EXPRESSINDIA.COM The Indian Express Group _________________________________________________________________ The Indian Express daily newsletter Edition of Tuesday, September 14, 2004 _________________________________________________________________ INDIAN EXPRESS ********************* TODAY'S TOP STORIES ******************* Panel of �outsiders� to help pick top bureaucrats Winds of reforms are set to sweep across one of the most closely guarded territories in the country�the bureaucracy. In a radical move, the Government has decided to allow �outsiders�, including a management guru, into the secretive zone of appointments of bureaucrats�and examine their annual confidential reports. By next month a three-member panel of experts will be in place to assist the Appointments Committee of Cabinet in picking Secretaries, Additional Secretaries and Joint Secretaries. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55074 _______________________________________________________________ One night Tilak Raj will never forget Nearly 20 days had passed and the routine of captivity had become almost bearable when Tilak Raj saw Vishal. Vishal demanded a bicycle. Startled, Tilak Raj opened his eyes. It was night and he was still trapped in a tiny room, surrounded by six fellow-hostages. Vishal, his nine-year-old son, was thousands of kilometres away in their little house in Una where Pramila, Tilak Raj�s wife, was suffering from hypertension. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55075 _______________________________________________________________ A child dead & her family starving, woman gives up baby for Rs 6,000 Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav may be taking his own time to ferry 5,000 quintals of grain collected by the Congress for scarcity-hit Bihar but 40 km from Patna, hunger has forced a woman to ��sell�� her two-month-old baby for Rs 6,000. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55076 _______________________________________________________________ Muslim law board to check rise in numbers, up literacy With the latest Census figures indicating a rising growth rate among Muslims, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board said today that it was ready to discuss promotion of family planning and literacy in the community. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55077 _______________________________________________________________ First PM, now Patil aborts J-K trip Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who was to go on a three-day trip to Jammu and Kashmir on September 24, has decided to call it off after the Prime Minister�s visit to the state was cancelled due to by-elections. It was apparently felt that without the PM�s visit preceding his, Patil was unlikely to break any fresh ground. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55079 _______________________________________________________________ How a pond for Modi became a black hole for this Gujarat farmer Natwarsingh Chavda, a farmer from Rangpur village in Gujarat�s Gandhinagar, is an angry man. Over two months ago, government officials dug up a pond on his farm for CM Narendra Modi to launch a water conservation scheme on July 8. They promised Chavda that they would fill it up after the function. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55080 _______________________________________________________________ Left cools down after Sonia meeting An hour-long meeting with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi appears to have suddenly lowered temperatures in the Left camp. Angry outbursts by former Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu and his successor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee during the weekend had given the impression that a showdown between the biggest Left party and the UPA leadership was imminent. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55078 _______________________________________________________________ /------------------------ advertisement ------------------------ No 1 Indian Matrimonials - 550,000+ members, 150,000+ photo profiles, 16,000+ successful matches! 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There�s Amar Singh�s house http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55031 More in Columns at http://www.indianexpress.com/edits&columns.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* SPORT ********************* Federer is Four for Four in major finals http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55032 Learning to live without Murali http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55052 Telecast rights issue to take �Z� turn today http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55055 More in Sport at http://www.indianexpress.com/sport.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* NATIONAL NETWORK ********************* India, Israel to hold joint air exercise in �05 http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55061 Chennai flashpoint to end Vaiko <i>yatra</i> http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55070 Riot-hit demand fresh probe; notices issued http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55056 More in National Network at http://www.indianexpress.com/national_network.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* INTERNATIONAL ********************* US hits �Zarqawi� meet, kills 16 http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55046 Bush missed N Korea for Iraq, says Kerry http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55047 Putin for overhaul of state to fight terror http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55049 More in International at http://www.indianexpress.com/international.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* BUSINESS ********************* Govt for merger of big banks http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55039 India puts pipeline talks on slow burner http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55040 Watch out India! China is the latest hotbed of world�s R&D http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=55044 More in Business at http://www.indianexpress.com/business.html _______________________________________________________________ **************************************************************************************** Visit us at http://www.expressindia.com for indepth coverage of news from around India, updated round the clock. 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