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February 26, 2001 Issue


India Today, February 26

HUMAN GENOME
   

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.

 
STATES
   

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

 

 
BUSINESS
   

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

 

 
NEIGHBOURS
   

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.

 

 
SPORTS
 

Face Off
It's David Vs Goliath as India play an Australian demolition squad at home. What makes the Aussies tick and how can India take them on?

Cricketwatch:
Ashley Mallett

 

 
CARE TODAY
  Mending Lives
The medical team sponsored by care today injected hope in quake- ravaged Gujarat-performing surgeries and tackling ailments.

 
OTHER STORIES
    Fifth Column:
Tavleen Singh
 
    Kautilya:
Jairam Ramesh
 
     
    Books  
    Music  
    The Arts: Jatin Das  
    Caplooks  
    Voices  
    Tremors  
    Confessional  
    Eyecatchers  
 



 
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SPORTS

HEAD TO HEAD
HOW INDIA'S STARS FARE VS AUSTRALIA
BATSMAN
Tests
Run
100s
Avg vs Aust
Career Avg
DRAVID
7
356
--
29.67
53.58
GANGULY
7
395
--
35.91
46.74
TENDULKAR
12
1102
5
55.10
57.29
BOWLERS
Tests
Wkts
5W/Inn
Avg vs India
Career Avg
AGARKAR
3
11
--
31.91
37.62
SRINATH
10
28
--
42.61
29.85
HOW AUSTRALIA'S FINEST FARE VS INDIA
BATSMAN
Tests
Run
100s
Avg vs Aust
Career Avg
PONTING
7
507
2
50.70
46.72
M. WAUGH
11
549
1
34.31
42.01
S. WAUGH
11
580
1
38.67
51.01
BOWLERS
Tests
Wkts
5W/Inn
Avg vs India
Career Avg
McGRATH
4
20
2
16.70
22.07
WARNE
8
19
--
58.5
25.96
February 27-March 3 1st Test, Mumbai March 11-15
2nd Test, Kolkata
March 18-22
3rd Test, Chennai

 

 

 

 
 
Care Today
     METRO TODAY
 
   

MetroScape
Delhi On My Mind...
I'm very flattered to have this act of 'piracy' take place," laughs William Dalrymple, as extracts from his engrossing travelogue City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi were interpreted by photographer Agnes Montanari and art historian Nathalie Trouveroy in an exhibition.
more...

Looking Glass

Delhi: Restaurant

Delhi: Exhibition

Mumbai: Exhibition

 

 
    Web Exclusives
DESPATCHES
  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.

 

 
 
INTERVIEWS
 

"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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