NEWS
Trinamul-backed candidate wins RS seat
Cross-voting in the Congress sees independent Jayanta Bhattacharya through.

NEWS
RJD-supported monk wins RS bypoll
Another independent candidate supported by the party won the by-election to the legislative council.

NEWS
Giani Joginder Singh appointed acting jathedar
He took over after the SGPC executive deposed Giani Puran Singh as jathedar for 'lowering the dignity of the Akal Takht'

NEWS
NC candidate wins J&K RS seat
Mirza Abdul Rashid beat Vidya Sagar, the candidate put up by the combined opposition, by 48 votes.

INTERVIEW
'I'm not sad that the children died'
Dara Singh, the main accused for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, in an exclusive interview.

CRICKET INTERVIEW
'Bobby Simpson tried to ruin my career'
Shoaib Akhtar, who bowled the fastest ball recorded in international cricket on Tuesday, speaks out!

NEWS
Pak to scale down J&K militancy
'We will try to... persuade the freedom fighters to reduce tension. But there has to be reciprocity. They should never expect us to take unilateral action,' General Musharraf said.

BUSINESS INTERVIEW
'There are more advantages in India than in China'
'The whole world has recognised India's future in knowledge-based industries. It's the new economy and India has a big role to play. There's a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I'd just like to help them realise it,' says Kerry Packer.

BUSINESS
Silicon Triangle holds great prospects for India
'It is estimated that India will have 9 million Internet users and 400 ISPs by 2003. Indian e-business revenues will reach $ 162 million in 2001. Within India, Tamil Nadu is likely to surge ahead of both Karnataka and Andhra,' say Nirupam Bajpai and Navi Radjou of the Harvard University.

DAY 6: THE IPKF IN LANKA
Ultimately the Indian soldier was humiliated
"The government in Delhi did not [humiliate him]. But the government in Tamil Nadu did." The last part of Lt General A S Kalkat 's interview.

SPECIAL
Home ministry offers peace pipe to north-east insurgents
The new game-plan is in keeping with the announcement by Home Minister L K Adavani in the Lok Sabha earlier this month that the Centre is willing to talk to any militant group provided they accept that the parameters of such negotiations are within the ambit of the Indian Constitution.

DIARY
The end of Clintonmania
"We only wanted to ensure that nothing happened to him while he was in Hyderabad. After that, what difference does it make to us?" asked one cop.

MESSAGE BOARD
'Clinton's visit was an honour'
Read the posts on Bill Clinton's visit to India. And tell us what you think of the aftermath.

MARKET REPORT
Markets@March 29: Day's report
Market witnesses selling pressure with low volumes.

SPECIAL
Today's Images
Pilgrims, just back from Mecca after the Haj, greet Prime Minister Vajpayee...

MUSIC
Celine...Divine
Celine Dion retreats from the spotlight for a while to devote time to her family. A profile of the lady on the eve of her 32nd birthday.

MOVIES
Comedy zindabad
Suno Sasurji aims to tickle the funny bone. An on-the-set report.

MOVIES
'I love the whole idea of creating things'
Ash Rai on the thrills of filmdom

BOOKS
Flogging a dead horse
Shashi Warrier succumbs to the temptation of being a narrator (instead of a story-teller). The soul is missing in Hangman's Journal, says Shameem Akthar.

COLUMNS
Building bridges
'Having more or less got over our obsession with Pakistan, the Vajpayee government has finally succeeded in mending fences with the most powerful nation in the world. It remains to be seen whether it can do so with China too,' says T V R Shenoy.

Cracks in the NDA
'For the first time ideological contradictions have surfaced among the NDA constituents. Such differences have a tendency to reappear in one form or the other no matter how hard the BJP tries to mend these cracks because they relate to conviction and commitment,' saays Kuldip Nayar.

Don't blame Ganesh
Armchair Expert looks at India's showing in Sharjah. And says the beating has proved one thing. --that winning the one-day series against South Africa had, perhaps, everything to do with our pitches.