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   'Make that supreme
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   My friend from Islamabad

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   'Leave J&K status quo
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   Ram and Allah, be
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   The errors of Simla

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   Where's your home,
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   'You are unhuman
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   My flag, my country

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   'It is a lose-lose situation
   if India-Pakistan do
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   'Kashmir will be the last
   issue to be resolved'

   Musharraf's options:
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   'Becoming home minister    has cast a burden on me'

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NEWS
3 Indian refugees escape Aussie detention centre
The detention centre has refused entry to visitors and efforts to find out the names of the refugees have failed to elicit a positive response from the authorities so far.

Rocca confident sanctions against India will go: PTI
US Assistant Secretary of State Christina B Rocca said the lifting of sanctions would happen after the current review and consultations with Congress.

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  Breaking News
 China sees security issues
 on Indian border

 Agra spirit should be
 taken forward: Pak

 Musharraf may remit sentences
 of 25 jailed Indians

 Sacked Orissa minister Mohanty
 expelled from BJD: PTI

 APJSM to launch movement
 for creating Jammu state

 Summit lacked 'structured
 agenda': Opposition

 Top militant outfit forcibly
 recruiting local Kashmiri youth

 Zakir to quit the tabla?: PTI

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  Interview   Movies     Special
Narendra Modi'Atalji Was on the Offensive'
Amitabh Bachchan'Aks is Not Emotionally Satisfying'
 

Sourav Ganguly/Sanath JayasuriyaThe Tale of Two Captains

Nepal's Prime Minister G P Koirala resigns
His successor is likely to be Foreign Minister Chakra Bastola, a relative who recently took over the home portfolio after deputy prime minister Ram Chandra Poudel quit.

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.

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

Indo-Pak Summit: Complete Coverage

NEWS
India, US to revive Defence Planning Group
The chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff General Henry H Shelton said that 'substantive' defence ties with India was not aimed at either Pakistan or China.

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

Jaswant may not attend ASEAN meeting
Sources in Ottawa said Canadian foreign minister John Manley had been very keen to meet his Indian counterpart to discuss the Agra summit.

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.

Indo-Canadian named 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.

MONEY
AES threatens to pull out of Orissa
It is demanding a significant rise in tariff levels to make distribution viable and clearance of all past dues.

Of success and community service
Anurag 'Ani' Agnihotri, the founder of Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, helps promote trade relations between India and the US.

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.
FAQ: The UTI Liquidity Package

MOVIES
Zakir to bid adieu to the tabla?
Nagging pain in the fingers or disappointment over commercialisation the cause.

'I can sacrifice myself for Kashmir!'
Amitabh Bachchan will do anything for his motherland.

CRICKET
Tendulkar's absence not a worry: Ganguly
"We have a young team, the average age is 23. We're eager to win," he added.

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.

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

Images from 2nd Ashes Test at Lords

SPORTS
Gopichand advances, Abhinn loses
Chetan Anand and Sachin Ratti too lost in the first round

NET GUIDE
Students caught peddling sex online
Two young practitioners of 'assisted relationships' arrested by undercover cops. More headlines...

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,' says T V R Shenoy.

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 Survey finds corporates'
 sentiment low

 ONGC unveils plans to
 develop small oilfields

 Sebi Act may be
 referred to JPC: BS

 Passenger car sales
 rise in June: Reuters

 Brokers plan stir on July 23

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 Hearing of Azhar's case
 put off to August 2

 Venues changed in
 Sri Lanka tri-series

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 Prasad sights GM norm

 Indian soccer team looks for
 improvement in England

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  Columnists
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 G Parthasarathy on
 Musharraf and the K word

 Saisuresh Sivaswamy on the
 Indo-Pak summit

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