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Friday, 6 August 2004, 1700 hrs

NATION & STATES
Suicide sqaud raids camp, kills
nine paramilitary soldiers
Militants struck in Kashmir a week ahead of Independence Day, killing nine paramilitary men in Srinagar

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Excise duty on textiles likely to go
in next budget
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has hinted that the existing tax structure on man-made fibres would be abolished in the next budget...

FEATURED STORIES

Indian Express
Many layers of a hostage crisis
The arrival of Talmiz Ahmad in Baghdad as the MEA’s envoy has given just the right signals to the Iraqis: any harm to the Indians will undermine the popular mood in India against occupation, says SAEED NAQVI

India Together
Faulty frame, savage reality
If you raise the price of your product and offer a discount on the higher price, some people will get taken in by such 'sales'. The WTO has just pulled off this kind of scheme, and negotiators from developing countries, India included, have much to answer for. DEVNIDER SHARMA dissects the newest deal on trade in agriculture.

Indian Express
The King of Now
Henri Cartier-Bresson was such a young man all his life, all his 95 years — how could he die? He was such a graceful athlete, such an instantaneous master of photographs taken at what he called ‘‘the decisive moment’’— of the scowl on the face of a woman in a museum, of both the menace and calculating perception on the face of elfin.

BBC
Fewer UK students study in Europe
More British students are studying abroad, but they are shunning Europe for English-speaking countries, researchers say.

Deccan Herald
Unscrambling history
Kannada inscriptions of four dynasties have just been compiled and published. Three volumes are out, reports SHUBHA SRIKANTH

Tribune
Pakistanis advised Bin Laden?
Arnaud de Borchgrave is a renowned journalist, associated earlier with Newsweek and the United Press International (UPI). He says the 9/11 commission has received information that the Pakistanis had advised Bin Laden on how to attack key targets in the US when he was undergoing periodic dialysis in the Peshawar military hospital. By K SUBRAHMANYAM

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