COVER STORY
The Italian Trail
With the CBI filing a charge-sheet, the Bofors case
may finally make some headway. What could be the implications for Sonia Gandhi and the
Congress if it is proved that Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi used his proximity
to Rajiv Gandhi to swing the deal?
NATION
In Sonia We Trust
The CWS's introspection session
was meant to find out the reasons for the party's poll debacle. Instead it ended up
singing paens to the supreme leader.
Unholy Protest
The refusal of the Sangh hardliners to relent on their
demand for a papal apology pushes the Government into an embarrassing corner.
STATES
Gamango Shake
Administration is in limbo as bureaucrats and police
officers are shuffled at will at the behest of a small coterie that seems to
remote-control the chief minister.
Jungle
Justice
A spate of clandestine killings in Assam strengthens public fears that the state
has adopted a new strategy to terrorise suspected ULFA sympathisers. |