India Today, February 14, 2000: Contents

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Feb 14, 2000

We Are Broke
Escalating salary bills, rampant populism and unabated profligacy have pushed states into bankruptcy. Investment in public and infrastructure services comes to a halt as states borrow just to meet day to day expenses. Now essential services like health, education and transport stand imperilled.

NATION
Review Rift
The decision to set up a panel to review the Constitution invites the wrath of the Opposition which calls it an attempt to saffronise the statue.

Caught in the Web
By putting up names of suspect government officers on the CVC website, Vittal has given a sense of immediately to the issue of corruption.

OTHER STORIES
STATES Cornered at Last The police in Orissa may exult at the pre-poll capture of Dara Singh, the main accused in the Graham Staines murder case, but there's a political storm brewing over the timing. Far from Pleasure Jayalalitha's poll-eve conviction in a graft case sparks violence and casts a shadow over her party.	CINEMA Fire Over Water Deepa Mehta's new film has the Sangh Parivar doing the war dance. But gets a second life.	DIPLOMACY Great Expectations On the eve of the US President's visit, Hill watchers are counting on a new beginning to Indo-US ties.

COLUMNS

NEWSNOTES

REGULARS

Right Angle by Swapan Dasgupta

Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh

Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh

Flipside by Dilip Bobb

Birthday Surprise

In Tune With Diplomacy

Not So VVIP

Cut and Dry

From the
Editor in Chief

Editorials

Eyecatchers

Voices

Offtrack

Bodyline

Centrestage