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  July 21, 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!
   FAQ: UTI's Liquidity
   Package

   The UTI Crisis

   Turmoil in Tamil Nadu

   The Indo-Pak Summit

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  The Rediff Poll
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  Money Specials
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   'Investment banking
   set for big growth'

   Building bridges
   via trade
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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
Straight shooting general eyes Kashmir
Musharraf addressing the media for the first time after the Agra summit said there is no need to be diplomatic and manipulative on the Kashmir issue.

India rejects Musharraf's 'Core' issue
Shortly after Musharraf's press conference in Islamabad, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said that Kashmir is an integral part of India.

Major cross-border infiltration in Kashmir
According to a top level intelligence official around 500 jihadis have infiltrated Kashmir during the last three months.

Subramanyam taken for interrogation by CBI
The former UTI chairman has been charged with cheating, criminal conspiracy and misappropriation of funds.

Pakistani artillery shells Kargil
Five shells hit the Kargil dak bungalow. Reports said the shelling continued through the day.

India crumble on Lankan dustbowl
Chasing is not always fun, Ganguly discovers

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 Congress, BJP spoil
 for a fight on summit

 Coastal Orissa fears
 more devastation

 Pakistan unveils
 MBT Khalid

 Pakistan to protect
 Indo-Iran gas pipeline

 Sushma blames Musharraf for
 failure of summit: PTI

 Jama Masjid imam says he
 faces threat from Lashkar

 Lankan commission to
 investigate 1983 anti-Tamil riots

 Race for chair of Nepal
 prime minister begins

 Driving a train easier
 than driving a car: Official

 Demand for J&K
 polls hots up

 Ten militants among
 11 killed in Kashmir

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Musharraf/VajpayeeThe hype has failed. Let the
talks begin
Hum ho gaye aap ke. The story
in pictures

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SC admits petitions against Jaya as CM
A three-judge bench, however, dismissed DMK general secretary K Anbazhagan's request to be impleaded in the matter, saying it did not want the case to become political.

MONEY
1000 techies in Wipro benched: Premji
This accounts for 10 per cent of the total employees in Wipro Technologies.

MARKET REPORT
Mkts@July 20: Sensex sheds 30 points
The market lost ground as selling pressure grew after news of the CBI raids. Tech stocks were the worst hit. NIIT was down 20 per cent. Old economy pivotals lost ground. The Nifty lost 8 points at 1078.

POST-SUMMIT NEWS
The PoWs are in Attock Fort: relatives
Despite Pakistan maintaining that there are no prisoners of war in its jails, the families of the 54 missing officers have not lost hope.

THE MANIPUR CRISIS
Ratan Thiyam returns his Padma Shri
In a letter to the President, the renowned theatre personality said he was taking the 'painful decision' in protest against the Centre's callousness towards the crisis in Manipur.

FOREIGN NEWS
Indian to lead kids' hospital at Stanford
Vadiyala Mohan Reddy, one of the pre-eminent paediatric cardiac surgeons in the world, will be the division chief for heart surgical services at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

Jeffrey Archer's story ends in prison
The 61-year-old millionaire author, peer and former Conservative Party deputy chairman was convicted of perjury and intending to pervert the course of justice.

MOVIES
Juniors in seniors stakes
Of child artistes who make it big.

GUIDE TO THE NET
Best of the Web
A look at the 10 sites on man's greatest achievement in space.

Defrosted, after 13 years
A man has kept his father's corpse in a large freezer in the hope he might someday be brought back to life. .

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  PTI News
 1 killed, 130 injured
 in Manipur protests: PTI

 108 terrorists killed in J&K
 in first fortnight of July: PTI

 Sena activists 'cleanse'
 Musharraf's 'haveli': PTI

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  Money & Business
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 Reliance set to launch
 basic telephony

 Tarapore to head panel
 probing UTI activities

 Latest corporate headlines

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 9.5 mn govt employees
 on strike on July 25

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 Prasar Bharati restrained on telecast rights

 Gayle blows Zimbabwe in Test

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 Gopichand bows out of
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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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 The electronic quadrangle

 How can I watch movies online?

 Who bares, wins!

 Certified success

 Idol minds

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  Columnists
 Sucheta Dalal on the
 Ketan Parekh case

 T V R Shenoy on the
 economic threat to India

 Kuldip Nayar on the logic
 of General Musharraf

 Avinash Subramaniam on
 the wait for Ajit Agarkar

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