EXPRESSINDIA.COM The Indian Express Group _________________________________________________________________ The Indian Express daily newsletter Edition of Monday, October 18, 2004 _________________________________________________________________ INDIAN EXPRESS ********************* TODAY'S TOP STORIES ******************* Top job fight spoils Cong, NCP party With the issue of who should be Maharashtra�s next Chief Minister cutting short celebrations in the Congress and NCP camps, party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Sharad Pawar today got down to business to try and end the deadlock. Hours after Pawar emerged from a meeting with Sonia Gandhi, key aides Ahmed Patel and Praful Patel returned to 10, Janpath for another meeting with the Congress president. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57174 _______________________________________________________________ I was used as a front to send money out of India, claims Amarinder son�s friend In what could spell fresh trouble for Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, long-time family friend and business partner of his son Raninder, Leonard A Freeke, today told <i>The Indian Express </i>that he was used as a ��front�� to send large sums of money out of India on ��Raninder�s instructions��. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57176 _______________________________________________________________ Plot sizes were increased on govt order: probe Preliminary findings of the probe into allotment of prime plots in New Delhi at reduced rates by the NDA government to RSS affiliates show that in some cases the size of the allotted land was substantially increased on government orders. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57177 _______________________________________________________________ GE threatens to walk away from Dabhol talks table US-based GE, a majority shareholder of Dabhol Power Company, has threatened to leave the negotiating table along with Bechtel and seek legal recourse for their claims of $ 12 bn from India. ��The time is approaching when one or both companies will decide that the upside of pursuing the claims in arbitration far outweighs the value of a settlement. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57175 _______________________________________________________________ /------------------------ advertisement ------------------------ No 1 Indian Matrimonials - 550,000+ members, 150,000+ photo profiles, 16,000+ successful matches! 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I told the truth http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57139 The triangular balance of people�s power http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57140 Uneasy access http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57141 More in Analysis at http://www.indianexpress.com/analysis.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* EDITS ********************* Maha trends http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57133 Buck stops with UPA http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57134 More in Edits at http://www.indianexpress.com/edits&columns.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* COLUMNS ********************* Devi is our Wonderwoman http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57135 The truth about Sonia http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57137 Message in the age of nuance http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57136 More in Columns at http://www.indianexpress.com/edits&columns.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* SPORT ********************* Final targets: 210 runs, 10 wickets http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57154 Been there guys say India should do it http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57155 Surface tension despite the placid pitch http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57161 More in Sport at http://www.indianexpress.com/sport.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* NATIONAL NETWORK ********************* EC under UPA pressure: Mulayam http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57182 Tibet to benefit if it stays with China: Dalai http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57185 CM race improves stock of 19 Independents http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57178 More in National Network at http://www.indianexpress.com/national_network.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* INTERNATIONAL ********************* US planes pound Falluja http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57164 Russian military base in Dushanbe http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57167 BBC ex-DG: British Govt �tried to kill� Gilligan http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57169 More in International at http://www.indianexpress.com/international.html _______________________________________________________________ ********************* BUSINESS ********************* New turf, but at home http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57144 It�s a lose-lose situation for ordinary investors http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57143 Confessions of a recent Linux convert http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=57149 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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