Missing The Leader
The nation seems to be in the middle of a leadership crisis. An opinion poll conducted by ORG-MARG for INDIA TODAY shows that both Vajpayee and Sonia Gandhi's popularity ratings have dropped, leaving the people yearning for a strong leader like Indira Gandhi.

Leaders In Crisis
The INDIA TODAY-ORG-MARG opinion poll last January was Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's wake-up call. He chose to put the alarm clock on snooze and thereby accelerated the decline in his Government's popularity.

Is Reliance The
Red Herring
It is now UTI's investment in Reliance industries that is under scrutiny.

Air Battles
Air Chief Tipnis and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh are on a path of confrontation on strategic issues. The logjam threatens to turn serious.

COVER STORY: EXCLUSIVE OPINION POLL

Who Is The Best Chief Minister That Your State Has Ever Had?

PUNJAB

1 PARKASH S. BADAL
2 BEANT SINGH
3 PRATAP SINGH KAIRON

HARYANA

1 DEVI LAL
2 BHAJAN LAL
3 BANSI LAL

DELHI

1 M.L. KHURANA
2 SUSHMA SWARAJ
3 SHEILA DIKSHIT

UTTAR PRADESH

1 MULAYAM S. YADAV
2 MAYAWATI
3 KALYAN SINGH

BIHAR

1 LALOO P. YADAV
2 SRIKRISHNA SINHA
3 KARPOORI THAKUR

RAJASTHAN

1 B.S. SHEKHAWAT
2 MOHAN LAL SUKHADIA
3 ASHOK GEHLOT

ASSAM

1 GOPINATH BORDOLOI
2 HITESWAR SAIKIA
3 S.C. SINHA

GUJARAT

1 CHIMAN BHAI PATEL
2 KESHUBHAI PATEL
3 AMARSINH CHAUDHARY

MAHARASHTRA

1 SHARAD PAWAR
2 MANOHAR JOSHI
3 Y.B. CHAVAN

ORISSA

1 BIJU PATNAIK
2 HAREKRUSHNA MAHTAB
3 J.B. PATNAIK

WEST BENGAL

1 JYOTI BASU
2 B.C. ROY
3 B. BHATTACHARYA

KARNATAKA

1 S.M. KRISHNA
2 H.D. DEVE GOWDA
3 R.K. HEGDE

KERALA

1 K. KARUNAKARAN
2 A.K. ANTONY
3 EMS NAMBOODIRIPAD

TAMIL NADU

1 MG RAMACHANDRAN
2 K. KARUNANIDHI
3 J. JAYALALITHA

ANDRA PRADESH

1 N.T. RAMA RAO
2 CHANDRABABU NAIDU
3 M. CHANNA REDDY

MADHYA PRADESH

1 DIGVIJAY SINGH
2 ARJUN SINGH
3 SUNDER LAL PATWA

MetroScape

Looking Glass

Delhi Film Festival:
Cinemaya Festival of Asian Cinema

Delhi Bar: Tusker

Clinical tests of a controversial drug at a Kerala cancer institute exposes the vulnerability of the medical field to a larger malaise. An investigation by INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent M.G. Radhakrishnan in
Trial And Error