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What is India DAILY ROUND-UP

Monday, 26 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
Finance minister moping up tax
arrears from big defaulters
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has swung into action to realise a tidy Rs 18,000 crore from undisputed direct and indirect tax arrears...

FEATURED STORIES


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

 TOP PICKS


OPINION

 Face the law (Deccan Herald)
 No consensus (Deccan Herald) 
 What’s Uncle Sam up to (Deccan Herald)
 Modifying a contentious proposal (Hindu)
 The Soren Drama (Hindu)
 The designer babies debate (Hindu)
 IIM fee structure controversy (Tribune)
 Pay for bandh (Tribune)
 Re-assess water needs (Tribune)
 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
FM to realise tax arrears 
RBI's salutary moves
 Tax benefits aid insurance firms
The steel conundrum
Latest cost index for capital gains
New concessions for industry
Tax relief restores bourses
FIIs inflow hits Rs 376.5 crore
Inflation rises further to 6.52%
 RBI action on GTB accepted
 New rules for power distribution
 Cabinet reshuffle likely
 Sensex rolls back, up 8 pts
 CORPORATE HEADLINES
SBI may take over GTB
 Godrej sets eye on food retailing
 GTB's shareholders stranded
 TT waiver- will markets revive?
 India Inc pays highest taxes 
 Inflation - Rupee to be relooked 
 Skoda may plans car for Asians
 Tata Steel:South African project
 A future for derivatives
 Global BPO to grow by 2008
 WORLD HEADLINES
Pakistan seeks parliament nod
 Kill scientists - animal rights chief
 India, Japan in defence dialogue
 FTA to figure in Sino-Indian talks
 Talks aim to end trade deadlock
 US hunts Islamic militants
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 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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Deccan Herald
 Indian Express
 Hindustan Times
 The Hindu
 Pioneer
 Economic Times
 Times of India
 Statesman
 Tribune
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