Monday, 23 August 2004, 2200 hrs

NATION & STATES
India's own light transport
plane takes to the skies
The country's first indigenously designed and developed prototype light transport aircraft (LTA), Saras, undertook a 22-minute inaugural flight in Bangalore on Sunday...

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Govt held for failure to check
fraudulent companies
Parliamentary Standing Committee has rapped the government for its failure to keep a close eye on the fraudulent companies that have cheated the public over the past few years...

FEATURED STORIES

Rediff
India's first e-literate district
A rural e-learning project that the Kerala government launched a year ago has changed the lives of Malappuram residents.

Financial Express
Remembering Damyanti Chawla
With the passing away of Damyanti Chawla, we find an important era of our art coming to a close. Born in Lahore in 1920, she died at her home in Delhi a few days back, painting till the very end. Her dedication to art was exemplary.

Times of India
Athens: Time to pack up Mr Kalmadi
There has never been a sadder, more sordid saga in Indian sports than the Athens Olympics and the question must be asked of the Indian Olympic Association babudom why they should continue in office any longer, says AYAZ MEMON

Telegraph
Maoist maiden vs govt girls
Most of them left school a year or two back. They now wear the army uniform and carry sten guns or even MI 16s. Some frisk people with metal detectors and stop and search vehicles, while others wait their turn at duty. Meet Nepal’s first-ever fighting women soldiers.

Indian Express
Where is the human face?
The Maharashtra CM has announced an ‘action plan’ of Rs 222 crore to ‘counter malnutrition'. But nobody knows better than the Prime Minister that these are empty promises.

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