Friday, 13 August 2004, 1900 hrs

NATION & STATES
Manipur's healing touch hurts Delhi
The Congress-led Manipur government on Thursday defied the Centre’s opinion and lifted from select areas an act that allows special powers for the armed forces...

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Government discussing merger of
public sector oil corporations
The petroleum ministry today began discussions on restructuring public sector companies in the hydrocarbons sector...

FEATURED STORIES

India Together
Seeds of hope
With the energy import bill rising all the time, and enormous needs still to be met, the government as well as private players are looking at biofuels as an alternative to traditional petroleum. K V PRAYUKTH reports on the prospects for the Jatropha, now the most likely plant to be harnessed.

The Hindu
The `best hope' in South Asia
Despite a profoundly questionable American effort to prop up an unpopular and disingenuous regime in Pakistan, India should doggedly focus on the pursuit of its own interests, writes SUMIT GANGULY

Rediff
Will the Marxists only bark?
Has the time come for the Left Front to bite, or will the Communists be content only to bark, now that the UPA ministry has taken a decision on employees' provident fund that threatens to expose the pretensions of the Marxists? By T V R SHENOY

Tribune
Spare a thought for Blue Bull
The Blue Bull is endemic to India alone, that is, it is not found anywhere else in the world, which places it in the class of living world heritage that needs to be preserved to posterity. India can show that man-animal conflict is avoidable, says Lt Gen BALJIT SINGH (retd)

Telegraph
Cultural cringing on secularism
It is no real surprise that Ashis Nandy’s reiteration of his iconoclastic “Anti-Secularist Manifesto” (first published in 1985) in Outlook magazine has triggered the first lively debate of the Manmohan Singh era. Reducing colonialism to a single design is poor history, writes SWAPAN DASGUPTA

Rediff
How India can innovate like the US
Innovations do not happen by magic. If the US has done it consistently, it's because US society, academia and industry have institutionalised innovation, says ARINDAM BANERJEE

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