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  July 20, 2001               Today's News Search the Internet
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   Ashutosh Gowariker
   Director, Lagaan
   23 July, 1900 IST
   0930 EDT, 0630 PDT


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  What's New!
   The UTI Crisis

   Turmoil in Tamil Nadu

   Your take on the
   Indo-Pak summit

   Day's images

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  The Rediff Poll
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    Is India to blame for
    the failure of the
    Agra summit?
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  Money Specials
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   'Investment banking
   set for big growth'

   Building bridges
   via trade
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  Movies Specials
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  Dil Chahta Hai: The
  story in pictures

  In step with the Shetty

  'Why I married Amitabh'

  Rediscovering Sunny

  Dreaming big!

  Preity purrfect!

  Gadar -- my life!

  Around the world!

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   'Kashmir is the
   central issue'

   'A Mission to Lahore

   'A lose-lose situation'

   The Rajiv-Zia Summit

   'Kashmir will be the
   last to be solved'

   'Trouble in Tashkent'

   A solution for Siachen'

   'Any agreement will be
   weighed against the
   memories of Kargil'

   'The summit is not
   a tamasha'

   India, Pakistan do
   battle in cyberspace

   'Pakistan should learn
   to forget Kashmir'

   'The Khalistan problem
   is not over'

   No danger to our
   neighbours: Muivah

   A commando
   turned president

   News Specials

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   'The Indian team does     not take steroids'

   Asif Iqbal on allegations
   of match-fixing

   'BCCI is the best-run
   organisation in
   the country'

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TOP REPORTS
Rocco confident sanctions on India will go
US Assistant Secretary of State Christina B Rocca said the sanctions will be lifted after the current review and consultations with Congress.

No compromise on J&K, terrorism: PM
Vajpayee accused Pakistan of converting the Agra summit into a propaganda platform.

India, US to revive defence cooperation
General Henry H Shelton, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said 'substantive' defence ties with India were not aimed at either Pakistan or China.

Agra spirit should be carried forward: Pak
A Pakistan foreign ministry statement said the failure to reach an agreement at Agra on the full text of a joint statement was due to differences on one of its paragraphs.

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 Top militant outfit forcibly
  recruiting Kashmiri youth

 3 Indian refugees escape
 Aussie detention centre

 Shibu Soren loses
 Rajya Sabha membership

 APJSM to launch movement
  for creating Jammu state

 No Indian POWs
 in our jails: Pak

 Bombay blasts trial
 ends after 6 years

 Centre writes off Orissa's debt
 to help combat flood: PTI

 J&K govt refuses to increase
 number of Amarnath pilgrims: PTI

 Maneka protests against move
 to kill stray dogs in Bombay

 More...

  Column   Interview     Special
Ketan ParekhThe KP scam: Bigger than 1992 'Atalji was on the offensive'
  Ganguly/JayasuriyaThe tale of two captains
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OTHER REPORTS
Nepal's PM G P Koirala resigns
The prime minister had been under immense pressure to resign ever since the royal family massacre last month.

Blair may visit India later this year
The British prime minister is one of the few Western heads of government not to have visited New Delhi since his Labour Party first swept to power in 1997. MONEY INTERVIEW
'US-64 crisis may help boost private MFs'
'Investors who went to UTI only for security will now look at other mutual funds,' says Vivek Reddy, chief executive of Kothari Pioneer.

MONEY
AES threatens to pull out of Orissa
The American power company wants a significant increase in tariff levels and clearance of all past dues.

FAQs on the UTI liquidity package
The Unit Trust of India seeks to clarify the doubts that investors have regarding repurchase of US-64 units.

Pass Pass plays cupid in Yaadein
Subhash Ghai's latest film has Pass Pass mouth freshener, Hero Cycles and Coke as guest stars.

MARKET REPORT
Mkts@July 19: NIIT leads market decline
While the poor quarterly performance by NIIT affected new economy stocks, old economy stocks were weak because of the poor results of steel major Tata Steel.

THE INDO-PAK SUMMIT
Upset Musharraf is still optimistic
Citing the examples of Palestine and Northern Ireland, where negotiations have been going on for decades to achieve peace, the general said resolving such issues took time.

Indo-Pak Summit: The Complete Coverage

CRICKET
Sachin's absence not a worry: Ganguly
We have a young, eager to win team, said the Indian team captain.

England ride luck as rain hits second test
England was four wickets down for 121 runs in its first innings, which was marred by rain and bad light.

Hearing of Azhar's case put off to Aug 2
The case was adjourned in view of an interim order by the Andhra Pradesh high court, staying all further proceedings in the original suit filed by the former India captain in a lower court.

TV rights probe: CBI officer in London
DIG S P Singh will meet officials of the ICC and Scotland Yard in connection with the reselling of telecast rights by Doordarshan.

India withdraw from indoor series
The decision was taken after the BCCI held discussions with the Indian players and heard their concerns about the team's workload.

MOVIES
'I can sacrifice myself for Kashmir!'
Amitabh Bachchan reacts to the failure of the Agra summit.

'Aks is not emotionally satisfying'
Foreign audiences are disappointed with the Big B's film.

NORTH AMERICA
Indo-Canadian named foreign policy adviser
Sanjeev Choudhry, 32, who was elevated to this position on Wednesday, finished his term as assistant trade commissioner in the Canadian consulate in Bombay last year.

Suicide shocks Canadian Tamil community
The police found Sri Lankan Tamilian Yaso Mahendran's semi-conscious body, along with the bodies of her two children, in the trunk of a car.

GUIDE TO THE NET
The electronic quadrangle
On Indian campuses, the action has moved online.

Best of the Web
A look at the 10 sites that won the Webby Awards announced in San Francisco on July 18.

How can I watch movies online?
Learn from Dr Know.

Student arrested for peddling sex
Undercover police arrested two practitioners of 'assisted relationships'.

COLUMNS
The KP scam: Bigger than 1992
'If one were to simply add up the amounts mentioned in SEBI's various reports, the size of Parekh's manipulations is far bigger than the Rs 50-odd billion securities scandal of 1992,' says Sucheta Dalal.

Heartache overshadowed by the summit
'The Government of India accepts that it cannot let down its guard on the Pakistan border. But that shouldn't mean that the doors of the economy are left without wardens,' warns T V R Shenoy.

The Musharraf logic
'How will a change in the LoC make any difference if people are not given real power? Musharraf should consider alternatives that meet the aspirations of the people, not the ones that may help religious or separatist forces tear apart India's fabric,' says Kuldip Nayar.

Waiting for Mr Potential
Avinash Subramaniam reflects on the decline of Ajit Agarkar

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 Sena leader joins Congress

 Court allows relatives to
 visit Bharat Shah

 Zakir to quit the tabla?

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  Money & Business
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 UTI chief rules out
 heavy redemption in US-64

 Latest corporate headlines

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  PTI Business News
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 Ketan Parekh denies having a
 Swiss bank account

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  Reuters Business News
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 Banks promise more support
 to the Unit Trust

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  Cricket News
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 Patel c Patel b Patel

 Batting let us
 down: Fleming

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  Sports
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 New Zealand shock India in
 hockey World Cup qualifiers

 Gopichand advances, Abhinn loses

 Anand, Adams play a quick draw

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  Rediff USA Specials
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 The Hugging Saint

 Shades of Aug 15 in July 4

 Lara Dutta in Manhattan!

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  Guide to the Net
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 Who bares, wins!

 Certified success

 Idol minds

 Coffee, tea or cybersex?

 All about Bas Itna Sa Khwab Hai

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  Columnists
 G Parthasarathy says India
 dealt with Musharraf maturely

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