NEWS
Karmapa Lama flees China, enters India
Tibet's third highest spiritual authority, a 14-year-old boy, crossed the Himalayas with a few attendants, avoiding the Chinese military patrols manning the long border with India.

NEWS
Nepal confirms ISI hand in fake currency racket
The huge consignment of fake Indian currency seized from a Pakistani embassy official on January 2 could only have been printed at a national security press, probably of the Pakistani government, sources in Nepal's administration said.

INTERVIEW
'If we can improve life in Bangalore, then the same lessons can be implemented elsewhere'
'There is an opportunity here to make a difference, and one has the wherewithal in terms of time and money. If one is able to achieve something with all this, it would be really wonderful,' says Nandan Nilekani, managing director, Infosys Technologies.

INTERVIEW
'We regard the Samata Party as a mitra'
Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav says the party is confident that things will work out for it finally.

SPECIAL
Pakistan's role in the hijack
The Taleban were openly telling the diplomatic corps that they were in no position to withstand the pressure being mounted on them by Islamabad. If they did anything to help India, Pakistan could destabilise the entire Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

INFOTECH
Court of mail
Karnataka CM S M Krishna uses the Net to keep in touch with the citizenry.

SPORTS
Triangular dossier
India, Pakistan and Australia fight it out in a one-day series beginning Sunday. Mohandas Menon figures out how the teams stack up against one another.

SPORTS
Analyse this
An impartial look at Sachin the captain and batsman, and Sachin the master batsman.

MOVIES
Aamir is the star attraction
And the saving grace of Mela.

MOVIES
'I was studying to be a plumber'
Juhi Chawla's hilarious answers on The Rediff Chat.

COLUMNS
The arithmetic of a hijacking
'It took more than 48 hours for the country's Crisis Management Group to come to grips with the problem. Since when have babus been able to manage a crisis? It is the country's misfortune to have an Intelligence Bureau without intelligent people,' says Admiral J G Nadkarni (retd).

Mr Considerate
'Nothing, repeat nothing, should be done to jeopardise the passengers' lives, the prime minister ordered.' Capital Buzz. Gossip from the Delhi durbar.

Natural talent must flow
India have the ideal venue and timing for their opening match against Pakistan. But to win must, says Bobby Simpson, they must cast off the negative shadow which clouded their play during the Test series against Australia.

No letting up
India and Pakistan, says Steve Waugh, will both be looking for revenge -- the former for the Test series defeat and the latter for that of the World Cup final -- in the triangular series. And his Australians will do everything to keep their reputation intact.

Nets result
Abhilasha Khaitan looks back at three Tests worth of inactivity. And forward, to an ODI series that promises more of the same. And ponders on the life and hard times of that unwept, unsung, unhonoured individual -- the extra in a team.

Back-door entry for Champions
Cedric D'Souza questions the FIH's decision to give Pakistan a place in the Champions Trophy, to be staged in Amstelveen, despite the team finishing at the bottom in the last edition of the tournament.