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Tuesday, 03 August 2004, 1700 hrs

NATION & STATES
India, Pakistan discuss ways to strengthen cultural ties
Taking the peace process further, India and Pakistan on Tuesday began official-level talks on promotion of cultural exchanges, which is one of the eight points on the composite dialogue agenda...

ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Taxmen target exporters
With Finance Minister P Chidambaram having raised the bar on tax collection, taxmen will now breathe down the neck of exporters...

FEATURED STORIES

The Hindu
CIA mole moved out 120 files from RAW
Top officials at the Research and Analysis Wing allowed a suspected Central Intelligence Agency mole in their ranks to remove upwards of 120 files from his office just weeks before he fled the country, writes PRAVEEN SWAMI

India Together
Shifting designs
Village craftspersons and our handicrafts sector are not impervious to impact in an era of massive global change that is accelerating due to ubiquitous communication facilities. M P RANJAN suggests pro-active design and dynamic institutions for craftspersons to cope.

Indian Express
Armed against ourselves
When we reach the extreme contingency that requires deployment of armed forces, legal authority and powers like those under the Armed Forces Act are needed, says JASJIT SINGH

The Hindu
The BJP and its middle course
Caught between the call of the Sangh Parivar and the threat of the National Democratic Alliance crumbling if it were to return to a "hard Hindutva" path, the Bharatiya Janata Party seems to have decided, for the moment, to take the middle path, says NEENA VYAS

Deccan Herald
Harry Potter is a capitalist pig
With the Harry Potter series, J K Rowling has enchanted the world: the reader is drawn into a magical universe of flying cars, spells that make its victims spew slugs, trees that give blows, books that bite, elf servants and portraits that argue. It has also provoked a fierce debate about its underlying message

Indian Express
Doc’s dilemma: breaking bad news
It is always a matter of concern to medical professionals from the West participating in workshops associated with life threatening diseases in India to learn that a significant number of patients here are not told their diagnosis or prognosis by their doctors.

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