Where Have All The Jobs Gone
Old jobs are being slashed and new ones have slowed down to a trickle. With corporate India shedding staff faster than ever before, the worst sufferers are freshers and middle-level managers.

Preparing For Musharraf
Administrators, securitymen and hospitality merchants gear up to ensure that it's not just the Taj that will impress the visiting
Pakistani President.

Adviser Raj
Bureaucrats don't retire. Their terms are extended or they are reappointed to counsel political mentors.

Out Of Luck Now
It will take more than voter-friendly symbolism to ensure victory in UP.

Hard Cover Up
The Government is perturbed by a cop's unreleased book on Rajkumar's kidnapping.

Connecting Bharat
It's a project to bridge the digital divide. But sources of funding are not known.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: MEDIA LAB

Project MLA

DISASTER CONTROL Wireless technology could help locate people, detect contaminated water, provide quick, cheap housing.

LEARNING Provide Internet exposure to children who could take the lead in introducing practical use of technologies.

DIGITAL HEALTH Cheap tele-medicine appliances could provide bi-directional information flow to health centres and hospitals.

ENTREPRENEURS Digital financial products and services could support economic sectors in rural areas with cheaper transactions.

SPEAK EASY Innovative technologies could support content and applications that speak to people in local languages.

COMMUNICATION A vast number of villages that don't even have telephones could be easily connected to the Internet.

COST NO BAR Ultra low-cost technologies promise to bring down computing costs, making computers very affordable.

REACH With 70 per cent of India viewing TV, popular programmes could be used to reach out to and educate communities.

MetroScape

Mumbai Tribal Art: Murias

Pune Multiplex:
City Pride

Long considered politically naive, the Gujarat chief minister is a wiser man now. But the shrewdness would prove worthier if employed in matters of state, writes INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent Uday Mahurkar in
Misplaced Guile