Monday, May 09 2005, 1530 hrs

PM Visits Russia
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Russia on a three day trip where he will hold bilateral meetings with several world leaders. Top European Union leaders, the US President, and Chinese President are also visiting Moscow.

It's already a world heritage 
THE Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar is already a world heritage and priceless treasure. It needs no certificate from any agency, much less the UNESCO says Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd).

Who's afraid of Dawood Ibrahim?
Once he held the underworld in his sway. Today, minus a number of his key henchmen, and with recruitment to his ranks slowing down, the snake, Mumbai police believe, has been defanged say Sudipta Basu and Satish Nandgaonkar.

Al-Qaeda witch-hunt in Pakistan's army
Following his apprehension in Pakistan, al-Qaeda's Abu Faraj al-Libbi will soon be placed in the hands of US interrogators, who will be particularly keen to grill him on his connections with al-Qaeda's North African and British cells. But it's the Pakistan army that will be shaking in its boots says Syed Saleem Shahzad.

Organizing Trade
A recent presentation of an ongoing study on China by Jean-Francois Huchet, professor, University of Rennes in France, brought out some less-known facts about the Chinese economy. China today is more open in sharing data, there is more private collection and dissemination of data and many Chinese economists share the suspicion of government data.