NEWS
Gujarat withdraws RSS circular
BJP general secretaries K N Govindacharya and M Venkaiah Naidu flew to Gandhinagar and persuaded the government to withdraw the controversial circular.

NEWS
After Rule 184, Bihar-itis hits Parliament
Bihar rocked Parliament today, after the government backtracked and agreed to a discussion under Rule 184 on the RSS issue, which had so far paralysed both Houses.

NEWS
Sedapatti Muthiah gets RI for corruption
Special Judge-1 S Sambandam convicted and sentenced the former Tamil Nadu assembly speaker and his two sons to 25 months' rigorous imprisonment for having wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income.

SPORTS INTERVIEW
'The way we played in the last three months, we can only get better'
'With respect to Sachin, Azhar and me, the important thing is performance,' says Sourav Ganguly, newly appointed India captain.

SPECIAL
C'est la vive!
"Life on aircraft carrier Foch is a unique experience for its 80 officers, 550 chief and petty officers, 700 seamen and recruits, and 450 additional sailors including pilots, technicians and administrators.

SPECIAL
'She was a very fine human being'
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on communist leader Geeta Mukherjee who passed away recently.

INTERVIEW
It was something tough for my family to know I was dropping bombs'
"We had no exact description of what the building we were attacking. Sometimes we would see people outside. But we were too far away to see whether they were civilians or troops." Captain Robin, a French pilot involved in the Kosovo operations, reminisces.

INTERVIEW
'I do not think the government will fall over the RSS issue'
The country has a prime minister who a was a pracharak in the RSS. We have a home minister who was a RSS pracharak. We have a chief minister in Gujarat who was a RSS pracharak. We have a chief minister in Himachal Pradesh who was a RSS pracharak. Our allies understand us much better than what they did in 1979 which led to the fall of the government then," says former Union minister Uma Bharati.

BUDGET 2000
Sinha open to 'review genuine shortcomings, problems and irritants' in Budget
'As far as the dividend tax is concerned, we feel it was necessary to impose this levy... Please live with it as it cannot be rolled back,' the finance minister told Indian industry.

MONEY
Before you buy a house for Mr Biswas
What can be bought? Can the profits on sale be remitted? The NRI guide to buying property in India.

MONEY
Is the P/E dead?
The price-earnings ratio has lost its popularity in the investing community. A report.

MONEY
Using the gold deposit scheme effectively
What is the scheme all about? How much can you earn? Who offers this scheme? A ready reckoner.

BROADBAND
Azza!
The Comeback Artiste. In Real Audio.

MOVIES
'People remember scenes, not episodes'
R Madhavan moves to the big screen with Mani Ratnam's Alaipayuthey.

MOVIES
Khauff gets a cold reception
Even Sanjay's awards don't ensure a good initial.

MOVIES
Pukar gets tax exemption in some areas
Kaho Naa... enters its eighth successful week.

MUSIC
Another musical blast
Phir Dhoom, Euphoria's second album, is not as good as the first. Yet, it reiterates the fact that the band is among the best and most sincere in India.

BOOKS
The search for bogosity ends here
In his startling book, 'Power Play', Abhay Mehta details how India was conned by Enron. They "did what most business houses would have done to secure such a deal." A review by Dilip D'Souza.

COLUMNS
They know what they do
'Laloo Yadav, Chautala and Patnaik are in no way associated with even the thinking of the impoverished. They do not deserve the positions they have reached,' says Kuldip Nayar.

Hail Sinha for offering a Budget for the new economy
'Yashwant Sinha has obviously made up his mind that the future of India lies not in the commodity economy of the past but in the ideas economy of tomorrow,' says Pritish Nandy.

South Africa blessed with balance
Hansie Cronje says his team is blessed with all-rounders who can bat way down the order in the one-dayers starting on Thursday.

Sachin goes the Umrigar way
Appointed captain against his wish. Board official picks player. Captain protests and is cut to size. Threatens to resign. Team loses. Captain resigns. Does all that sound horribly familiar and contemporary? The golden rule of Indian cricket, as Raju Bharatan points out, is that it has all happened before. And will happen again.

Catch-22
Sujata Prakash finds, in the lament that our cricketers are tired because of too much cricket, a matter to muse on.