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The
Importance Of Being Brajesh
The Opposition and the Sangh Parivar launch an attack on the Prime Minister's
Office by targeting the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Brajesh
Mishra. The Vajpayee camp finds itself fighting a grim political battle
to retain credibility even as the Establishment tries to discredit the
Tehelka allegations. An analysis.
Supercrat In His
Labyrinth
There are 240 secretaries to the Government,
but N. K. Singh is always a cut above-in style, networking, and power.
The economic policy wizard gets defensive.
The Ways And Means
Of Ranjan
Ranjan Bhattacharya's role as nursemaid to
Atal Bihari Vajpayee gives the fun-loving foster son-in-law
the image of one who dabbles in government decisions.
Congress'
Coalition Flight Grounded
With sceptic constituents, Congress President
Sonia Gandhi's
plan to form an alliance just before the assembly elections in five states,
may backfire.
Desperately
Seeking loopholes
The Bharatiya Janata Party and Samata
Party find discrepancies
in the charges levelled against them by Tehelka. But it's just
details.
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Nursery
Of Hate
The week-long violence in Kanpur has cooled
down, but the spectre of the Students Islamic Movement of India still
looms large. A look at the reach of India's in-house Taliban.
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BUSINESS
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Vroom Service
The four-stroke motorcycle overtakes middle-class
India's greatest icon since the valve radio set, as sales of the doughty
old scooter stagnate in spite of a spirited fightback.
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George
Cross
The FIR against Sonia Gandhi's
private secretary is a plain corruption issue says the CBI. But, an embarrassed
Congress complains of vendetta.
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BUSINESS
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Nothing Official About It
The payment crisis is
temporarily stemmed, but clandestine financing ticks like a time bomb.
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CAPLOOKS
The Debategate
 Delhi:
When Defencegate rattled the establishment last week, the ruling BJP
was expected to field its best debaters to blunt the opposition propaganda.
Two of the best arguers in the party-I&B Minister Sushma Swaraj and
Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie-were conspicuous by their absence
on TV. One cried off saying she had to stay at home and help her daughter
prepare for Board exams while the other refused to come on TV saying he
would only talk about something he knew.
The Cheerleader's Team
Bangalore: Guess who was the speaker
to evoke some response from bored delegates at aicc Bangalore session?
Who else, but special invitee to the CWC Mani Shankar Aiyar. Supposed
to speak on foreign policy, he hit on the ingenuous idea of holding everyone's
attention by dwelling on the Tehelka tapes. And the mood to his inimitable
BJP-bashing was set by women cheerleaders who, many had reasons to believe,
he had set up. When the women began cheering him lustily, the rest of
the crowd had little choice but to fall in line.
All the State's Men
Bhopal: Has Madhya Pradesh replaced Uttar
Pradesh as the hotbed of Congress politics? At the Bangalore session of
the AICC, almost every move was orchestrated by leaders from the state.
While Arjun Singh wrote the policy paper, Motilal Vora took care of the
finances, Kamal Nath looked after the daily nitty-gritty and Deputy Leader
in the Lok Sabha Madhavrao Scindia spoke on economic policy. And Digvijay
Singh? Well, generations of Congressmen who recognise a winning horse
honed in on him as the one to be seen with.
Middle Management
Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh's entry into the Assembly
via a bye-election was considered a cakewalk. No longer. The reason: a
eunuch has jumped into the fray. Going by the fortunes of eunuchs who
have fought-and won-Singh's fears are justified.
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The 457-acre estate of the Roerichs near Bangalore
is in a pathetic condition. But does anyone care, asks INDIA TODAY's Principal
Correspondent Stephen David in Despatches.
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