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Saturday, 24 July 2004, 1400 hrs

NATION & STATES
India seeks help from Islam scholars
to save hostages in Iraq
As time ticks away for the three Indians seeking freedom from their captors in Iraq, India has approached Islamic scholars in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and sought their intervention for the release of the captives...

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Task force recommends tax cuts
The task force on implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, chaired by Vijay Kelkar, adviser to Finance Minister P Chidambaram, has recommended cuts in taxes across the board...

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The New Statesman
Theories set to change the world
What are the big ideas that will shape the 21st century? The News Statesman asked six writers to forecast the future in physics, economics, culture, politics, neuroscience and psychology.

The New Statesman
From the ground up
Whether you want to complain about trees or pay your council tax, local authorities are using new technology to provide a better, more convenient service. ALEXANDER STEVENSON on why they are ahead of the game.

The Indian Express
Playing with water... no, fire
The SYL mess matches the Rubaiya disaster in its scale of govt incompetence. It unmasks a political class which can’t decide where self-interest ends and national interest begins, laments SHEKHAR GUPTA

The Hindu
Not just the centre, the periphery, too
It is not just happening in Lhasa, but in smaller towns and villages too. If Lhasa is bustling with construction activity and new stores are filled with electronic gadgets to the latest four wheelers, smaller towns are not far behind. AMIT BARUAH takes a tour through Tibet.

Financial Express
Strategic options on regional trade pacts
The ‘new regionalism’ fashioned by European Union and NAFTA was motivated by the desire of major developed countries to strengthen the competitiveness of their industries, says NAGESH KUMAR

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