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• Special Highlight 
  Tanjavur Temple Inscriptions

• Religious Tourism Picks Up
  With 2.5 million temples dating back several hundred years (and some several thousands), religious tourism in India is turning out to be a major revenue earner although most of the revenues are not really accounted.<More>

• Govt may Scrap AWB Deal
  Confronted with sub-quality wheat arriving from the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) and its refusal to supply human-consumable quality wheat at the agreed price, the Government may cancel the deal and negotiate a new one in more transparent terms. <More>

Democracy, Politics and Judiciary

• Speaker Blasts Election Commission
  Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee lambasted the Election Commission (EC) over s charge that he occupied an “Office of Profit” and accused it of “character assassination” and “trial by insinuation” without providing any proof.<More>

• Speaker Trouble
  The Budget-session of the Parliament ended in a controversy about an admonishment motion on a former Lok Sabha Secretary-General for his disparaging remarks on the Speaker and the Opposition opposed the propriety of the motion and the motives for it.<More>