'National politics has
become devalued today'
Dr Subramanian Swamy, in a scorching interview.
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Deve Gowda to meet chief ministers to fight railway crime
The recent spate of dacoities on Bihar's trains has focused national attention on such crimes.
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Sound, light won't affect Taj, dust will, says pollution board
Are the Yanni concert organisers flouting Supreme Court directives?
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Vaghela's political advisor ditches him, will contest election against CM
The Gujarat chief minister is in deep, deep trouble.
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Bhandari angry with Mulayam about chief secretary's conduct
Another episode in Uttar Pradesh's theatre of the absurd.
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Three Naga underground groups to hold talks with govt
For the first time there is hope for an end to the decades-long Naga problem.
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Australian cabbies find the driving tough
Sydney has the most educated taxi drivers in the world.
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No one dared ask Bhutta how she could make such accusations when in her country women were half human beings and where minorities were treated like dogs
Continuing Chitra Subramaniam's hilarious account of how Kashmir was 'saved' in Geneva.
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MARCH 15

The Battle for Kashmir
Chitra Subramaniam's hilarious account of how Kashmir was 'saved' in Geneva.
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Supreme Court can still veto Yanni concert
"The court can be convinced even one day before the concert, since it is a question of preserving a national heritage," says the counsel for the petitioners.
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'The reason I like to perform in places like the Taj is because
they remind us of the greatness of mankind'
Yanni will arrive in Delhi on Sunday, four days before his historic concert at the Taj Mahal.
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Seven people killed in a bomb blast at Jalandhar
This is the first act of terrorism after the Akal Dal-BJP government took charge in Punjab.
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Veerendra Patil, Karnataka politician, dies at 73
Twice the state's chief minister, he was considered a fine administrator.
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'For the first time India looks less like a tortoise and more like a tiger'
Nani Palkhivala on the shape of things to come in the Indian economy.
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AIADMK, DMK united on issue of militant activity
Interrogation of the two arrested members of the fundamentalist organisation Al-Uma showed they were planning bomb blasts in Madras similar to the ones in Bombay in March 1993.
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Mother Teresa wants to expand into China
"I have plenty of work to do," she tells her first press conference after her successor's election.
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Goa to broaden pension rules for elected representatives
Legislators with only two years in the assembly may draw pensions too.
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Last of the Royal Bengal tigers may fade away in ten years
Poaching in the Sunderbans continues unabated.
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Congressional Caucus on India to raise India's stock in US
A group of 80 US Congressmen proposes to undertake an aggressive campaign to ensure India a central place in America's foreign policy,
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MARCH 14

A legend steps down
The Missionaries of Charity elect Sister Nirmala as Mother Teresa's successor.
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'She is a very nice and kind sister'
Sister Nirmala is seen as a competent successor to Mother Teresa.
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'I know Sister Nirmala very well and she is an able administrator'
Mother Teresa's biographer Navin Chawla on the succession.
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The Angel of Hope
Mother Teresa has, long since, gone beyond the descriptive bounds of the phrase 'human being', transcended it and become, somehow, both person and movement, symbol and inspiration, force and direction.
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The Joy in Loving
Some reflections on life by Mother Teresa.
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Plot to kill Thackeray foiled
The Bombay police claim they have arrested a man who was conspiring to blow up the Shiv Sena leader's home in suburban Bombay.
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Violence in Srinagar over alleged custodial deaths
Security forces arrested all top leaders of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference who sat on a hunger strike against the alleged custodial deaths of four leaders of the separatist Hizbul Mujaheed on Thursday.
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CPI angry at Mulayam Singh's 'slight'
The Communist Party of India's Uttar Pradesh unit has urged its national leadership not to stomach the 'insult' which the United Front dished out by ignoring to invite the party for the Allahabad rally.
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Chargesheet against Rao invalid, claims counsel
Since MPs don't hold office, acceptance of money cannot be construed as a bribe says the former premier's lawyer.
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Evidence against Advani in hawala case 'bogus'
Loose sheet with the BJP leader's name just hearsay says counsel Ram Jethmalani
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US 'encouraged' by Indo-Pak talks
Robin Raphel urges neighbours not to do anything that will escalate tensions.
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Nayanar govt under heavy fire from CPI-M bigwigs
The Marxists in Kerala criticise their party's government for its errant ways.
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LTTE's image eroding in Sri Lanka
The rebel group is finding it difficult to assert its credibility.
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Guyanese president Cheddi Jagan cremated
The last of the island's celebrated leaders of Indian origin passes into the ages.
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Old hat, says expert of Hale-Bopp comet 'discovery'
The comet was mentioned in an Indian book 1,500 years ago, says director of Varanasi observatory.
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MARCH 13

