NEWS
3 killed, 20 hurt in Jammu bomb blast
A group of angry people protesting against the blast began throwing stones on the police who used batons to chase away the protestors.

BUSINESS
Controlled aggro!
Bulls, FIIs take market indices on a tour of rarefied heights.

NEWS
Government orders probe into Sukhoi deal
A newspaper alleged that Rs 10 billion ($232 million) had been paid in bribes to clinch the contract and the jets delivered so far were not SU-30s at all, but actually SU-27 trainers.

NEWS
Cabinet panel reviews Pak buildup on LoC
Defence sources maintained that they do not expect any confrontation immediately. 'It is merely a game plan being executed before President Clinton's visit.'

NEWS
Franco-Indian ties set for boom time
The new relationship is wider and deeper and is developing at all levels -- from heads of state down to the level of bureaucrats -- and cuts through several sectors -- politics, economics, defence, culture, and science and technology.

INFOTECH
'Manpower is the key'
MIT scientist and futurologist Michael L Dertouzous believes that this, rather than dotcoms, could make a difference in India.

MOVIES
'We aren't making quality movies'
A rare interview with Danny Denzongpa.

BOOKS
Burning widows alive
Deepa Mehta should read Rammohan Roy's views on widows before throwing Water on religious fires, writes Ashok Banker.

MESSAGE BOARD
'It is only useless issues that come into the picture'
Readers respond to the Water controversy.

DIARY
'Lord, I surrender to you!'
'The bus came. I was about to get in. Then I saw the flags -- fluttering saffron flags! More than 25 of them. The conference was here after all!' The diary of an intrepid reporter.

COLUMNS
Fringe in the mainstream
'No longer consigned to the margins of public discourse, assertive cultural nationalism is the dominant visage of the times, and is worn with pride by the sea of semitized Hindus we're warned about often and forever. The trouble is, we are the people we are being asked to beware of, and predictably, not many are buying,' says Ashwin Mahesh.

Congress caught in vicious cycle
'The Nehru-Gandhi cannot lead the Congress to power, but the Congress has forgotten how to live without the family,' says T V R Shenoy.

Domestic cricket damned
Dilip Vengsarkar laments the decline of India's domestic cricket and blames the board for not looking at ways to improve it.