"Don't pay up, dial 100"
Cancelled wedding receptions and car bookings! A fallout of increasing threat of extortion or is it just the recession? For the first time, since he took charge in August 1997, Mumbai police commissioner R H Mendonca comes forward with answers.

Clicking the good, bad and ugly
"It would be interesting to know what makes the youth of this country tick," observes photojournalist Jay Ullal, who's in the city of his origin on his annual holiday from Germany, where he lives. "What kind of a story would that be?" he asks.

Pets wear festive colour for X'mas
If New Yorkers are struck with the desire to dye the dog red and green for Christmas, they can head for Urban Pets where owner Eric Gonzalez will do the decidedly unusual honors.

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  Two-third are amateurs
  Mind your pets
  Reactions
  MDU EC meeting may turn stormy
  Making reason the first resort
  Noise pollution in Chandigarh
  Schools sans schooling
  Should admissions be based on entrance tests?
  Neat Job Of Untidiness
  Voices
  Experience the inner joy of living
  Rescue, a mission
  A fine display
  Society scenes
  A place called hope
  Is "e" the letter?
  Intrigue on a champagne evening
  Citygritty -- Pune
  Pune Crowns
  City court dismisses NGOs' plea in AIR obscenity case