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The Truth About Ourselves
The human genome sequence has been completed
and shows some surprising findings. Despite having one-third less genes
than estimated, human beings are still very complex. With access to disease
genes, medicine and diagnostics will be revolutionised. However, this
will also raise ethical questions on cloning and genetic privacy.
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STATES
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Hope
In Hell
Four weeks after the earthquake, Gujarat is still
coming to terms with the devastation. True grit is emerging from the rubble
but it will be some time before lives are rebuilt. INDIA TODAY's teams
went out across these death zones, capturing stories which record this
renewal.
Simmer
Time
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BUSINESS
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Profitable Loss
36 With over 90,000 employees opting for the
VRS scheme, PSU banks are set to get over their problem of overstaffing.
But is it going to make banks more competitive in this age of automation?
Besides, it is also going to cost more than Rs 7,500 crore and will deprive
the banks of skilled workers.
Paper Money
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NEIGHBOURS
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Spreading Terror
The attacks on Delhi's Red Fort,
the Srinagar airport and the city's police control room show the Lashkar-e-Toiba
is increasingly catching the Indian security forces unawares-and emerging
as the most daring terrorist group from Pakistan.
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SPORTS
Face
Off
It's
David vs Goliath as India plays an Australian demolition squad at home.
When the Indians battle the giants, a fivefold path could bring salvation.
By
Sharda Ugra
They
say Saurav Ganguly has four possible courses of action when those fearsome
Australians come touring: play three spinners on vicious turners, play
three seamers on those fictitious "sporting" wickets, or pack
the batting on dead flat tracks.
And the fourth? Carry a white flag.
Oh sure.
Hilarious. It's easy to giggle at this distance.
 Out
in the middle, cricket will merely ask one question of each team: Have
these young Indians, constantly churned around by controversies, developed
the stomach for a real scrap? Do those seasoned Australians have the staying
power to conquer their Final Frontier?
 The
Indians are still trying to find
a combination that can help them recover from their worst year: India
played only six Tests in 2000, fewer than every other Test nation except
Bangladesh, lost its envious 13-year-old unbeaten home record, and thanks
to match-fixing, its legends and its lustre. Coming at them is a cracking
cricket team with 15 straight Test wins in its kit bags. What is an opposition
to do? In the time-tested methods of personal and spiritual quests, this
could be the Indian team's fivefold path to fighting right.
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CAPTAIN
vs CAPTAIN
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GANGULY |
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TESTS
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WON
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DRAW
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TESTS
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WON
16
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LOST
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In
the past 15 months, India have won three out of 10 Tests, scoring
over New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh
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the past 15 months Australia have won 15 straight Tests, a world record,
beating India, Pakistan and the West Indies |
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have failed to bowl teams out twice in seven of their last 10 Tests |
The
Australian batsmen have been dismissed twice in only one Test in those
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India
have lost to Australia in their last four Tests, including the 3-0
wipeout in '99
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Victory
in India will establish these Aussies as cricket's greatest ever team |
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Re-emergence of rivers,
sweet water springs' there has been much geological speculation after the
earthquake in the Rann of Kutch. INDIA TODAY'S Special Correspondent
Uday Mahurkar weighs the possibilities and concludes it's early
days yet in
Despatches.
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INTERVIEWS
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"I was
very much against the idea of India," says William Dalrymple, author,
The City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi. In conversation with INDIA TODAY's
Sonia Faleiro, he talks about his old girlfriend, Delhi and his
"enormously exciting" next book, The White Moghuls in
Interviews.
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