Monday, 14 February 2005, 1200 hrs

TOP STORIES
Approver says Kanchi seer's counsel tried to bribe him
Ravi Subramaniam, accused-turned-approver in the Sankararaman murder case, has sought action against two lawyers, one of them a defence counsel in the case
 
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Stock market growth
sign of good times
As stock prices continue to surge and Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) remain bullish, India is probably beginning to see the first signs of a growing stock bubble
 

Asia Times
Pakistan leaves arms calling card 
Pakistani military officials and government-affiliated specialists have recently made a series of public and private presentations and studies in the US highlighting potential nuclear dangers in South Asia. The underlying thread is to support Islamabad's position that Washington should supply it with major weapons as a counter to India. By KAUSHIK KAPISTALAM

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Outlook
Jeopardizing peace
By failing to gather the courage to tell the NSCN-IM leadership that the redrawing of the maps of the volatile region in the Northeast, the government will not only lose the Naga rebel group, sooner rather than later when this reality has to be faced, but will also create more enemies within, says WASBIR HUSSAIN

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India Together
The beauty obsession 
Since the economy opened to foreign investment, the influx of European and American images of beauty have deeply impacted the notion of what it is. SUSAN RUNKLE notes how over the last decade, international standards for fair and lovely have taken firm hold.

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Indian Express
Seven reforms the Left 
cannot complain about
Hike education cess but use it to double schools, end ITDC monopoly on duty-free, let pvt firms roll out battle tanks, Limit LPG subsidy to one cylinder. No shame in this for Left, says SHEKHAR GUPTA

EDITORIAL PICKS

Fake universities (Tribune)
Lower learning (Indian Express)
The Korean bomb (Tribune)
Miller: Death of a playwright (Tribune)
Bank on reform (Indian Express)
Resurrection in education (Pioneer)