The Indian Express -- General

Tuesday, May 13 1997

Swiss embarrassed by charges of complicity in war

Never in its recent history has Switzerland's wartime comportment been the subject of such debate and controversy culminating in a damaging 200-page report released this week by the US government. The US study on the amount and fate of Nazi German gold stolen from occupied countries and Holocaust victims is critical of Switzerland's "business as usual" post-War attitude in resisting the return of looted Nazi gold as "inexplicable".

The rebellion of a renunciate

In 1992, the Brahmin orthodoxy in Karnataka was torn apart by a theological debate on the ethics of initiating adolescent boys into sanyasa (monkhood).

Criminals going great guns in Shivshahi

As the Sena-BJP Government goes on claiming that the law and order situation was well under control in Shivshahi, according to an official report, "there is an alarming increase in all heads of crime in the month of March vis-a-vis the previous month".

Blowout leads ONGC team to shallow gas pocket

FBI to probe alleged killing of foreign hostages

Iran earthquake toll reaches 4,000

Halving disparity with West will take 154 years

Maoists kill 15 in Bihar

Army officials, jawans indicted in job racket

UAE allows expat workers to change jobs with greater ease

Indian education in Nagasaki, on the Net

Rebel forces warn of bloodbath if Monsengwo heads Zaire

Holidays for blast accused too

Gujral sees SAARC as economic bloc

Footpath chowkies face flak