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September 27, 2006
25 years on, the village that converted to Islam
A Ganesh Nadar visits Meenakshipuram to find out how life has changed -- for those who converted, and for the others.

September 26, 2006
Padmini, The Eternal Star
She was partying late into the night with other film stars just before she passed away. She would not have liked to lose her glamour even in death.

September 25, 2006
Flying abroad? Keep polio certificate ready
The order if implemented would mean that Indians travelling to other parts of the world with children below five years of age will have to get certificates from a doctor showing the status of polio vaccine.

Pranab Mukherjee charms Indian Americans
The defence minister received a standing ovation quite a few times during his address.

September 22, 2006
World leaders join Clinton's initiative
The issue that got the most attention turned out to be not health but religious and ethnic conflicts around the world.

September 21, 2006
Farewell, Crocodile Hunter
Watched by close to 300 million people around the world, the service was a remarkable display of love for a man who won hearts from Toowoomba to Tuticorin.

September 20, 2006
UP district exports polio virus: WHO
Polio originating from Moradabad has been detected in previously polio-free countries, including Namibia, Congo, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Bangkok Despatch: Why the Army took over
General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who is also the leader of the Administrative Reform Council, said a civilian government would be appointed to run the country within two weeks.

September 19, 2006
Impressions: A brief visit to heaven
If you are male and if you are one of those with a pair of glad eyes, Brazil is the place for you.

The Man Who Led the WTC Probe
Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator into the WTC tragedy, sifted through the wreckage to try and make sense of it all.

September 15, 2006
Ashok Singhal, 80
'Hindus form 90 per cent of India's population but this is not a Hindu nation. Today's political leaders have no courage. They have no courage to even ask people to sing the country's national song, Vande Mataram," lamented the VHP veteran.

Is Castro fit to attend NAM?
The odds are that the Cuban leader, who has a great sense of drama, will turn the event into one last hurrah on the world stage. An international farewell with over a hundred world leaders in attendance.

September 14, 2006
He died. She killed herself
He died when his plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center that fateful morning; she decided that a world without him was not worth living in.

On WTC debris, these Indian buildings stand
How steel scrap from the collapsed WTC towers found its way into several buildings across India.

September 13, 2006
9/11: The falsely accused
Mohammad Azmath and Syed Gul Mohammad Shah chased the American dream -- and stumbled into a post-9/11 nightmare of false charges and underserved stigma.

September 12, 2006
Why Dr Singh is in Brazil
Brazil is the chair of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and it also has sizeable uranium deposits.

9/11: The father who lost his son
Memorials to Hemant Puttur, a software employee who was on the 97th floor of the North Tower on September 11, dot a nondescript south Indian town. But his father doesn't want to reopen scars.

September 11, 2006
The child who lost his mother
Amish Sattaluri will play Scrabble or show off his golf swing but reveal not his feelings for the mother he so tragically lost.

September 08, 2006
When India, Pak nearly went to war
A new American report has revealed what really happened after the attack on India's Parliament.

September 05, 2006
'Religion and nationalism are made for each other'
BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on the Vande Mataram controversy.

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