Friday, 03 September 2004, 1700 hrs

NATION & STATES
Crucial talks with Pakistan: Singh,
Vajpayee exchange views
Two days before the Delhi round, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had a breakfast meeting with his predecessor Vajpayee...

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Inflation zooms past 8 per cent
All major indices - primary articles, fuels and manufactured products- move up...

FEATURED STORIES

The Hindu
Countering terror
Where counter-terrorism violates human rights, it produces state terrorism directed against a nation's own people, says RAJEEV DHAVAN

Asia Times
From puppet to prime minister
The Indian government's biggest achievement under Singh has been to restore the imbalance between politics and governance, while the premier himself has revealed that he possesses a somewhat wily streak that he has been able to use to good effect, says TARINI UNNIKRISHNAN

India Together
Adolescent alert!
The Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) has released a training manual to assist doctors in counselling adolescents and teenagers on sexuality and related matters. The IAP has already trained more than 1,000 doctors across the country in the last four years. Nitin Jugran Bahuguna reports.

Tribune
Should death penalty die?
Dhananjoy Chatterjee died on the gallows leaving behind one worthwhile bequest — an intense debate whether it was not time India too joined the majority of the countries of the world in abolishing capital punishment, says PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA

TOP PICKS

OPINION
Would Chirac refuse to meet PM? (Tribune)
Children as hostages (Tribune)
Befitting package (Tribune)
Infrastructure is the key (Hindu)
Who's afraid of Michael Moore? (Hindu)
Blow for equality (Deccan Herald)
Vibrant religion (Deccan Herald)
Entangled in terror (Hindustan Times)
Religion of Man (Hindustan Times)

What is India Editorial

Water and river management
in South Asia
Given China's disastrous environmental record, India should join an Asian alliance to pressure its big neighbour into behaving more responsibly, says
ARAVIND SITARAMAN

More edits

The failed Kashmir Women's Disqualification Bill
The state is better off without laws that seek to alienate and marginalise its people

It is raining bad politics
The Hubli drama holds a mirror to divisive politics.

INSCRIPTIONS

South Indian Inscriptions

Original texts from four states, transcribed from a definitive work published by the Archaeological Survey of India

Volume 10
Telugu Inscriptions
from Andhra Pradesh

Volume 3 (Part I and II)
Miscellaneous Inscriptions
in Tamil
(Will be uploaded soon)

ONLY ON WHAT IS INDIA

BUSINESS HEADLINES

ONGC: SEZ in Kakinada

Dabhol project may get sops

FMCG packages on anvil

India to seek oilfields in Iran

Industry demands cheap power

Trai’s proposal opposed

Boost tourism: Renuka

US defies WTO ruling

Do not misuse schemes, Nath

Indian oil merger and a regulator

Sebi’s income declines

Rationalise taxes on cars- Montek

Package for textile sector soon

Sensex up by 13pts

CORPORATE HEADLINES

Intel cuts outlook, stock falls

New EDs at Kotak Investment

Round One to Lodha

Truckers’ strike hits car sales

Letter shows up Birla rifts

Time Warner hikes MGM bid

Tata set to tap Chinese market

GAIL, to study national gas grid

Infy to invest $10 m in Finacle

Reliance eyes automotive biz

Dabur to buy Mysore Sandal

Citibank jumps into card war

Bajaj Auto to launch Discover

WORLD HEADLINES

Anwar Ibrahim released
Bloodied hostages at Russia siege
1,500 hostages still trapped
Bush, Kerry square off over Iraq
Floridians flee as storm looms
Uneasy calm returns to Nepal
Iraq militants kill three Turks
Rebels take 400 hostage in Russia

EXCHANGE

Dollar: 46.85

Pound: 84.50

Euro: 57.20

Yen: (100) 44.20

SOURCES

Pioneer

Tribune

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