NEWS
Port workers call off strike, resume duty
The five-day strike, which had crippled cargo handling in 11 major ports, was withdrawn after an agreement was reached with the government on Saturday night. The workers resumed duty at 0600 IST on Sunday.

SPECIAL
Staines's wife, daughter try to rebuild their lives around his work
Galdys Staines has no plans to leave Baripada. She is currently working on a proposal to build a forty-bed hospital in her husband's memory.

INTERVIEW
'We oppose trifurcating UPSEB because we know it will lead to privatisation'
'Today the government is talking about the second generation of reforms, but can it tell us the balance sheet of the first? Have such reforms served the public?' CITU leader W R Vardha Rajan, in an a hard-hitting interview.

NEWS
'All I want is that the killers of my husband be hanged'
Sikhs expect little from the new commission ordered to probe the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, except, perhaps, revenge.

NEWS
CPI-M 'exploits' cadres to start TV channel
Party leaders allege Asianet has become pro-BJP. The party says this does not augur well for it especially when the state is preparing to go for assembly elections early next year.

BUSINESS
Cogentrix confirms pull-out; China Light and Power seeks Indian partner
'We will go ahead and complete the [Mangalore power] project,' a CLP official said. 'A new partner will be shortlisted in 15 days.'

MONEY
'Is the money I saved on a business trip to the US taxable in India?'
Answers to this and many other NRI-related personal tax issues.

MOVIES
'Three Roshans have put their best foot forward'
Rakesh Roshan on the Rediff Chat.

MOVIES
'Jayaraj has done all of us proud'
Kerala film-makers celebrate as Karunam wins the Golden Peacock.

COLUMNS
Rao returns
Capital Buzz. Gossip from the Delhi Durbar.

China doesn't matter
'I believe China is in much more parlous shape than is generally believed. I think China has been brilliant only in one thing -- propaganda. It has managed to convince a gullible America that it is a very important nation.' The first of Rajeev Srinivasan's columns on the subject.

Online trading: glad tidings for small investors
Despite the reforms, brokers are still under-capitalised and may be driven out of business by online trading. Retail investors could make the markets vibrant again, says R C Murthy.

MacGill magnificent
Steve Waugh says the legspinner is the biggest turner of the ball in world cricket.

When the tough fluff
Pakistan have them and so does Australia. But among the Indians there's none who can stand up and be counted, says Harsha Bhogle.

Sparing the rod
Non-performance is not as grave as indiscipline, says Cedric D'Souza, particularly among team officials. And it's time the IHF took a serious view of such acts.