TOP HEADLINES
• 'Tech jobs downturn may end by mid-2002'
• India seeks MFN status from Pakistan
• Indian pact for 2 UAE pharma projects
• Coffee Day outlets now coming to north India
• A-I selloff plan in complete disarray
• Cipla to supply seven drugs to Ivax
• Pentasoft Tech cuts jobs, wages
• Ranbaxy gets US nod for anxiety drug
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CORPORATE HEADLINES
• BSE imposes special margin on 27 scrips
• Jaipan Industries declares bonus issue
• BSE imposes AVM on 6 scrips
• Jindal Steel fixes book closure for dividend
• Creative Eye director Godrej dead
• Varun Shipping appoints nominee Director
• SBI appoints new Directors
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INTRA-DAY MARKET REPORT
Market sheds some earlier gains
Selling pressure in select new and old economy stocks. Pharma stocks in the limelight. Bajaj Auto up 5%. Zee up 4%.

DAILY TECHNICALS
Trading strategy for September 3, 2001
Sensex, NIIT, Telco, Ranbaxy, Cipla... Check out what you can do on Monday.

COLUMN
When everybody else takes pay-cuts, our netas get a hike
'The raise to 790 super-privileged persons is resented by most of India's billion-strong population,' says Sucheta Dalal.

STOCK TALK
'Most traders lose money'
'It is a tough period and no one is making money by sitting. However it will pass. India still retains an edge in IT and I believe that,' says Ramesh Shrichand Damani.

INTERVIEWS
'India must get the world to condemn what the US is doing with patents'
'If Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights is to be a binding treaty, then the Convention on Biological Biodiversity must be an equally binding treaty. The Americans must be forced to accept it,' says Suman Sahai, Convener, Gene Campaign.
'We have resoundingly lost the basmati case'

'WTO cannot be blamed for our inaction'
'We have been sleeping over the inevitable challenges that we knew would arise out of signing the WTO pact. But there's no point in looking back. We should pull up our socks now,' says
Dr M S Swaminathan.

'A new WTO round will be useful'
'India can play a more effective role if it joins the negotiations soon,' says US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.

THE BUDGET & GOVT POLICIES
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