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.

NEWSNOTES

TREMORS Bets On Who Will Present Budget 2002
	Yashwant Sinha: Government doesn't want to rock the boat but politics often demands a fall guy. Has made corporate enemies and his I-didn't-know claim hasn't gone down well.
	Arun Jaitley: His name is being whispered in industry circles as Sinha's successor. Is inexperienced and doesn't want the job but someone is keen to remove him as law minister.
	Murli Manohar Joshi: The man who always wanted to be finance minister is hamstrung by a hardline image that goes against all the globalising impulses of the Government.
	C. Rangarajan: A wild card said to be the choice of the TDP. Could find favour if the Government feels that only a technocrat can restore economic confidence.

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