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The five-day strike, which had crippled cargo handling in 11 major ports, was withdrawn after an agreement was reached with the government on Saturday night.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.

NEWS
Armed forces pull out all stops for grand R-Day parade
For the first time, four Param Vir Chakras will also be awarded on the occasion. Another army officer will be awarded the Ashok Chakra, the peacetime equivalent of the PVC, for laying down his life in the fight against terrorism in Kashmir.

NEWS
NDA close to agreement on Bihar seats
The BJP has agreed to contest 160 of the 324 seats, the Samata Party a maximum of 120, and the Janata Dal (United) a maximum of 40, according to top BJP sources. The agreement has only been held up by the question of who will relinquish 10-12 seats for the smaller partners.

SPORTS
Aus pull off a sizzler at the MCG
Chasing 261, Pak seemed to be sitting pretty on 200/4. Trouble with this Aussie side, though, is they don't know when to give up -- as the going got tougher, so did they. Pak lost the next six wickets for 45, and with it,the match. Prem Panicker reports.

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.

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: good news 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.