We are not afraid of peer review: Satinder Kumar Sikka

Finally, all your favourite toons in Hindi: Scooby and Scrappy Doo, Swat Kats, Addams Family and Jonny Quest.

Lured by foreign dreams families in rural Punjab are beginning to pay a terrible price as hundreds of women are deserted by their NRI husbands.

New releases: The Nazranies, Eat and Stay Slim with Soups and Salads, E-Mail in a Nutshell.

Sex, bureaucracy and other naughty ideas.

Indian TV's chatterboxes, Shekhar Suman, Sajid Khan, Roshan Abbas and Naved Jaaferi recently returned from Los Angeles after a brief encounter with the king of stand-up comedy, Jay Leno.

Watch highlights of film, feature & talk show.

Rushdie's cry from the heart reaches the London stage.

Officially Iran seems to retreat on the fatwa. But maverick Islamic groups may still target Rushdie.

Going Solo - three one-act plays - earned rave reviews in Mumbai's theatre world and is now all set to storm the capital.

Confluence '98 shows how works of art can be created out of everyday articles.

An invisible little creature skulking in our homes is a leading cause of allergy.

Religious fervour takes the backseat in Calcutta this year as organisers light up pandals with innovative icons of Goddess Durga.

With the Congress giving him the cold shoulder and the Left playing hard to get, Laloo's post-Bihar attempt to forge a third front comes a cropper.

Away from pressing domestic problems Vajpayee rediscovers himself, his ebullience and his wit, as Editor Prabhu Chawla found out.

The 12-year-old defence scam seems headed for a quiet burial under an anti-Congress government.

Arguing the West can do business with the Taliban.

Badal's scheme to track down corrupt officers by offering cash rewards to informers flounders.

While the BJP tries to cover its misrule, the Congress lacks a clear-cut agenda for the assembly elections.

The LoC scam resurfaces to haunt the Assam CM yet again.

Blatant opportunism marks the political parties' bid to grab power in the panchayats.

While Christians seek protection, political parties have lost no time in politicising the attacks on the community.

The legal fraternity condemns delay in cases against VIPs.

You think Fantasy makes for racy reading? For Rs 95-Rs 151, try the Ken Starr report.

After splitting with Channel V, acting up a mess in a teleserial, and going unnoticed in hubby's music video, Ruby Bhatia's back to what she's best at: veejaying.

The gorgeous Dimple Kapadia and her daughters are making candles these days.

Till recently, SGPC chief G.S. Tohra's home in his native village didn't have a telephone connection. But things are changing slowly.

It was not the kind of family reunion that his relatives had anticipated. Atal Bihari Vajpayee's first visit to hometown Gwalior after becoming prime minister took place under the shadow of the Special Protection Group.

The recent floods in Surat, which saw lakhs of people marooned for over two days, led to unprecedented public ire against local politicians, particularly those of the BJP.

Congress stalwart Sharad Pawar was rallying his men last week to retain the presidentship of Mumbai's Garware Club. Prestigious it may be - membership to this south Mumbai club carries a price tag of Rs 2.25 lakh - but it's still a city club.

The release of Mulayam Singh Yadav's biography in the capital saw politicians like Laloo Prasad Yadav, P.V. Narasimha Rao, H.S. Surjeet and Manmohan Singh rub shoulders with film star Amitabh Bachchan.

The Gujarat Government wanted to pass a resolution in the Assembly against the proposed visit of the World Commission on Dams. Activists argued this was because the administration had something to hide.

There's plenty of reasons to celebrate this season, apart from the traditional ones. Despite the trials and tribulations of the recent past, there's plenty of hope for the future, and that's enough reason to bring out the fireworks and light the fuse. All this would not be possible without the active intervention of certain individuals who deserve to be felicitated.

The Centre has no business playing head prefect.

Wanted: New interlocutors in Washington and Delhi.

The pains are east of Kanpur, the gains elsewhere.

The echo of India's nuclear test refuses to die. Whether we like it or not, the bomb continues to dominate our environment, to influence our thinking. A few years ago the acronym CTBT would have been meaningless to us.

The Indian legal system could consider migrating from Jurassic Park.