THE BETTING SCANDAL
ED, Delhi police raid Chawla's house
Meanwhile, actor Kishen Kumar was pronounced fit by a team of doctors who, however, said he was not well enough to face interrogation.

THE BETTING SCANDAL
Diplomacy is the latest casualty
The matchfixing allegation against South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is turning into a major diplomatic row, despite the efforts of the external affairs ministry to play it down.

NEWS
NAM may close its doors on Gen Musharraf
India is expected to work in tandem with Dhaka to effectively prepare a resolution that will show the door to countries ruled by military juntas.

NEWS
Advani's remarks on 'grand alliance' exercise Congress party
The Congress is in a dilemma in states like Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala because it is unable to decide whether it should think in terms of the people's interests or continue with its anti-BJP-ism, the home minister said.

BUSINESS
'India to open up economy totally by 2001'
A top Indian official said 'quantitative restrictions on more than 700 items will be lifted before March 31, 2001. From April 1, 2001, India will become a free economy'.

MARKET REPORT
Market@April 10: Sensex up 225 points
Software stocks remained in demand for the third day running. Reliance accounted for a third of the BSE's volumes. The Nifty rose 52 points.

STOCK STRATEGY
What will impact the market?
The direction the stock markets take will depend on corporate results, NASDAQ movement, FII strategy, government policies, profit-taking and the tendency to shift to old economy scrips.

THE BETTING CONTROVERSY
More proof needed to tighten case
Senior high court advocates are of the opinion that though there is circumstantial evidence in the matchfixing case, the Indian authorities still need to pursue other aspects to make it watertight

CRICKET DIARY
The Cronje caper
Prem Panicker analyses various aspects of the controversy swirling around the beleaguered South African skipper.

SPECIAL
'Sonia's authority is no longer what it
used to be'
'Congress party workers are getting impatient with Sonia Gandhi,' said party sources. 'The clamour for introspection within the party is something most Congressmen feel... but they are keeping their feelings under wrap.'

MESSAGE BOARD
'There is no smoke without fire'
More clips on the matchfixing scandal from our message board.

MOVIES
The Plus point
Another film, along the lines of Hyderabad Blues.

MOVIES
'I need a working film badly'
Director Manoj Agarwal on Hadh Kar Di Aapne.

BOOKS
A wedding in Washington
'Every time I read Savi's Washingtonil Thirumanam, I burst into non-stop laughter. The slim volume deals with the wedding of a typical South Indian couple in the American capital,' says V Gangadhar.

MUSIC
A pleasant surprise
Gang may have taken years to be made, but its songs still have a fresh ring to them.

COLUMNS
The muck stops here
The simple fact of the matter, whether or not you believe cricketers can be bought and matches can be fixed, is this: in every single case not involving Salim Malik and Wasim Akram, India figures pretty highly, says Krishna Prasad.

The spectre of imagined suffering
Any honest assessment of the Indian immigrant experience must conclude that the spectre of suffering that we are asked to beware of is mostly imaginary. Nobody is out to get us, even if there were an us in the first place, says Ashwin Mahesh.

Death of a cricket fan
Avinash Subramanium reacts to the match-fixing controversy. In verse.

Are we being taken for a ride?
Zak Parkar writes an open letter to ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya.

Kudos for Kapil
The Haryanvi lost his crown to Courtney Walsh, yet remains a hero for Abhilasha Khaitan.