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Tuesday, 13 July 2004, 1700 hrs

NATION & STATES
Israel wall ruling precedent: Pakistan wants India to stop fencing border
Pakistan on Monday declared that the ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the Israeli wall on Palestinian territory was a moral victory for the international community, and urged India to dismantle its fencing along the Line of Control in Kashmir...

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Stocks: day traders go slow to protest transaction tax
Day-traders refrained from work and protested against the 0.15 per cent tax on all securities transactions proposed by finance minister P Chidambaram...

FEATURED STORIES

Asia Times
Time's up in the blame game
The second and most important part of the US Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the culpability of the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq will not be released until after November's elections, in effect depriving Americans of their right to judge elected
officials on the basis of their performance, writes EHSAN AHRARI...

Tribune
India's Kargil agenda is incomplete
Following the leak of an internal army report to the media last month, a number of issues relating to Operation Vijay and Operation Parakram have come up again, notably the incomplete story of Point 5353, writes Gen ASHOK K MEHTA...

Indian Express
Man of the Moment
Within weeks of his rather dramatic appointment as PM, a motley crowd has started writing books on Singh and many are already on the shelves. In bookshops, he's a familiar face...

The Hindu
Misleading patterns
Given the unreliability of the U.S. State Department's revised Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 Report in its assessment of South Asia, it is difficult to believe that it is any more accurate with regard to other parts of the world, says AJAY SAHNI

TOP PICKS

OPINION

Poll results: Badal all the way (Tribune)
Go ahead with FDI proposal (Tribune)
Blast case: Justice delivered late (Tribune)
Law and Islam: Temporizing again (Dawn)
Triple Talaz: Law board's whimper (Hindu)
Maths: Reviving a great tradition (Hindu)
Budget: It's pro-industry (Tribune)

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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

8 p.c. growth difficult
Balancing the budget
Guessing game for mutual funds Rupee loses 2 paise
Market ends flat in thin volume
Slowdown in industrial growth
Chinese firm plans unit in Bengal Tax reforms next fiscal

CORPORATE HEADLINES

UTI to foreclose two plans
ICICI Bank to raise $1 b
B2K, ICRA join hands
Auction of Government stock
L&T gets new director
M&B Footwear's plans
Airtel's network expansion plan
Textile industry accepts budget
KVB goes live with RTGS
Meet on Trade Fair 2004

EXCHANGE

Dollar: Rs 46.15
Pound: Rs 85.85
Euro: Rs 57.30
Yen: (100) Rs 44.10

* As on 12 July

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