NEWS
Kargil panel blames military intelligence, local commanders
Officials told rediff.com that the report has 'given less blame' to the Intelligence Bureau and that MI and the local army unit in Kargil 'share the major rap'. The report's thrust, however, is on the measures to be taken to counter any such crises in future.

BUSINESS
Top Secret!
Budget 2000 gets unusual hi-tech security cover. Not even the prime minister is given more than a glimpse of the details! And finance ministry officials' emails are being watched.

INTERVIEW
'My name will be there on the pages of history'
'It's one and the same. Whether he becomes CM or me. We are not separate.' Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on demitting office in favour of her husband.

NEWS
Masood Azhar emerging as prime mover of insurgency in Kashmir
His brother Abdur Rauf, who serves as a confidant, denies that Azhar is in custody. "He is busy in consultations with religious and Jihadi leaders somewhere near Islamabad."

NEWS
President calls for tough economic measures
Addressing both houses of Parliament in the Central Hall, K R Narayanan said India can truly hope to achieve more than 7% growth in the coming years if the country achieves fiscal consolidation by taking difficult economic decisions.

50 YEARS OF THE INDIAN REPUBLIC
'Parliamentary democracy should not be tinkered with'
'If parliamentary democracy does not constitute the basic structure of the Constitution, what else can?' asks Justice K Punnaiah, a member of the Constitution Review Committee.

SPECIAL
'There is no shared literary culture in India'
Pankaj Mishra, author, critic, columnist, on Rediff Chat.

MARKET REPORT
Mkts@Feb 23: Sensex drops 243 points
There was panic selling in software and pivotals, and volatility was at its peak.

NEWS
Dohibar: where not many are left to vote
'How will there be?' asks a woman, who has just cast her vote. 'The people here have all died.'

BUSINESS
Unkept promises litter Sinha's Budget 1999
The target for divestment was Rs 100 billion. But how much of the government stake in PSUs has Sinha divested? Less than Rs 20 billion!

MONEY
'What is the tax treatment for an NRI selling his stock options of a company listed in India?'
Answers to this and more NRI tax questions.

MOVIES
Clash on the beach
On the sets of Josh, with Shah Rukh and Ash.

MUSIC
On top of the world
Presenting Garbage, which continues its success story with The World Is Not Enough, the chartbuster title track from the latest Bond flick.

COLUMN
A drain inspector's report
'I am sure there are many lonely wives finding solace in each other's arms. I am sure there are many poor widows in Varanasi whoring for a livelihood. There is no shame in admitting that. But surely there is much more to India today than its failures, its aberrations,' says Pritish Nandy.

COLUMN
'If I don't put handcuffs, you may grab a pen and kill me'
Rajeev Srinivasan on the INS's abominable treatment of 40 Indian software developers in San Antonio.