NEWS
Naveen Patnaik retains home, IT
A twenty-five-member two-tier coalition government comprising 16 ministers from the Biju Janata Dal led by Patnaik and nine from the Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

NEWS
India's first hijacker wants to return home
Hashim Qureshi, the man who hijacked an Indian Airlines flight from Srinagar to Lahore in 1971 and blew it up after releasing the passengers, says he is missing his roots.

NEWS
Allies want foodgrain, fertiliser price increase rolled back
In a memorandum to the prime minister, they said the increase in issue prices of foodgrains distributed through the targeted public distribution system and fertiliser prices by 15 per cent would hit the poor and farmers.

NEWS
NDA will give an eye and ear to split Cong
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's team is going all out in its effort to engineer a split in the 23-strong Congress Legislature Party in Bihar. But its chances seem dim.

NEWS
Fatwa earns Shabana loads of support
Civil rights activists, left parties and prominent religious personalities in Hyderabad have decried the edict issued by five Islamic seminaries against Muslim film stars.

BUSINESS
Thoughts for food
Experts decry India's silence on WTO issues.

SPECIAL
No need for alarm bells to go off
'Shortening a training course means cutting out the "frills"... this may slightly affect the officer's confidence in himself, but nothing to really be alarmed about. Life in the battalion will iron out these wrinkles!' says Colonel (retd) John Taylor.

SPECIAL
Look out, it's changing
'Unless some kind of counter pressure is kept up from outside, the possibility exists of mischief-mongering, such as altering on the sly the main features of the Constitution and thereby rendering India an out and out sectarian, authoritarian, quasi-fascist Hindu kingdom,' says Ashok Mitra.

MONEY
Budget and mutual funds
Budget 2000-01 has brought far-reaching implications for mutual funds. Dhirendra Kumar takes a closer look at the key changes.

BUDGET 2000
'Whatever happened to the Mergers and Acquisitions policy?'
D S Brar, R Ramalinga Raju and Virat Bhatia on the Y2K Budget. In Real Audio.

SPORTS INTERVIEW
'Everyone gets dropped from the side some time or the other. That does not mean relationships get soured'
'I have never had any problems with anybody,' says Mohammad Azharuddin, in the second part of his interview.

MOVIES
'When I see some of my films, I am ashamed'
Manisha Koirala. Frank and forthright.

MOVIES
The hero as a human being
Ajith excels in Mugavari.

BOOKS
'Gandhiji tried to understand his son in his own way, but failed'
'Was Gandhiji at fault? But, as later events proved, Gandhiji could have been correct in his assessment of Harilal,' says Dinkar Joshi, author of Prakashno Padchhayo, on which the controversial play Mahatma vs Gandhi is based.

COLUMNS
More on immigration, race and civil rights in America
'Racism is not the issue, really; it is the self-respect to demand our rights. Otherwise we will lose them in the long run, and racial profiling will begin. Remember that rights only go to those who are vocal,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.

Something to remember for years to come
Hansie Cronje says his present team is more mature and confident than the 1996 team, with Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis, who missed the trip last time, making a difference.