The Indian Analyst, All the news and views you need on India, Wednesday, February 17, 2005

Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1300 hrs

TOP STORIES
Centre proposes unified
force to tackle Naxals
As the armed revolutionaries spread their operations in neglected areas, a worried Centre wants to work with the states to form a unified commando force

BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Gas pipeline: Transit fee
Pakistan's only concern
Pakistan Petroleum Minister Amanullah Khan Jadoon said his country would have no issue with India on how it secured its gas supply as long as Islamabad was paid the transit fee

FEATURE PICKS

India Together
Unchecked textbook racket
The dimensions of a open, unchecked textbook publishing racket has recently come to light following the defeat of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government in the general elections last year. SRINIDHI RAGHAVENDRA reports

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Asia Times
India's creaking infrastructure
For sustained growth, India's infrastructure needs a quantum leap. The government has sanctioned only a fraction of what it needs to overhaul the urban infrastructure: while developed countries invest 4-7% of their gross domestic product on infrastructure, India spends a princely 0.6%. By KUNAL KUMAR KUNDU

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Deccan Herald
A three-way power struggle
The King�s gambit looks like a huge gamble which may end up by even drawing the curtain on the monarchy, writes PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA

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The Hindu
Civil society and the state
The discourse over the attack on S.A.R. Geelani has revealed a number of disturbing trends, says HARISH KHARE

EDITORIAL PICKS

Kyoto: Jinxed at birth? (Hindu)
Savings and investment (Hindu)
No pardon for A Q Khan (Pioneer)
Complex? That's the oil world (Pioneer)

OP-ED

What is India Exclusives

The US, China and India
A partnership with India, by whatever name, could provide America a way to offset the surge in China's geo-political and economic power,
writes RAM NARAYANAN
(Washington Post)

Why are they scoffing
at Hinduism?
Why is Sri Jayendra Saraswati being persecuted? Is it because his disciples don't take out violent marches and destroy public property? USHA KRIS asks President Abdul Kalam why the innocent are being tormented

PIL against seer: Court's ire
CIA task on Pak anti-terror drive
Nepal coup shows US hypocrisy
Indian style democracy in Iraq
Death from stampede avoidable
Tsunami: Tad Murthy speaks
India's Look East Policy
NRI donates $10 m for college
Resurgent violence in J&K
What does it mean to be a Hindu in India?
Indian Elections: Verdict 2004
Meritocracy in the private sector
War on the people
United protest in New York
Middle class devotee's appeal
Pillar of Hinduism
Nov 11 turned out like Sept 11
'Nobody is above the law'
'SP has no regard for law'
Temple: Perfect, stately and tall
US leaders oppose F-16 sale

ACADEMIC PAPERS

What is India Exclusives

Hinduism: Universal religion
Hinduism's lofty ideals make it a way of life, not just a speculative philosophy, says Y S GOWRAMMA

Health education in India
Governments, media, academic institutions and NGOs, have to work in close collaboration to give India an effective health education system, write
Dr B P MAHESH CHANDRA GURU, SAPNA M S and
MADHURA VEENA M L

INSCRIPTIONS

ONLY ON WHAT IS INDIA

South Indian Inscriptions

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

Volume 8
Chola Inscriptions

Volume 10
Telugu Inscriptions
from Andhra Pradesh

Volume 12

Pallava Inscriptions

Volume 14

Pandya Inscriptions

Volume 16
Telugu Inscriptions
of the Vijayanagara Dynasty

Volume 17

Inscriptions Collected
During 1903-1904

BUSINESS HEADLINES

India warned of fiscal deficit
States ignore Centre’s query
India ‘mostly unfree’

CORPORATE HEADLINES

Booklet on tax released
Rate revision welcomed
IVRCL bags new orders
Phillips Carbon gets stamp

WORLD HEADLINES

Iran to go ahead with reactor
Hamas promise on ceasefire
Tribute to Allied bomb victims
US monitors Iran arms

Interesting links

Southern Asia Collection
at the University of
Chicago Library
Photographs, digital resources, exhibitions, bibliographies, links

US-India Friendship
Online resource for friends
of India