The attack at Godhra provoked a violent retaliation. The mass frenzy left the nation facing the spectre of a communal flare-up.

Sonia is now accepted by voters, is more mature, and has added nine states to the party's kitty.
 

Flummoxed by the BSP, Mulayam tries to turn half-victory into government. The BJP faces civil war.

All eyes are on the Patiala scion, high on a poll victory but faced with the hangover of
Badal's populism.

Sinha serves an unpleasant concoction to an economy starved of reforms. Here's the ugly and the bad of Budget 2002.

A parliamentary committee does an about-turn and votes against FDI in print media, opening itself to charges of bias.

The Norway-brokered pact promises peace, but Wickremesinghe will have to walk a political tightrope.

Diaries with a difference—they come with a daily dose of reassurance in this city of West Bengal.

The arrest of Vikas Yadav in connection with the murder of a bureaucrat's son poses a challenge to prosecutors.

The move to create a designer baby to serve the medical needs of its brother kicks up a row on ethics in Britain.

Conservationists cry foul as the Government modifies a blanket ban on hunting
the species.

For the angst-ridden majority at the literary festival, Sir Vidia, never a man of seminar-friendly pieties, was the spoilsport.

Atwal's victory on the European PGA Tour marks the moment when Indian professional golf took its biggest step forward.

As the scantily dressed, pouty provocateur in Ajnabee and then as the glamorous wife in Raaz, the dusky Bengali has put the sexy back into Bollywood films.

Despite promises, BJP leaders have failed to infuse new life into governance.

West Bengal and Kerala finally have chief ministers who must succeed.

"It means: 'My head is empty'."

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature,
on what a dot on a Hindu woman's
forehead means

It seems Congress President Sonia Gandhi is eyeing the media closely.

Hamid Karzai must have missed the nostalgia trip to HP University at Shimla.

Divakaruni's sequel is an exercise at creative writing.

As the Hashmis get the official nod to create a designer baby, prospects for their ill son Zain look up.

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