CBI wants to
prosecute Kaul
Investigators ready with charges against former housing minister.
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RSS: Where does it go from here?
The RSS is struggling to find an identity that will help it play a more meaningful role in the present political scenario. A special report.
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Super Stuff!
Yanni lives up to his billing at his concerts in Agra.
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Congress plans conclave at Vrindavan
Sitaram Kesri has asked top leaders to prepare policy papers to clarify the party’s stand on crucial issues before the conclave in April.
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Kanshi Ram outwits Mulayam, yet again
Mulayam Singh Yadav was busy trying to keep UP Governor Romesh Bhandari in place when Kanshi Ram moved in for the kill.
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''I will sacrifice anything to see Moopanar returning to the Congress'
An interview with K V Thangabalu, newly appointed Tamil Nadu Congress boss.
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Amartya Sen awarded Catalonia Prize
The economist with a conscience wins another accolade for his human rights and literary efforts.
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Kumaratunga wins big victory in local elections in Sri Lanka
The results have exploded the myth that any major Sinhala party, which came out with significant proposals to resolve the Tamil conflict, would suffer electorally.
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Europe prepares for the Baul invasion
Famed Indian singer Paban Das Baul awaits Monday, March 24, with eager anticipation -- it is then that his debut solo album Real Sugar is scheduled to hit the markets.
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MARCH 22

Courting Kanshi
The Bharatiya Janata Party now wants a national alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party.
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The Politics of Blood
How the CPI-M-RSS clashes have provoked murder and mayhem in Kerala.
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Mayawati sworn in as UP chief minister
"My first priority is to establish the rule of law," she says.
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All issues but sovereignty and secularism to be discussed with Pak: Gujral
Fifty years after Independence, says External Affairs Minister I K Gujral, India is in a mood of positive optimism which it wants to share with its neighbours.
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Top Kashmiri separatist willing to settle for greater autonomy. For now
"Greater autonomy cannot be the final solution, but an attempt in finding a realistic solution," says Azam Inquilabi
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Time not right to declare line of actual control as international border: US scholar
The Kashmir issue, says Richard N Haass, should be put on the backburner while the two countries take initiatives to improve relations in economic, trade, tourism and investment.
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Kerala police registers case against Karunakaran in palm oil case
The former chief minister and Congress leader is in deep trouble.
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Supreme Court refers Cauvery Waters issue to five judge bench
Will a judicial response resolve the decades-old dispute?
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India needs Iran's friendship in its efforts to normalise relations with Pakistan
Former foreign secretary J N Dixit on the emerging Indo-Iranian nexus.
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MARCH 21

Will it last?
Can Mayawati and Kalyan Singh work together? Will the BJP-BSP government in Uttar Pradesh last?
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Fear of SP plot forced BJP, BSP hand
Mulayam Singh Yadav, BSP leaders feared, would try and split their party.
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Mulayam Singh summons party officials to take stock of UP developments
Kanshi Ram has promised venegance against the Union defence minister.
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Agra is suddenly acquiring a nightlife, and the locals are gaining new respect for the monument in their backyard
Rediff On The NeT was invited to a preview of the Yanni concert.
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Yanni faces the music
They got little when Yanni used their fields. But when the Greek composer came to meet them, the farmers hailed him.
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India makes unilateral travel concessions for Pakistanis
External Affairs Minister I K Gujral announces a goodwill gesture as a prelude for next week's summit.
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MPs to visit Orissa to review drought aid
Bad use of huge relief funds could spell doom for the hungry tribals.
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Delhi high court upholds ban on trade in snake skin, fur and imported ivory
This is a landmark verdict in the history of wildlife protection in this country.
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MARCH 20

