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Thursday, 22 July 2004, 1400 hrs

NATION & STATES
Iraqi group kidnaps three Indians,
threatens to behead them
An Iraqi group wants India to pull out of business in Iraq, and is threatening to behead three truck drivers

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Markets welcome slash in transaction tax
THE Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, today brought cheer to market players by announcing that the 0.15 per cent securities transaction tax (STT) would be confined to only delivery-based trade in equities, even while totally exempting sale and purchase of bonds from the levy...

FEATURED STORIES

Asia Times
India, Sikkim, China and a vexing lama
India's Supreme Court has blocked Tibet's second-best-known Buddhist lama from his exile monastery in the strategic Indian state of Sikkim. The move has major implications for India, China and the Dalai Lama, writes JULIAN GEARING

The Hindu
'We must persuade the US to define
itself as part of the UN system"
Joschka Fischer, Germany's high profile Foreign Minister and leader of the Green Party, is one of the world's more colourful statesmen. A fiery left-wing activist who once beat up a policeman in a demonstration, he has reinvented himself to emerge as perhaps Germany's most popular politician. An interview.

The Pioneer
Suicide: Dairy impales dons
He is gone and so only those who knew him closely would remember a tender soul. But what he leaves behind ought to jog the conscience of those who are supposed to epitomise empathy. Dr Rachit Gupta's suicide notes give an insight into a brilliant mind's myriad feelings and how they were throttled to death by insensitive seniors

Asia Times
Pakistan: Payback time
With President George W Bush running out of time, and Pakistan short of excuses, Islamabad will have to honor two pledges to the US: send troops to Iraq, and deliver a "high-value" terror suspect, says SEEMA SIROHI

CNN
Running the Internet under the radar
Open source software powers more than 70 per cent of all Web servers and routes much of the world's e-mail traffic. It's forcing established companies to rethink their business models.

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