SPORTS
Ganguly fails to make it to Asia XI
Asia XI squad led by former Pakistani captain Wasim Akram will play Brian Lara-led Rest of the World XI in a one-day match in Dhaka on April 8.

NEWS
10 militants shot dead in Kashmir
A report from Baramulla said Pakistani troops fired mortar and artillery shells at civilian and security installations in Teetwal, Keran and Karnah.

NEWS
Centre may ask Gujarat to withdraw controversial RSS order
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan said the government should be given a day to resolve the issue.

NEWS
CPI to quit Left Front government in Bengal
The decision was taken at the party's state council meeting following the Left Front committee's refusal to field a CPI candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections on March 29.

INTERVIEW
'You must be able to walk your talk'
'Our system encourages corruption. Look at our income tax. The honest taxpayer pays 40 per cent. The black money holder gets a VDIS scheme and pays only 30 per cent!' CVC N Vittal tells Pritish Nandy.

SPECIAL
C'est la guerre!
Josy Joseph was there when the Indian Navy engaged the French in a mock war last week. An exclusive from aboard France's only aircraft carrier, P A Foch.

BUSINESS
Back in action
The Tatas hurtle back into the reckoning for Corporate India's leadership with a clutch of stunning moves and deals.

BUSINESS
Kerry Packer spreads his wings over India, buys 10 pc of Himachal Futuristic
HFCL is also setting up two joint ventures with the Australian media tycoon's Consolidated Press Holdings, marking its foray into information technology and e-commerce businesses.

MONEY
Latest corporate news
Money Channel introduces RISC -- the latest coporate announcements, courtesy BSE-Dun & Bradstreet India.
• ICICI Bank seeks approval for international issue
• Gramophone Company allots 700,000 equity shares at Rs 1785 per share
• Global Tele-Systems changes name of its 100% subsidiary

MONEY
Getting money from assets
Larissa Fernand explains how you can raise money by taking loans, mortgages or overdrafts on your assets --without selling them.

MONEY
Your guide to home insurance
Insuring the roof, windows, valuables, panes, jewellery, paintings... what do you have to pay and how do you claim it?

MONEY
Credit, Charge or Debit?
What are each of these cards about and which one suits you the best? A ready reckoner.

MOVIES
'It is always better to work with friends'
Mahesh Manjrekar on Namrata Shirodkar. And Astitva.

SPORTS
'If I want to do something for myself, I think I should be allowed to do that'
The concluding part of Mohammad Azharuddin's interview.

MUSIC
'One's talent is just a drop in the ocean'
Thumri exponent Shobha Gurtu in conversation.

COLUMNS

The hell where youth and laughter go...
'Even though they were students, all of them had faced enemy fire... But we worried over how the constraints of political correctness would let them operate freely in situations of unconventional warfare,' says Varsha Bhosle.

If it is really so 'basic', why fear to define secularism
'While the BJP itself has never given any inkling whatsoever that it wants the review for its own cause, the 'secular' press of ours has imagined it so out of its neurotic allergy for the Sangh Parivar,' says Arvind Lavakare.

The scourge of dud cheques
'There are almost 40,000 cases in courts around the country which have blocked up several hundreds of crores of rupees,' says Sucheta Dalal.