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Saturday, 31 July 2004, 2200 hrs

NATION & STATES
India says it is keen on creation
of a pan-Asian community
New Delhi wants to be included in the dialogue Asean has been holding with leading Asian nations like Japan...

ECONOMY & BUSINESS
NTPC disinvestment to carry on
despite resistance
The government has decided to move forward for the divestment of its share in the public sector major National Thermal Power Corporation despite stiff opposition from the Leftist parties...

FEATURED STORIES

India Together
Muslim women: n ew aspirations
Begum Hamid Ali said in 1940 that "now the time has come that we, women, should resort to satyagraha for securing our equal rights ..." RAMACHANDRA GUHA thinks that educational aspirations - especially for Muslim girls - that have long been deferred may finally be nearer to reality.

Bangladesh Web
Good boy to rich nations
Bangladesh once again seems to be reneging on its pro-poor position at the ongoing World Trade Organisation talks in Geneva, writes TANIM AHMED

Times of India
Flight of the ghost jehadis
The paranoid press is full of accounts of how Mideast men are staking out airports, making probing dry runs, although common sense suggests they will not try the same methods again. By CHIDANANDA RAJGHATTA

Asia Times
Pakistan's king-maker drops a bombshell
The defection of Pir Pagara, Pakistan's leading king-maker, from the ruling party has caught many people unawares, and sends a warning to President Musharraf that he can't have everything his way. SYED SALEEM SHAHZAD tracks down the influential spiritual leader.

The Independent
Disaster that's as a global warning
All species of bird which inhabit the Shetland and Orkney islands have registered one of their worst breeding seasons in living memory

Japan Times
Drawing the line with China
India and China have held regular border negotiations since 1981 in the longest such process between two nations since the end of World War II. Yet, after 23 years of negotiations, the two Asian giants have not achieved a mutually defined line of control separating them. By BRAHMA CHELLANEY

Times of India
Kashmir roadmap: Congress losing way?
The Congress-led UPA government has certain advantages over its political predecessor in dealing with the Kashmir situation, but is it going in the right direction, wonders BALRAJ PURI.

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