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.

STATES: DELHI

CHAOS COUNTDOWN

JUNE 1995
Lawyer M.C. Mehta petitions to bring down pollution in Delhi as the city becomes the most polluted of all metros.

DECEMBER 1997
Government prepares White Paper on air pollution in Delhi along with an action plan.

JANUARY 1998
Bhure Lal Committee formed under Supreme Court directive to suggest ways to curb pollution in Delhi.

JULY 1998
Court sets out a "roadmap" to lower pollution in Delhi. Commercial vehicles to run on CNG or clean fuel by April 2001.

FEBRUARY 2001
Government slow in implementing court ruling. Confusion about CNG being the only clean fuel.

MARCH 2001
Delhi in chaos. CNG becomes the de facto clean fuel. Court extends deadline to September 30, 2001.

APRIL 2001
Bhure Lal Committee asked to take a second look into the definition of clean fuel.

JULY 2001
Committee recommends CNG, LPG, propane and ULSD as environmentally acceptable fuels.

AUGUST 2001
2,200 buses, 25,000 three-wheelers on CNG. Gas stations struggling to supply fuel to these vehicles.

SEPTEMBER 2001
Government to request Supreme Court to relax the September 30 deadline.

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