Victims Of The Crash Small investors like Girish Patel of Ahmedabad have lost much of their life's savings in the stock market crash. A profile of some middle-class investors who burnt their fingers.

Villains Of The Crash SEBI Chairman D.R. Mehta along with bankers, and brokers must share the responsibility for allowing yet another scam by their acts of commission, and omission.

What's Next For The Economy?
For the third time since 1997, a combination of sliding stock markets, political instability, and global slowdown threatens to turn the hopes of an economic take-off into despair.

Numbed By Disgrace
The BJP, still in shock, begins life after the Tehelka expose with a new president and a combination of hope and bluster. A swot analysis.

"I'd choose Musharraf"
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto talks about her relations with her country's politicians, Indo-Pak relations and Kashmir in an interview to Aaj Tak.

Official Obstacle
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi eggs on workers to go on a strike that is adversely affecting production, and profits.

Fire Fighting
As the Tehelka controversy slows the defence deals, the Government takes steps to revamp the set-up and streamline the weapon procurement system.

NEWSNOTES

Voices

"The BJP is not waiting for Mamata Banerjee. But we have not closed our doors. It is for her to decide how determined she is to root out the Left in West Bengal."
Narendra Modi, general secretary, BJP

"Jaya Jaitly should have resigned on day one. She thought that since she was not guilty she did not need to resign. After all she never had political grooming in her early years."
Nitish Kumar, Union minister and Samata Party leader

"Dirt should not be pushed under the carpet. It should be thrown out."
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, former Rajasthan chief minister, asking his party, the BJP, to show Bangaru Laxman the door

"As far as these awards are concerned, industrialists and businessmen have not been given their due in spite of the wealth they have produced for the country."
Rahul Bajaj, chairman and managing director of Bajaj Auto and recipient of the Padma Bhushan this year

VIS-A-VIS

"The Congress has declared war and there is no going back. We have accepted the invitation."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister

"Instead of declaring war on the Congress, Vajpayee should have declared war against corruption."
Anand Sharma, AICC Spokesman

MetroScape

Collaborative Class
Italian designer and architect Tarshito Nicola Stripoli has been busy rearranging world geography.
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Looking Glass

Delhi Salon: Jacques Dessange

Mumbai Theatre:
IMAX dome

Mumbai Restaurant:
Watering Hole

The ambitious Anandgarh township proposal stirs another round of controversy as a high court order foils the Punjab Government's plans of acquiring land for the project. INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent Ramesh Vinayak reports in
Despatches.