NEWS
Paris prepares for Narayanan's visit
It is the first-ever journey by an Indian President to France, even though French presidents have visited India on four occasions in the last 30 years.

NEWS
Naidu spends millions on Clinton's comfort
The Andhra Pradesh chief minister has attracted flak from Left parties, women's groups and social activists for spending Rs 80 million for 165 minutes of the US president's time.

SPECIAL
Is Clinton safe in Pakistan?
'Given the surcharged atmosphere in the Indian subcontinent, it will not be beyond imagination to apprehend that blame for any untoward incident in Pakistan will be put squarely in the Indian lap,' fears Colonel Anil Athale (retd).

NEWS
Hurriyat to press for arbitrator on JK
But acting chairman Omar Farooq "fears" the Government of India would try to stop the APHC leaders from meeting US President Bill Clinton during his visit.

SLIDESHOW
Change of Guard
Last week marked an unusual transition in the RSS when the ailing Professor Rajendra Singh stepped down as sarsanghchalak.

CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR: PART 4
The DRDO has succeeded with missiles, but...
'The anti-ballistic missile programme will languish like the nuclear submarine project, which the DRDO has been working on for years now,' a defence ministry official comments wryly.

THE CLINTON VISIT
The Americans are coming!
'Clinton's visit down south will be an affirmation of not just the shift in emphasis from politics to economics (and within that a move from traditional industry to high tech -- or in Americanese, from Dow to Nasdaq), but also a celebration of India's growing strength as a federation,' feels S B Ramanujam.

BUSINESS
Enter: Entrepreneurs!
Cyberabad's Net crowd is in a rush to avail Budget benefits.

MOVIES
'I have never taken stardom seriously'
Rekha. Like never before.

MEMOIR
Run, Rabbit, Run
'My father is going to die tomorrow, at 10.30 am. That's when the doctors are finally, mercifully, going to disconnect his life-support system. He is in the ICU on this, the last night of his life, and I am lying on a bench in the hospital lobby downstairs.' Anvarali Khan's moving memoir.

SPORTS
Pawar, Powar power Bombay into semis
The spinning duo equally shared all the 10 wickets in Bengal's second essay in the Ranji Trophy Super League match.

BUSINESS
Millennium Maharajas
Corporates ranging from blue chip MNCs to dot-com start-ups vie for tomorrow's managers at India's premier management institutes.

MONEY
A win-win situation
Short-term investors stand to reap a rich reward with dividends from mutual funds having been made tax-free. Yet, the best way is to draw dividends and remain invested for a long time.

BOOKS
Was Water nicked?
Ashok Banker on the latest controversy over Deepa Mehta's script.

COLUMN
Just the medicine the team needed
Victory in the third ODI was a shot in the arm for his team, says Hansie Cronje.

COLUMN
'New economy' stocks
Devangshu Datta wonders how the Indian investor will benefit from the rage in new economy stocks if new firms in the ICE sector go in for a Nasdaq listing.