Pope arrives amid tight security
Pope John Paul II, supreme spiritual leader of the Catholics, arrived in New Delhi on Friday for a two-day state visit.

Talcum improves the way sweets look
A bath always seems incomplete without a sprinkling of talcum powder. But imagine the same powder in the sweets that you love to devour during festivals.

Hindujas host millennium Diwali bash
Bofors was a million miles away as Brothers Hinduja, who have reinvented themselves as the flag bearers of global ``tolerance'' and ``multiculturalism'', gathered in London on Wednesday to host a ``millennium'' Diwali bash at which British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife were the star attractions.

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  PM grants Rs 100 cr more for cyclone-hit
  Indian PM? Pak Gen? Bush Jr doesn't know
  Forest guards lay down arms in UP
  Gen Musharraf rules out early return to democracy
  Now offering, easy internet access
  Delhiites get cyberworld at their threshold
  Oriya workers' exodus hits Surat textile units
  Rare Tagore, Paluskar tapes unearthed at Baroda varsity
  Cop, 2 others held for attacking neighbours
  View from air -- Sheets of water, devastation
  In Kendrapara, the highway is home
  Nandankanan park left in state of ruin
  Jail inmates make most of cyclone, scale wall to freedom
  Survivors live with rotting carcasses
  India, Russia sign protocol on military cooperation
  SC notice to Centre on scope of TRAI power
  CBI has no papers to show Rajiv got money -- Joginder
  Butterflies rain down on Mysore
  Monarchists set to win Australia referendum
  Stranded Chechens battle death, disease at border
  China vows to eliminate Falun Gong
  US Congress in grip of gun lobby, say Republicans
  Freedom struggle finds echo in Thane
  Two more cops die of heart attack, toll 8 in two months
  Evening law colleges to be shut from June 2000
  Businessman held for hawala transactions
  Mumbai notes
  Mahatma has global appeal -- Joseph Rotblat
  Red-light area gets 60,000 condoms; AIDS scare subsides
  Diwali `bonus' for unpaid Raghuvanshi Mill workers
  BEST may cancel 210 routes
  No happy Diwali for asthma patients
  For resident docs, it's the same story every year
  Dereservation sought in garments, knitting sectors sought
  Christians invite Pope to Punjab
  Efforts to popularise IT scheme made popular
  Crime Beat -- Chandigarh
  UT constitutes Food Advisory Authority
  New SSP to take charge on Nov 9
  PU youth fest concludes
  HC notice to Haryana secy on HUDA's petition against him
  Attached heads of Punjab Irrigation Dept released
  Fireworks light up sky at PCC Diwali mela
  Finance schemes offered at car mela
  Delay in release of revised pay irks AIFUTA
  Five injured in mishaps
  Aureol brings unique concepts to city
  Probe Ranjit Sagar Dam expenditure
  Daily Despatches -- Chandigarh
  Quiz on traffic rules held
  Empty chairs for fashion show
  Cassettes, cash, charger -- Yerawada jail has it all...
  Fringe villages may be left thirsting
  Good morning, it's time for showers!
  Job schemes fail to strike a chord
  Cardinal greets all on Diwali
  In Brief -- Pune
  Two new phone exchanges commissioned
  Mishap claims three of a family
  Suicide threat sends cops on wild goose chase
  PCNTDA asked to bear capital cost of water supply works
  PMC sanctions Rs 46 lakh for waste incinerators
  Pune Beat
  Dental problems common among kids
  Separate corporation to look into sugar factory problems