Human rights watchdog Amnesty appealed to Indian political parties on Friday not to give parliamentary approval to a controversial anti-terrorism decree and instead work to strengthen the criminal justice system.

People, protesting arrest of some girls by security forces last night, attacked a police station and vandalised some buildings forcing the police to fire warning shots in the air at Bandipora town in north Kashmir, official sources said.

With the international energy giant, Enron Corporation, facing bankruptcy, Indian financial institutions have become concerned about the Rs. 6,204 crores exposure they have in the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company (DPC) in Maharashtra.

Minister for Health, Government of Kerala, admitted to Medical Colege Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala,recovers

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What they don't tell on CNN.

multinationals sometimes have unclean histories... (racism, environment, monopolisation,...)

More political parties and organisations today jumped on the Opposition bandwagon, criticising the across-the- board hike in the rates announced by the State Government yesterday for services and consumables

It is the middle class that has been hit hard by the latest power tariff revision.

Maoist rebels in Nepal bombed a Coca-Cola factory in Balaju, on the outskirts of Kathmandu today, sources said. There have been no reports of any casualties or damage to the plant so far.

With the international energy giant, Enron Corporation, facing bankruptcy, Indian financial institutions have become concerned about the Rs. 6,204 crores exposure they have in the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company (DPC) in Maharashtra.

In a major effort at dealing with the financial crisis, the Tamil Nadu Government today announced an increase in bus fares and power tariff, besides pruning the food subsidy, to put its economy and fiscal health back on track.

Today Afghanistan!
Tomorrow--the world?

A US helicopter hovered
over a nuclear power plant near
Chennai for two hours. Despite the
9-11 precedent, the helicopter
was not shot down.

The sixth triennial national conference of the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) drew to a close here this evening with a change of guard in its ranks and the new leadership immediately announcing an intensification of the ongoing struggle against communalism and globalisation.

The former Prime Minister, Mr. V.P. Singh, today told the Justice Liberhan Commission that the Union Home Minister, Mr. L.K. Advani, undertook the `rath yatra' in 1990 to counter the Mandal Commission's report as the BJP was apprehensive that it might lose the middle class if the party supported the report.

A District Collector's decision to revoke the Scheduled Caste status granted to a student who `re-converted' to Hinduism has been upheld by the Madras High Court.

Human rights fora and Dalit activists have started exerting pressure on the Tamil Nadu Government to initiate action for the conduct of `free and fair' elections in the reserved village panchayats of Papparapatti, Keeripatti and Nattarmangalam in Madurai district

Members of the CPI (M) and its friendly parties staged a demonstration here today demanding withdrawal of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance.