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Saturday, 10 July 2004, 1700 hrs

NATION & STATES
1998 Mumbai serial blasts: 11 get
life terms for setting off bombs
A sessions court sentenced 11 men life imprisonment for setting off bombs in 1998. Among them is Javed Ghulam Hassan, an alleged agent of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence Service.

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Transaction tax: FM to meet brokers
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has called a meeting of brokers' associations, the Bond Dealers Association, primary dealers and foreign institutional investors to listen to their complaints and consider their suggestions.

FEATURED STORIES

The Boston Globe
World Court rules Israeli barrier illegal
The International Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the barrier Israel is building on the West Bank to keep out suicide bombers is illegal and amounts to "de facto annexation" of Palestinian land, writes DAN EPHRON

Tribune
Chidambaram's new avatar
Harvard-educated Palaniappan Chidambaram used to be considered a market-friendly liberaliser. As a lawyer he has held briefs for at least two controversial companies — Enron and the infamous Mardia Chemicals that has large outstanding bank dues, writes PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA

The Hindu
Guantanamo, Gaza and India
The Guantanamo Bay majority judgments effectively authorise American forces to detain anyone — innocent or otherwise — in the war zone, leaving them to challenge not the basis but broadly the conditions and length of detention, writes RAJEEV DHAVAN.

Tribune
Clinton: A life beyond charm and gossip
The massive print-run of former President Bill Clinton's autobiography and its appearance a few months before the Presidential elections is
not an arbitrary move. In fact, no publishing date is chosen at random; behind it stands a full subterranean agenda, says SHELLEY WALIA...

The Boston Globe
Elvis, Roy Brown, Big Joe Turner?
With the 50th anninversary of the recording of Elvis's first single, the debate over who started rock 'n' roll rages on.

TOP PICKS

OPINION

Water: Budget shows the way (Tribune)
Council: One house or two? (Tribune)
Scalpers' dilemma (Business Standard)
Hawking health (Business Standard)
Ministering to investment (FE)
Budget: Jai Jawan bonanza? (FE)

What is India ABSTRACTS

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This column will feature annotated abstracts of editorials and opinions published in newspapers across India

BUSINESS HEADLINES

Body blow for component biz
Corporates review prices
Airlines hit by budget baggage
FM's lip service to social sector
Forex stocks zoom past $120bn
Nasscom chief to address BSE
Mutual funds allege bias
Cut losses, power units told
Bond market shuts down
Trai for full use of DTH

CORPORATE HEADLINES

Tata Motors sales up in June
Tatas may exit from Honeywell
ITC Foods eyes big market
ACC shareholders not for ESOPs
New prices rev up Versa sales

EXCHANGE

Dollar: Rs 46.30
Pound: Rs 85.95
Euro: Rs 57.55
Yen: (100) Rs 44
*As on July 9

INSCRIPTIONS

From South India
Original texts from four states, transcribed from a definitive volume published by the Archaeological Survey of India
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SOURCES

Deccan Herald
Indian Express
Hindustan Times
The Hindu
Pioneer
Economic Times
Times of India
Statesman
Tribune
Business Standard
Business Line