The Grand Alliance
The Bahujan Samaj Party-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government in Uttar Pradesh will be sworn in on Friday.
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Going, going...
Governor Romesh Bhandari's exit from UP is imminent.
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Congress to initiate disciplinary action against UP leader
...Unless rebel Congress Legislature Party leader Naresh Agarwal retracts his election as CLP leader.
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Song & Spectacle
Yanni will open Thursday's concert with a 11-minute long song called Deliverance which is specially dedicated to the Taj.
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CBI questions Arun Nehru in Bofors case
The former minister admits to a meeting with the Swedish envoy.
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Pakistan has enough uranium to build 15 nuclear bombs
In addition, it appears to be building a capacity to manufacture missiles indigenously with Chinese assistance.
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TADA court sentences Kalpnath Rai's secretary, East West employee to five years in prison
The judge also fines East West Airlines Rs 50,000 for its role in the case.
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Court still to decide on Mahato turning approver
The judge asks magistrate to record former Jharkhand MP's statement first.
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Govt committed to maximum autonomy for J&K
... Within the framework of the Constitution, of course.
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Army believes foreign hostages in Kashmir are alive
"In such matters one must never lose hope," says Lt General S Padmanabhan.
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Superstition hampers hunt for man-eating wolves
The fear of divine wrath makes villagers shoo away man-eaters instead of killing them.
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'Benazir talks rubbish. She is highly immature and so was her father'
Continuing our interview with General Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistan's former army chief.
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MARCH 19

Cul-de-Sac!
The CBI is trapped in a blind alley in the Bofors case.
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'Farooq Abdullah is nobody to say that Pakistan should take this and India should take this'
General Gul Hassan Khan, Pakistan's former army chief, speaks out in an exclusive interview.
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Children detained in Pak return home next week
Goodwill gesture by Pak before bilateral talks; External affairs ministry officials to pick up kids.
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Right time for Indo-Pak talks says top Sharief aide
Captain Taj Mohammad Khanzada of INA fame is now the Pakistan prime minister's closest aide.
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No evidence to try Advani, Shukla in hawala case: counsel
The Central Bureau of Investigation does not have enough to pursue the case, counsel Kapil Sibal tells court.
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Mahato loses right to address court in MPs bribery case
The former JMM MP does not mind even if the request to turn approver is turned down.
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CBI chargesheets Sukh Ram in telecom case
Court to take cognisance on March 26 in the Rs 16.8 telecom scam.
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Rajiv Gandhi assassination case rages on
Defence in criminal cases wants to quiz witnesses in the conspiracy case.
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Kesri yields ground to dissidents at CPP meeting
The Congress president says he will soon hold organisational elections.
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Too many schools threaten to wreck Goa's education set-up
Huge education outlay leads to mushrooming of unnecessary schools.s
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Pak court gives women victory but threatens rights
Women's rights activists are planning to appeal against the judgment in the supreme court.
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Pak President Leghari clamps down on press
The police are to seize unauthorised newspapers and destroy them.
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MARCH 18

In a historical judgment, a TADA court in Delhi sentences former Union minister Kalpnath Rai to ten years in prison.
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Rai makes judicial history
He becomes the first former federal minister to be so jailed.
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Rai verdict, bad omen for other politicians
Shivers go down the spine of the many politicians facing trial in several cases and courts.
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The judge who took on Parliament and politicians
Profiling Judge S N Dhingra who sent Kalpnath Rao to prison.
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Flight delay, customs hold-up, missing baggage.... Typical Indian welcome for Yanni
But he could still sign autographs, chuckling at the thought that he too had lost his luggage when he last came to India. True grit, that’s Yanni for you.
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Supreme Court clears Yanni concert
The Union government assures apex court that the Taj will not be affected.
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Political parties asked to set up human rights cells
The NHRC has requested major parties and some regional parties to designate a senior leader to inform it about human rights violations.
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RSS wants to launch 'second war of independence' against MNCs
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh has denounced the United Front government for permitting multinationals to enter infrastructure areas like power sector and telecommunications.
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Shailendra Mahato turns approver against Narasimha Rao in JMM case
"Please help us and we will help you," the then premier is alleged to have told the Jharkhand leaders.
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Jalandhar blast had ISI backing: agencies
The Laskhar-e-Taiba, the militant group allegedly involved in Friday's bomb blast in Jalandhar is backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate
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Reds chide govt for failing to keep poll promises
The Communists write to the PM, reminding him of unfulfilled promises in the common minimum programme.
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India may review stand on chemical weapons
Major signatories must first ratify CWC treaty, Parliament told.
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How Stalin sent three Gandhians to the gallows...
Now the story can be told.
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India, Pak spending too much on defence: former Pak air chief
There is no need for India or Pakistan to spend so much on defence, says Air Marshal Asghar Khan.
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The issue at hand required that India join hands with all, even criminals, because it was confronted with the mother of all criminals -- Pakistan
Chitra Subramaniam concludes her hilarious account of how Kashmir was 'saved' in Geneva.
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