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INDIA
TODAY: September 2003 to December 2003
 December
01, 2003
Made in India
As the US cracks down on India's most wanted criminal, only a systematic
global campaign that puts pressure on Pakistan and the Emirates can dismantle
the D Company's evil syndicate.
 November
24, 2003
Reliving Kargil
With a star-powered cast, a budget conservatively estimated at Rs. 35
crore and over 1,000 real soldiers with trucks, helicopters and heavy
artillery thrown in, J.P.Dutta recreates the battle cries of Kargil in
the barren landscape of Ladakh. A four-hour saga, LoC-Kargil is Bollywood's
ultimate tribute to real-life heroes and has the industry agog.
 November
17, 2003
Life on Credit
Indians have never had it so good. Low interest rates and easy access
to cheap loans afford them the chance to upgrade their homes, cars and
lifestyle, including that Caribbean cruise they always longed for. And
they are going for it.
 November
10, 2003
Missing Girl Child
Rampant misuse of modern technology, a collective failure of medical ethics
and an inability to shed notions of a male heir have pushed female foeticide
in affluent India to a shocking high.
 November
03, 2003
Getting Dawood
As the US cracks down on India's most wanted criminal, only a systematic
global campaign that puts pressure on Pakistan and the Emirates can dismantle
the D Company's evil syndicate.
 October
27, 2003
The Diwali Wish List
A booming economy, consumers on a spending binge and the feel-good factor
make this Diwali a real bonanza for everyone. Here's what is hot, from
parties to gifts, fashion to food.
 October
20, 2003
Stock Boom
It is an early Diwali on Mumbai's Dalal Street. The stock market is echoing
with the boom of spiralling valuations and a rocketing sensex. The Bombay
Stock Exchange index has appreciated by over 53 per cent since April this
year and shot past the 4500 mark almost as if to prove Prime Minister
A.B.Vajpayee's statement that the nation is on the move. A look at how
the market is growing.
 October
13, 2003
Girls for Sale
Despairing of poverty and lured by promises of marriage or jobs, thousands
of girls fall prey to traffickers every year. Girls young enough to be
playing with dolls are forced into the flesh trade or sold in the labour
market where they are exploited by unscrupulous employers. It is not a
new trend. Only now the perpetrators have become more organised. india
today blows the lid off this horrifying trade in minors that is the nation's
shame.
 October
06, 2003
Sugar Kills
Every eighth person in an Indian metro is diabetic and the disease is
rising among the youth. Even as genetics and lifestyle make Indians the
most susceptible, a range of new medicianes and treatment has come up,
making it easier to live with it.
 September
29, 2003
Brave New Direction... 54
A silent revolution is changing the face of the Hindi film industry. As
a slew of new directors and four well established film factories work
overtime to churn out scripts that defy formula and cock a snook at star
value, as the audience for such niche films grows by the day, and as 100
multiplex screens promise to roll out by the end of 2004, Bollywood puts
behind last year's Rs. 300 crore loss and moves ahead with a spring in
its step..
 September
22, 2003
The Family of Terror
The family next door that let loose death and destruction in Mumbai confesses
to its transition from a nondescript, working class household to a terror
cell. The Hanifs herald the birth of convention defying terrorists who
are motivated by revenge, not money, and can wreak as serious a damage.
 September
15, 2003
Sex and the Indian Woman
INDIA TODAY-AC NIELSEN ORG-MARG SEX SURVEY: India's first ever, comprehensive,
all-female survey that looks at a woman's basic instincts involved interviews
with unmarried, married and separated women between 19 and 50 years of
age from 10 cities. In Ahmedabad, women placed sex at 4, the highest in
the country, on the 0-5 importance scale. But for 25 per cent of women
nationwide, sexuality is still a problem area, treating it as they do
with inexplicable indifference.
 September
08, 2003
Return of Terror
It was Mumbai's black Monday as twin blasts rocked the nation's financial
capital. An exclusive story on who planned them, what their motives were
and the new face of terrorism.
 September
01, 2003
Trading in Terror
The sale of 50 shoulder-held Russian missiles was being finalised in Manhattan,
US, when the FBI burst in and apprehended three dealers. Among them was
Hemant Lakhani. The UK businessman isn't part of the elite band of arms
traders, only someone ready to cash in on the glut of illegal weaponry
on sale. The inside story of how global intelligence busted a terrorist
supply line.
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