Withdrawal from Siachen?
India and Pakistan may withdraw its troops from the glacier as a gesture towards peace during the foreign secretary-level talks.
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The New Outcastes
Fear and loathing in a picturesque village in Kerala's Malappuram district.
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Jain diaries not book of accounts: CBI
The agency does a volte face in the hawala case.
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Govt working to thwart ISI: Minister
Secessionist organisations receiving foreign funds to be issued notices by government agencies.
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49 per cent of Goa's expenditure is non-productive
The state squanders its wealth on government officials.
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Mishra fears Kesri is delaying Congress organisational polls
The rebels are restive and further trouble is expected for the Congress chief.
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Osmania U tense after student leader's death
Marxists-Leninists warn ABVP that more of its leaders will die.
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Excavation reveals Harappans did not define Copper Age
Digs in Rajasthan shows earlier Chalcolithic civilisation.
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MQM drops demand for own governor in Sind
The party gives Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharief a reprieve.
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US resists threats to its powers in UN
Washington is not against expansion of Security Council, only inclusion of developing nations.
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All for the love of Punjabi literature...
Norio Okaguchi, a Japanese teacher, can probably out-speak and out-write most natives.
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MARCH 12

'Why should I quit?'
UP Governor Romesh Bhandari remains defiant.
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And Justice For All
A new draft Bill on prison reform being finalised by India's home ministry has advocated humane treatment and protection of prisoners lodged in various jails across the country.
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Tamil Nadu police seizes arms in raid on Al Uma hideout
"Catastrophe averted" with first seizure of arms from non-Sri Lankan militants.
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Charkhi Dadri collision report expected this weekend
Final report expected only after hearing Kazakh, Saudia versions Judge R C Lahoti tells Rediff On The NeT..
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Strong case to try Narasimha Rao says investigating agency
The CBI says there is sufficient evidence to prove charges against the former PM in the JMM bribes for votes case.
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New power equations emerge in Tamil Nadu
Will the AIADMK align with the MDMK?
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Appeal for release of 200 Indian children rotting in Pak jails
Will the issue be discussed during Pakistan foreign secretary's visit, asks former minister.
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Mixed Chakma reaction to Bangladesh's repatriation plan
'I don't know if I have to take up arms,' says one refugee.
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Lokendra Bahadur Chand is new Nepal premier
He has a month to prove his majority.
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Lawyer, writer and part-time premier
Nepal's new PM is a man of many talents.
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Bangla govt to set up 460 rural courts
These grameen courts would ensure speedy justice to the rural people and make it available at a much lesser expense than now.
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The Indian war hero who stood up to the Nazis
Told at last: The amazing story of the Indian who was captured by the Nazis.
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MARCH 11

'Install popular govt in UP'
Recalling Governor Romesh Bhandari is not the solution, says Home Minister Indrajit Gupta.
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CPI, however, wants Bhandari to go
''If a person is found delinquent on a number of occasions, the best course is to dispense with him," CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta told the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
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'The US will never support the creation of Khalistan'
Professor Robert Goheen, the India-born former US ambassador to India, in an exclusive interview.
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Ample evidence to try Advani, Shukla, CBI tells Supreme Court
The counsel argues there are enough documents mentioning the BJP president and the former Congress leader.
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India, Pakistan jurists clash over terrorism in Kashmir
Only the Pakistan chief justice's intervention prevents an ugly scene.
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Kerala excise minister in hot water with Church over alleged remarks about Christ
Did Excise Ministry Sivadas Menon speak badly of Jesus?
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'Reservation not guaranteed if one parent is from scheduled castes'
The community where the child grows up is more important says Union welfare minister.
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Oomen Chandy's crusade gives Congress a boost in Kerala
The ruling Left Democratic Front is put on the backfoot by A K Antony's trusted lieutenant.
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Ban on newspapers clears way for official media in Kashmir
But the common man is not certain he know what is happening.
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Bhutto elected party chief for life
The election counters rumours that she was about to give up the presidency of the Pakistan People's Party .
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Love marriages valid says Pak court
A historic judgment helps couple stay together, despite threats.
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Report seconds World Bank plea to privatise water supply
People, says the International Food Policy Research Insitute, must pay more for water so as to conserve it.
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