India Today Group Online
 


March 19, 2001 Issue


India Today, March 19, 2001

THE TALIBAN
   

Vandals Of History Afghanistan's Taliban regime remains undeterred from its hard-line agenda of destroying historically valuable Buddhist idols. A look at the present regime and its slide to orthodox fundamentalism at a time when a drought has ravaged its economy and people.

 

 
STATES
   

Taking On the Family
Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Yadav is once again facing a tough fight for survival--this time prompted by a near revolt in the RJD fuelled by rumours of a dynastic takeover. Ranjan Yadav has emerged as a potential rival to Rabri Devi, enjoying the support of both the party rebels and the NDA allies.

 

 
STATES
   

Chennai Confusion
The upshot of the great Tamil circus: Jayalalitha needs Moopanar, but not the Congress.

 

 
ECONOMY
   

Creepy Acquisition
With Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha determined to bring corporate payslips comprehensively into the taxman's dragnet, the salaried class is having a few palpitations. For them, it means that a long era of tax-free emoluments is coming to an end.

 
SPORTS
 

"Indians lack unity"
Two of cricket's finest brains met for a rare conversation:Bishen Singh Bedi takes on the role of interviewer for Aaj Tak, seeking to get into the mind of Australian captain Stephen Waugh.

 

 
BUSINESS
 

Revenge Of the Bears The sudden fall in share-prices points to yet another rigging controversy, and raises questions about the efficacy and credibility of SEBI as a regulator.

 

 
OTHER STORIES
     
 



 
  Home  
 

CARE TODAY FUNDS

Progress Report

We wish to thank our readers for their generosity and also inform them that the Lest We Forget fund and the Rebuilding Gujarat Fund are now closed. Please do not send any more cheques/drafts for these funds.

Contributions received for the LEST WE FORGET FUND

M M Forgings Ltd

Rs 1,00,000
Expenditure statement for LEST WE FORGET Programme

Total funds collected

Rs 1,14,05,389
Funds utilised (up to February, 2001) Rs 77,49,729
Contributions of Rs 5,000 or more for the
Rebuilding Gujarat Fund
received till February 14, 2001:
Ram Parkash
Rs 51,000
T.L. Palani Kumar
Rs 10,000
LNM Exports (P) Ltd
Rs 10,000
Employees, Saint Gobain Crystals & Detectors India (P) Ltd, Bangalore
Rs 7,929
M. Sampoornam
Rs 5,001
Tanya Enterprises
Rs 11,000
Jitender M. Sidh
Rs 5,000
V.M. Gupta
Rs 5,000
Bondel Agrahari Samaj
Rs 12,511
Jitendra Doshi
Rs 5,000
V.S. Bhatnagar
Rs 5,000
Wg Cdr T.V.E. Narayana
Rs 6,000
Rajan Bhasin AAREM Industries
Rs 25,000
Dr Rashmi Khurana
Rs 5,000
Villagers of Khargapur, Madhya Pradesh
Rs 8,150
Ashish Anand
Rs 5,000
Srinivasu Jayan
Rs 8,000
Surya Kant Misra
Rs 5,000
A. Sachdev & Co Rs 11,000
S. Krishnan Rs 5,000
Prof R.S. Ramakrishna and M.S. Manika
Rs 30,000
Abhinav, Sonal, Reena and Ramesh
Rs 5,001
M.V. Rangan
Rs 5,000
Infinitydesign
Rs 10,000
Sydney Mark Rath
Rs 10,000
Dr A.K. Sharma
Rs 5,000
Dr Rekha, Vishal Agarwal
Rs 5,100
Vimal Pathak
Rs 5,000
Leather Craft Export Division
Rs 11,000
Karat V. Parameshwar
Rs 25,000
All Villagers, Jungle Site, Chhattisgarh
Rs 5,000
S. Vijaychandran and family
Rs 5,767
Surbhi and Sidhant Suri
Rs 46,186
Gururaj Shetti
Rs 9,274
Gaurav Seth Rs 23,070
Subramanian Krishnan
Rs 6,921
Upasana and Vatsala Dixit
Rs 5,000
Mohini Bhullar
Rs 10,000
The Mercator staff at Mercator House
and The Emirates Cargo staff
Rs 1,32,158
H.R. Bhatia
Rs 10,001
M. Girija
Rs 10,000
Delhi Army Stores &
Manufacturers Associations
Rs 1,00,000
ICRA Limited
Rs 1,33,276
Employees of ICRA Limited
Rs 1,32,276
Manish Aggarwal, ICRA Limited
Rs 5,000
Employees, Tata Consultancy
Services, Lucknow
Rs 27,400
Gita Devi of Kapurthala Rs 15,000


 

 
 
 
Care Today
     METRO TODAY
 
   

MetroScape
Triple Act
What I would love to do more than anything else in the world is to write another play," says Gurcharan Das. "But I don't know if I have the courage." He should have dollops of it, going by the audience reaction to his 9 Jakhoo Hill--performed to mark the release of Three English Plays by Das --at Delhi's India Habitat Centre
last week.

more...


Looking Glass

Delhi and Mumbai: Adventure One Sport

Mumbai: Smooth Bar

 
    Web Exclusives
DESPATCHES
 

Polo, like many other events, is bringing about the resurgence of the almost forgotten royals. A chance, writes INDIA TODAY's Principal Correspondent Anshul Avijit, to say Maharaja again with an unctuous post-modernist gusto in Despatches.

 

 
 
INTERVIEWS
 

"The only obvious competition is in bhangra," say the Pakistani duo of the music group, Strings, in conversation with INDIA TODAY's Sonia Faleiro in
Interviews.

 

 

 

PREVIOUS ISSUE


India Today, March 12, 2001

Click here to view
the previous issue

 

 

 


India Today | The Newspaper Today | Aaj Tak | Business Today | Computers Today | India Today Plus | Teens Today | Music Today
Art Today | Jokes & Toons | India Today Book Club | TNT Astro | TNT Movies
Care Today | E-Greetings| TNT Forums | Archives | Syndications

Write to us | About Us | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer

© Living Media India Ltd