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  January 8, 2003             Today's News Search the Internet
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   Using the World Cup
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   Can the Kamasutra
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   'TDSAT to shape
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   Active in peace

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   The year that was

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   Jaswant Singh and
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   How strong is the
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   The 'third man' in
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   The telecom thrust

   Decade of great change
   for India Inc

   The (economic)
   year that was

   Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 78

   Cell firms fighting
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   Reliving the 1962 War

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   Recap of the 1979   
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   I learn from   
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   Vett's Set!

   Tugga Waugh

   Of one-man armies

   Hows and whys of   
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   Who shrunk
   Test cricket?

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Trans PARVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS
'We need India and India needs us'
'The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas would be an exercise in futility if we are unable to build bonds of solidarity between India and the Diaspora,' says former Fiji prime minister Mahendra Choudhry.

Why the diaspora needs India
'Dual nationality is not a matter of a passport, but of personal identity,' says Lord Bhikhu Parekh. 'It could even be our destiny.'

Dual citizenship doesn't interest Gulf NRIs
They believe the four million Indians in the Gulf are being sidelined by the Indian government as they are mostly skilled and semi-skilled labourers.
TiE team discusses vision for India with Kalam

OTHER REPORTS
Centre rejects corn-soya bean mix from US
An Environment Ministry suspects the foodstuff was genetically engineered.

Cold wave claims more lives
As many as 42 deaths were reported from UP, while in West Bengal seven people succumbed to the biting cold.

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 NRIs all set for the
 first Diasporic meet

 NRI meet to miss
 some big names

 India, Mauritius to cooperate
 in combating terrorism

 Pakistan's envoy to
 UN assaults woman

 Naga leader to meet PM
 on Thursday evening

 Bengal passes strictures
 against cops

 Rathyatras to lead up to
 Modi rally in Mumbai

 India rejects Japan's
 plea to join NPT

 Pressure Pakistan to stop
 terrorism: PM to Japan

 Mulayam raps Mayawati for
 collecting funds for her birthday

 Don't vitiate atmosphere
 before polls: Lyngdoh

 Delhi to throw out
 illegal immigrants

 Maharashtra Mantralaya
 to be attached partly

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  Pravasi Divas Special   Cricket World Cup     Movie Interview
The importance of being an NRI
Aussies undoubtedly favourites
  'The story is the hero, boss'
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Pak scientist offers nuke technology
The media in Islamabad on Wednesday published contents of a brochure allegedly brought out by the country's top nuclear scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, offering nuclear technology to other nations.

Debtors eye Maharashtra secretariat
What's more, even the Maharashtra government's treasury and bank account with the Reserve Bank of India is under threat.

Centre to get tough with separatist leaders
A dossier submitted to the government accuses, among others, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik of making anti-India statements abroad.

SPECIAL
The Phantoms of Chittagong
The operation was so secret that most Indian generals did not know what the 3,000 Tibetans jawans did on India's behalf in East Pakistan, in 1971, reveals Claude Arpi..

READERS' RESPONSE
'Landline rates should also come down'

CRICKET
Zaheer excels as India finally taste victory
The medim pacer bagged three wickets for 30 runs and followed it up with a match-winning 34 as India beat New Zealand in the fifth ODI by two wickets.

Muralitharan is world's best bowler: Ponting
Australia's one-day captain believes that playing against the Sri Lanka off-spinner is largely guesswork.

CRICKET WORLD CUP
Windies inconsistent, but not incapable
Batting brilliance and disciplined bowling makes them a formidable opposition, says Ashish Magotra.

REDIFF TEST RATINGS
India drop to sixth position
Australia and South Africa occupy the first two slots.

MOVIES
Why 'Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi' is nonstop fun
Dinesh Raheja revisits a classic.

'The Lord of the Rings rooted in racism'
Dr Stephen Shapiro, who teaches at the Warwick University, told rediff.com that J R R Tolkien, the author, has used his novels to present bigotry through a fantasy world.

NET GUIDE
Move over MP3
Music lovers find a new hero in Ogg Vorbis.

This GameBoy isn't for the boys!
Nintendo unveils its latest handheld GameBoy--a slick looking device as big as a wallet and weighing five ounces.

Specials on Bollywood/Hollywood
Mr and Mrs Iyer | Talaash | Tujhe Meri Kasam

COLUMNS
Why Surjeet loves Laloo Yadav
Comrade Surjeet knows the Third Front won't win too many seats; he is concentrating on winning power without winning the election, says T V R Shenoy.

Halting Hindutva's march
'No party has endangered national security as severely, as the BJP, by dividing the nation and severing it from the very people who constitute it. And none has tried to drive such a wedge between Hindus and others, and among the Hindus themselves,' says Praful Bidwai.

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  Top Money Headlines
 Infosys to set up
 campus in Kerala

 Oil firms stockpile
 crude, petro products

 Leela Group to sign
 MoU for Kannur airport

 Moody's may up Indian
 forex debt rating by mid-Feb

 Kelkar proposals will
 be adopted: CII

 Govt seeks joint ventures
 in gas-rich countries

 AG likely to give opinion
 on HPCL, BPCL by Friday

 Japan announces $900 mn
 loan for India

 Latest corporate headlines

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 Hollywood Cricket Club
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 Hussain almost quit England
 captaincy: Father

 Mark Waugh leads
 Bradman XI to victory

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 Durand Cup: Okoro's strike
 puts East Bengal in final

 Depleted Indian team
 for SAFF tournament

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  Net Guide
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 There's money in matchmaking

 Gays: Using the Net to
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 VJ Maria uses Net
 to impress viewers

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 Amberish K Diwanji on the
 search for Hindutva's soul

 Daniel Laidlaw looks
 back on 2002

 Peter Roebuck says Aussies
 should be graceful in adversity

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