Rajiv, Quattrocchi in Bofors chargesheet
Nine years after it took over the Bofors kickbacks case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to file its first chargesheet naming former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi among the accused.

Truckers' stir begins, Govt ready for talks
Even as the nationwide truckers' strike started early on Thursday, none of the States invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA).

Mid-day meal scheme has hiccups
The much-hyped mid-day meal (MDM) scheme for primary school children has got entangled in an administrative and procedural mess, and as a result about 23% of the 1.25 lakh children in the city have to remain without the promised afternoon meals.

  Quicktakes
  Cabinet approves new telecom package
  US to talk terrorism with Pak
  Vajpayee Govt puts `foreigner' row on backburner
  Babus oppose White Paper diktat
  Key Customs, Excise posts to be filled soon
  Dramatist Mohan Wagh bags Bhave award
  Rise in ragging -- Gujarat Govt appoints panel
  TN to keep pressure on Cauvery interim order -- CM
  De-escalation at Pak border yet to begin
  Statescape
  `Sexy sexy' sings Surpanakha to keep the crowds coming
  Elders turn the heat on school's sex education plan
  Indians may be pre-disposed to cardiac diseases -- Expert
  US overseas campus in Chandigarh soon
  Courts must not `overstep' their limit-- CJ
  Irregularities in Bihar road, bridge work -- CAG report
  Dole loses `battle of bucks'
  Japanese elected UNESCO's head amid new charges
  Builders turn to barter, crisis deepens
  Motorists may have to switch off cellphones
  Sugar prices may shoot up due to transport strike
  Dr V V Rao, fire brigade chief, dead
  Mumbai Beat
  Dreams get bigger in Hindi theatre
  Pulse polio to cover entire target population
  New govt may review MHADA policies
  Beautifying Mumbai, the organised way
  UMC officials face action
  Mumbai Notes
  Dentist sentenced for murder
  Vandana Gupta gets Vallluri award
  Mixed response to truck stir
  Enough petrol in State -- Govt
  Sudden spurt in crime shakes city
  Mounds veil tribal roots
  Polluting firm forced to close
  Industry may be hit hard by agitation
  Crime Watch -- Vadodara
  Open-air theatre to get facelift
  Forest dept seeks PASA arrest
  VMC blacklists contractor
  Vadodara Beat
  City garba-singers enthrall audience
  Science students boycott classes
  Two more people murdered in separate cases in Vadodara
  NGOs hold meet with DoT officials
  Vehicle-lifting racket unearthed
  Diamond industry raps lack of infrastructure
  Principals boycott extra responsiblity
  Crime Watch -- Surat
  SAARC trade fair on
  One held for giving refuge to gangster Amdawadi
  Surat Brief
  Three given life sentence
  First HUDA Tatkal Dwar to be held on Oct 30
  Tributes paid to martyr cops jawans
  Panchkula residents suffer day-long power cuts
  Artists decry female foeticide
  All set for Pulse Polio
  Bail for chain snatchers
  Pune Beat
  Vegetable and sugar prices move upwards
  Joyride proves fatal for 3 youths, injures 3 others
  PMC favours killing of menacing stray dogs
  To stand or not to stand...
  And Bingo! Internet open to students
  Commemoration Day observed
  Manch mobilises public opinion to protest against Pope's visit
  Jehangir Hospital begins expansion, modernisation project
  Medical transcriptionist course from November