NEWS
Split in Bengal Congress imminent
While the rebels led by Ghani Khan Chowdhury have virtually approved of the BJP's participation in the grand alliance, the rival group led by Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi says even an indirect adjustment with it will compromise the party's secular credentials.

THE BETTING SCANDAL
ED gets two days to grill Rajesh Kalra
The judge, however, declined the Crime Branch's request for Kalra's custody thereafter and remanded him to judicial custody till April 27.

Cronje surrenders ill-gotten money
Meanwhile, the South African media has identified the mystery man who served as intermediary between the former captain and Sanjeev Chawla.

CRICKET DIARY
Why did honest Hansie turn crooked Cronje?
Prem Panicker has some logical answers to the question. Read on.

CRICKET INTERVIEW
'I think now I will go to the president and ask for the Qayyum Commission report'
Lt Gen Tauriq Zia, president of the Pakistan Cricket Board, on match-fixing and team selection.

MARKET REPORT
Mkts@Apr 13: Sensex plunges 257 points
Panic grips market. Infosys, Global, Himachal and Reliance remain in lower circuit.

BUSINESS
Hyderabad, Goa, Ahmedabad to be designated international airports
The government took this decision on the recommendations of the task force on infrastructure. The Amritsar, Guwahati and Cochin airports too will get similar status.

MONEY CHAT
'Wait till the NASDAQ stabilises'
Ramesh S Damani feels that the NASDAQ is on the verge of entering a bear phase. If that happens all tech stocks will get slammed. He then expects the Indian market to disconnect its umbilical cord with the NASDAQ since our fundamentals our different.

INTERVIEW
'Who's to blame other than Khursheed?'
'It is high time some kind of accountability is evolved within the party machinery so that those who fail to deliver the goods can be pulled out of responsible assignments,' says Uttar Pradesh Congress politician Ammar Rizvi, in his first-ever outburst.

MARKET TRENDS
FIIs have been net buyers throughout this month
Despite the markets falling, purportedly because of FII offloading, foreign funds have actually been net buyers, to the tune of Rs 20 billion.

QUARTERLY RESULTS
Latest quarterly results
The Money Channel and RISC introduce the latest quarterly results, courtesy BSE-Dun & Bradstreet India.
• Kilburn Engineering

MOVIES
Extreme measures
How Aditya Chopra is protecting his young cast.

MOVIES
Stay away from this Gang!
A wasted effort from the late Mazhar Khan.

BOOKS
'Look closely, Watson...'
'I judge a person by his or her behaviour with a book. This simple forensic principle has stood me in good stead over the years,' says Rohit Chopra.

MUSIC
Sensational stuff
The Vairamuthu-Rahman combination comes up trumps in Kandukondain Kandukondain, recent controversy notwithstanding.

DIARY
The rat gnawed the rope
'The same night, I could hear them having a ball in the attic. Bottles were pushed around, tins were rattled, papers were torn.' Caroline Lira wouldn't want to live through all that again!

TRAVEL
To the City of Clouds
Hotel tariffs for Leh, the capital of Ladakh.

COLUMN
Kashmir mayhem and isolating Musharraf
'Why is the media so loud when hollering about the violations of human rights of Muslims but not of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir? And when will India's obsession with Pakistan end?' asks Rajeev Srinivasan.

Cronje does a Clinton
Avinash Subramanium, reflecting on the murky match-fixing episode, says if Clinton could get away with a blue dress, why can't Cronje get away with dishonesty?