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Thursday, 29 July 2004, 2200 hrs

NATION & STATES
Iraqi group sends videotape with gun held to Indian truck driver's head
Kidnappers holding seven foreign truck drivers hostage threatened to kill one of them on Friday if they received no response to their demands...

ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Government clearing decks for
foreign hedge funds
The Ministry of Finance and the Securities and Exchange Board of India are busy preparing to put up the welcome sign for foreign hedge funds to enter the Indian capital market in a big way...

FEATURED STORIES

Deccan Herald
Hostage taking as psychological war
Hostage taking is psychologically deadly but counter-productive if used indiscriminately, writes SUDHA RAMACHANDRAN

The Hindu
India and China: a shifting paradigm
Until recently politics was in command of Sino-Indian ties. Now economics has begun to drive the relationship, writes C RAJA MOHAN

Rediff
'UNDP is ignorant and insolent'
'In Gujarat, of the total killed, about a third were Hindus. If, at one stage, 100,000 Muslims were struggling in relief camps, so were 40,000 Hindus. Thus, Gujarat 2002 was not genocide,' argues ARVIND LAVKARE

Pioneer
'Abdul Ghaffar Khan was lonely in jail'
Rajmohan Gandhi was asked by Asfandyar Khan to write a biography of his grandfather Frontier Gandhi. In this interview, Gandhi talks about his family's ties with the 'Gandhis' of Pakistan

Deccan Herald
At the heart of conflict
Neruda captured the blood on 20th century’s streets, soaked his words in it and recreated them into flowers of fire

Financial Express
Signs Of Trouble In The Financial Sector
Times Bank promoted by a media group came with a lot of fanfare, says P N VIJAY, but the owners realised that starting a bank is tougher than starting an FM channel playing remixes!

Rediff
Mumbai's crowning glory
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, now a World Heritage Site, is a monument of unusual grandeur.

Jang
Sharif and Kargil: A review
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, currently politically marginalised, periodically flags the Kargil issue. His three main contentions are: that the Kargil operation was planned and executed by the army under the COAS General Parvez Musharraf’s leadership without his knowledge; that the operation was a major fiasco, and those responsible for Kargil deserve to be penalised. An analysis by NASIM ZEHRA

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