharoor.

BUSINESS
Manoj Tirodkar is India's Young Business Achiever
The managing director of Global Tele-Systems Limited will now represent India at the global event to select the world's young achiever in the US.

BUSINESS
Maruti on the comeback trail
Maruti's proactive attitude, strong brand positioning, and a community-oriented approach have seen it win back its sliding market share.

MARKET REPORT
Market@6 April: Sensex climbs 110 points
After a volatile day, the market recovered in the last 30 minutes. Reliance and Infosys reached the upper circuit.

MARKET TRENDS
Stung by the crash, retail investors stay away
Historically, the small investor is lured into the market when it's booming and exits when it has fallen flat. This time, too, he was the one to be hit the hardest.

SPECIAL
'I want to use Buddhism as a weapon against the Hindu caste system'
'We all claim that religion is a private affair. But in actual practice, religion is not a private affair in Kerala. Religion has become a social and political necessity in Kerala,' says neo-convert and well-known Malayalam poet Balachandran Chullikkad.

SPORTS INTERVIEW
'I'm still there; those who accused me are not'
Wasim Akram, in the concluding part of his interview, talks about match-fixing accusations and the Qayyum Commission report.

SPORTS
Stage set for new era in county cricket
All eyes are on Dravid, Ganguly and Kumble.

MOVIES
'I won't exchange my life with anybody'
Shah Rukh Khan answers your questions. In Real Audio.

MOVIES
Different strokes!
Husain now paints Juhi Chawla.

MUSIC
'I am to be blamed for the position I am in today'
O P Nayyar, in a no-holds-barred interview.

BOOKS
'I remade myself by writing'
'Writing the book was not about reliving experiences that had happened, but in giving them new meanings and a new shape. I feel like a different person now.' Laura Roychowdhury talks to Rohit Chopra about The Jadu House.

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'A perfect chimaera of a book'
'Anthropologist Laura Roychowdhury summons out of the "shameless" dark the "wicked courage" she needs to reinvent herself; this book documents her journey.' A letter from I Allan Sealy.

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