Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 1700 hrs

NATION & STATES
Tie up stamp paper scam probe
quickly, Supreme Court tells CBI
The court wants the Central Bureau of Investigation to complete its investigation as expeditiously as possible into the 48 cases relating to the Rs 30,000-crore Abdul Karim Telgi stamp paper scam...

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Employee Provident Fund interest
slashed to 8.5 per cent
More than 30 million salaried employees will be affected by the cut in the interest rate on provident fund from 9 to 8.5 per cent...

FEATURED STORIES

The Telegraph
Rural Bengal’s puzzle
There is a long-standing belief in West Bengal that agrarian reforms — which began with Operation Barga in the late '70s — have raised agricultural productivity and rural incomes. Are the villages producing more and consuming less? By OMKAR GOSWAMI

Rediff
They too were patriots
Sixty two years after Indians began the movement that ultimately expelled the British, few remember that August 9 was the day when Mahatma Gandhi ignited a whole nation with three short Hindi words -- Karo Ya Maro. A tribute to unsung patriots by ARCHANA MASIH

Outlook
In the waiting-room of history
Dipesh Chakrabarty's book 'Provincialising Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference' is not only an unusually sustained and nuanced argument against European ideas of modernity, but also an elegy for, and subtle critique of, his own intellectual formation and inheritance as a Bengali. By AMIT CHAUDHURI

India Together
PDS Reform: Another step for the better
Ration shopkeepers wont divulge their records, Food Department officials wont file complaints, and the police wont act on their own or accept complaints from the public. Is the cycle of corruption complete? A public hearing in Delhi shows there may still be some options. VARUPI JAIN reports on the latest from the NGO Parivartan.

Times of India
Everybody loves farm suicides
Remember the book 'Everybody Loves a Drought', exposing how many vested interests benefit from drought relief? We need another book titled 'Everybody Loves Farm Suicides', says SWAMINATHAN ANKLESARIA IYER

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