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Behind
Pakistan's Defeat
A
secret inquiry into Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war held army atrocities,
widespread corruption, cowardice and the moral laxity of its generals
as prime reasons for the defeat in East Pakistan. The explosive Hamoodur
report has never been disclosed-until now.
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The
Nation
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Peace
Takes a Knock
The
Hizb has resumed battle, the killings continue and the Hurriyat is in
a quandary but the Government feels these are temporary roadblocks to
peace.
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AS
Good As It Gets?
The
economy has been chugging along well this year. Will it pick up speed
or lose steam in the coming months? Right now there is more optimism than
unease about the future.
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Eyecatchers
Shock
Stock
 Some
people may go away for a while. But they won't disappear. After her controversial
teleshow Nikki Tonight was taken off the air, Nikki Bedi
(actor Kabir Bedi's wife) was keeping a low profile. She's back now, launching
an entertainment portal in Mumbai with niece Seher Bedi and other family
members. And in typical Bedi style, the invitation came with a G-string
that had "come on in" stamped all over. Says Seher lightly:
"The main issue is we want people to come in and have fun."
Really? No strings attached?
My Word
Don't
take her word lightly. Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein may be
busy with her re-election campaign, but she hasn't forgotten a promise
she made to Vijai Sree Rajan, 24.  Feinstein
has introduced legislation to grant US citizenship to the LA-based girl
who suffers from cerebral palsy, seizures and muscular dystrophy.
Her family are citizens but Rajan, Feinstein fumes, "has been left
out of (their) American dream ... because her physical disabilities prevent
her from taking the oath of allegiance". Citizen Feinstein's not
taking that lightly. You can take her word for it.
Part Time Job
"After
college, I may do a masters in economics, or maybe law, or maybe I'll
take the Civil Services exams." But until then, 19-year-old Indrani
Das Gupta just prays for a couple of extra hours in a day as she juggles
her studies -- final year Economics (Honours) at Delhi's Miranda House
-- and her fledgling yet flourishing modelling career. Das Gupta did her
first shoot in January 2000. And in just seven months, she's notched up
campaigns for Airtel, Wills Sport, Radisson, Panasonic, Meena Bazaar and
more; starred in pop group Euphoria's Phir Dhoom video; and done
ramp shows for designers Ashish Soni, Rajesh Pratap Singh and Rina Dhaka
among others. Imagine what she'd do if she had more time!
Working
Girl
She
tried to change her serious image post-Maachis-and-National Award. Didn't
work. So Tabu's doing a mix 'n' match of roles, glam and not, which
require a cerebral input. There's Ghaath with Manoj Bajpai in which
she's a lawyer and Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar also with him. For the part
of a bar girl in Chandani Bar, Tabu haunted the sleaziest joints
in Mumbai. "I really researched the role. I wanted to be as natural
as possible," she says. No wonder she matched her dance partners
step for slinky step when they shot a number at the Night Lovers Bar in
suburban Mumbai with real cabaret dancers, not extras. Now Karisma, Ash
and gang, try beating that.
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 Don't
ask for more funds, demand the right to collect, INDIA TODAY Associate
Editor V. Shankar Aiyar writes to Chandrababu Naidu in Au
ContrAiyar.
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CHAT |
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the transcript
of
Wednesday's live chat with Vasudevan Bhaskaran, Chief Coach of
Indian hockey.
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STREET |
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The
Mercenary Journalist
Pressures of meeting deadlines have always been
nerve-wracking in Kashmir. But never before has there been such desperation
to be the first to break news, writes India Today Special Correspondent
Ramesh Vinayak who has covered militancy for over a decade.
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TALKING
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"May be Veerappan should be given a chance
to reform," Karnataka
CM S.M. Krishna tells INDIA TODAY Principal Correspondent Stephen
David as one of the options being considered to secure the release of
superstar Rajkumar.
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DESPATCHES |
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In
the eerie world of superstition that still exists in Andhra Pradesh's
Telengana region, four women and a man are brutally burned to death allegedly
for practising black magic. INDIA TODAY Associate Editor Amarnath K.
Menon says in Despatches
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Full coverages
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»1971:
The Untold Story
This is a story not
told in Pakistan. A secret inquiry into the splintering of Pakistan
in 1971 held army atrocities, widespread corruption, cowardice,
even loose morals, among its generals in East Pakistan as prime
reasons in losing the war. The explosive Hamoodur Rahman report,
obtained exclusively by NEWS TODAY's Samar Halarnkar, has never
seen the light of day—until now.
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Veerappan
Strikes Again
Kannada filmdom's top
star Dr Rajkumar at his rural farmhouse was rudely interrupted when
one of India's deadliest killers, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan,50,
burst in a half hour before midnight. .
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The
Tiger Catastrophe
India's
national animal is in crisis in the hands of its keepers. The death
toll at Nandan Kanan Zoo in Orissa is now 12, nine of these rare
white tigers.
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The
SriLankan crisis
Exclusive interviews, columns and infographics that track the battle
for Jaffna.
» The
Kashmir jigsaw
With both the governments and militants taking strong
positions, talks on autonomy could be heading for
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'secret'
new report obtained by INDIA TODAY lays bare the ISI's infiltration
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