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  June 4, 2001               Today's News Search the Internet
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   Anil Sharma
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   Ashok Amritraj
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   7 June, 2001, 2100 EDT
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   The Wintech
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   American Business Club:    a new face, a new goal

   How we built
   Infosys from scratch

   Firms go back on job
   offers, students panic

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  Will Keerti's jadoo work?

  Akshay: Brain
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  Madhuri: The big
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  Dimple Kapadia,
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   'Shararat not a mere film!'

  Lessons from Cannes

  Javed Akhtar, extempore!

  'I'm not a music director!'

   The other side
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   Getting comfortable with
   Abhishek Bachchan

   The star-spangled
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   'Urmila has soul,
   Kareena has depth'

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   Unholy smoke

   Thou shalt not rule!

   Thou shalt not rule!

   'There will be no need
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   Will Gen Musharraf visit
   his ancestral house?

   These lizards are yummy!

   The Big B's Scribble

   The elusive Search for
   Veerappan

   'No force can stop
   Telangana formation'

   CEC Dr M S Gill
   reflects on his tenure

   Now tell, can
   you beat me?

   'Pakistan should be
   ready for war'

   'I am not a dictator':
   A K Antony

   India's shameful
   debacle

   I can FLY!'

   How the East
   was lost

   'The cease-fire
   was a big joke'

   India-China War
   The untold story'

   'We can never push the
    agenda of any party'

   Of monkeys and the
   Monkey Man

   'God save the Tamils!'

   News Specials

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   Pakis on fire

   The fourth umpire

   Sachin: Another crown

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   Cricket in a Kimono

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   'Tennis has become
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DEATH OF A MONARCH
Condition of four wounded royals 'satisfactory'
Kumar Gorakh Samsher, husband of late King Birendra's daughter Shruti, Princess Komal, Princess Shobha and Ketaki could provide vital clues about the shootout episode.

Mystery of massacre perpetrator deepens: PTI
Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Paudel withdrew his earlier statement, which was widely quoted, that crown prince Dipendra had shot dead the royal family.

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 High alert along Indo-Nepal
 border: PTI

 28 feared drowned
 in Bulandshahr: PTI

 Paes-Bhupathi in quarters

 We're ready to discuss Kashmir
 with Musharraf: PM

 Britain expresses sorrow

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How to lose
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Royal family killed by automatic weapon: Gyanendra
The first official government statement since the bizarre shooting incident made no mention that King Birendra's eldest son Dipendra had fired the automatic weapon.

Nepalese protest against Dipendra, PM, India
On Sunday afternoon, after Indian newspapers reached Kathmandu, protestors began pelting stones at establishments on New Road, angered by a file picture of King Dipendra inspecting a gun.

Indian tourists leaving Kathmandu: PTI
A few claimed they had been abused by Nepali youth in Kathmandu for 'no reason'.

King's gift proved to be royal family's doom
Reliable sources said it was an Uzi submachine-gun that Birendra had gifted his son that was used to kill 12 members of the royal family.

'Missing' PM heightened fears of a coup
Girija Prasad Koirala could not be traced for almost seven hours after he went into the royal palace late on Friday night on learning of the murders.

I don't know what is happening to my country: Manisha
To say that Dipendra had killed his kin because they wouldn't allow his marriage does not sound convincing, said the actress.

Eton schoolmates remember playboy prince
Dipendra's house master at the elite school felt his murderous streak was out of character. But his schoolboy contemporaries revealed his dark side.

Nepal dazed by royal tragedy
The man on the street is confused and dazed, unable to digest the wiping out of almost the entire royal clan.

The King Birendra Obituary:
A friend to India

INTERVIEW
'The tragedy won't affect Indo-Nepal relations'
King Birendra was interested in good relations with India, says Prof Bimal Prasad, former ambassador to Nepal.

NEWS
Hizb wants India, Pak to adopt realistic approach on Kashmir: PTI
Hizb commander Abdul Majid Dar admitted that the prime minister's invitation to Gen Musharraf had taken the militants by surprise.

SPECIAL
On the banks of Sindhu, Mogambo is happy
Savera R Someshwar reports on the Sindhu Darshan festival in Leh.

US NEWS
Yoga, friends give missing girl's parents solace
Susan Levy still thinks Chandra will be returned to her safe and sound and a pilgrimage to India could work out.

Pallone urges PM to take up Pandits' case
The US lawmaker says Kashmiri Pandits are living lives shorn of basic dignity.

Illinois gets an Indian American judge
Bangalore-born Rena Marie Van Tine considers her selection a natural extension of her career in public service. 'I like people and I feel I can make a difference,' she said.

TiE to discuss survival in trying times
'In the slow economy, we want to turn this negative, where people are rethinking their businesses into a positive, by showing value,' says Jnan Dash, content chair for TiEcon 2001.

MONEY
No layoffs at Infosys
The company plans to recruit up to 2,000 techies for its expansion plans.

MONEY SPECIAL
Concrete set to replace salt
The government has freed Bombay's salt pans for housing purposes. Will this help rehabilitate squatters or is it just a move to help the builders' lobby?

SPORTS
Uma steers clear of cricket with Pakistan
The Union minister for sports said the matter would be decided by Prime Minister Vajpayee and Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf at their summit.

CRICKET
India in command
After dismissing the opposition for 192, India chose to bat again instead of enforcing the follow-on.

GUIDE TO THE NET
120,000 Internet sites blacklisted
The sexiest man is Britain is a pop star, and now, are we going to have cheerleader wars?

COLUMN
To Pervez With Love
Who really fashioned that historic epistle that took the Pakistan chief executive's bark away? Capital Buzz.

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  PTI News
 Birendra's aunt shocked

 Birendra's teacher in tears

 STF files FIR against
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  Money & Business
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 Moody's 'disappointed'
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 Indian fiscal deficit
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 DPC suggests split tariff plan

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 Paul Condon warns of
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 Pak refutes match-fixing
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 Dhanraj launches green
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 China flirts with defeat

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 Will you get
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 'It's an indescribable high!'

 A jet engine for your laptop

 The Changing Face of NYC

 Down the Road
 with Huien Tsang

 The Reluctant Hero Walks

 The Wordsmith's tale

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  Guide to the Net
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  Indian youth ready to network

 A web page a day...

 The world's first pregnant man!

 Wanted alive!

 Human meat for sale

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  Columnists
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 Anil A Athale on
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 S Gopikrishna on
 Afghanistan

 Pritish Nandy on
 Salman Khan

 Brahma Chellaney on
 inviting Musharraf

 Rajeev Srinivasan on
 containing China.

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