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Briefing
A stupendous task
D.R. Karthikeyan, the head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that ensured the conviction of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins, has reason ...
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
By sentencing to death every one of the 26 accused who were brought to trial by the Special Investigation Team for the May 1991 assassination ...
Anatomy of an investigation
Hard work -- and a bit of luck -- helped the SIT complete the challenging task. THE judgment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination ...
The accused, the charges, the verdict
THE Special Investigation Team of the Central Bureau of Investigation charge-sheeted 41 persons in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
The killing fields
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh, who resorted to desperate measures in their losing battle against pest attacks this season, ended up in debt. Some ...
Debt and devastation
WHERE agricultural extension services were inadequate, pesticide dealers stepped in to fill the vacuum. They took on the role of "pest ...
A creative collaboration
By collaborating with folk expression, Arpana Caur reforges links with the traditional base of India's artistic expression, the folk art of the ...
A progressive poet
Jnanpith award winning Urdu writer Ali Sardar Jafri has a creative style that upholds the cause of human freedom. THE conferment ...
Some bright spots
The 29th International Film Festival of India, which concluded in New Delhi recently, failed to reflect the best and most innovative work being ...
Gearing up for competition
The influx of global automobile majors is changing the contours of the Indian car market. FOR decades, the passenger car industry ...
An indigenous effort
ABOUT two years ago, Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, announced that Telco would bring out a car that was as roomy as the Ambassador ...
The Sonia effect
The effect of Sonia Gandhi's entry on the election scene was summed up in your editorial "Sonia's liturgy" (Frontline, February 6). In ...
Justice vs Jain
The M. C. Jain Commission came perilously close to wrecking the Rajiv Gandhi assassination trial. A. G. NOORANI ONE wonders how ...
Vajpayee and the Quit India movement
MANINI CHATTERJEE V.K. RAMACHANDRAN TWENTY-FOUR years after reports were first published about Atal Behari Vajpayee's signed ...
'This is my statement. I signed it.'
Atal Behari Vajpayee recounted the Bateshwar events of 1942 and his own role in them in a tape-recorded discussion with N. Ram in New Delhi on ...
The relevant provisions
AS per the judgment in the Special Judge's trial No. 3 of 1943, the Bateshwar incident was a case under Sections 147 and 436/149 of the ...
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
By sentencing to death every one of the 26 accused who were brought to trial by the Special Investigation Team for the May 1991 assassination ...
Anatomy of an investigation
Hard work -- and a bit of luck -- helped the SIT complete the challenging task. THE judgment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination ...
The accused, the charges, the verdict
THE Special Investigation Team of the Central Bureau of Investigation charge-sheeted 41 persons in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
A crack investigative team
The investigative and legal teams that cracked the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and secured the conviction of 26 of the accused were made up ...
A crack investigative team
The investigative and legal teams that cracked the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and secured the conviction of 26 of the accused were made up ...
Unravelling the plot
The SIT's charge-sheet provides a more cogent account of the assassination than the reports of the various Commissions of Inquiry that delved ...
Against the odds
The verdict in the assassination case marks the culmination of years of meticulous investigative and prosecutorial work by the SIT.
An indigenous effort
ABOUT two years ago, Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, announced that Telco would bring out a car that was as roomy as the Ambassador ...
The Sonia effect
The effect of Sonia Gandhi's entry on the election scene was summed up in your editorial "Sonia's liturgy" (Frontline, February 6). In ...
'This is my statement. I signed it.'
Atal Behari Vajpayee recounted the Bateshwar events of 1942 and his own role in them in a tape-recorded discussion with N. Ram in New Delhi on ...
The relevant provisions
AS per the judgment in the Special Judge's trial No. 3 of 1943, the Bateshwar incident was a case under Sections 147 and 436/149 of the ...