EXPRESSINDIA.COM The Indian Express Group _________________________________________________________________ The Indian Express daily newsletter Edition of Saturday, December 18, 2004 _________________________________________________________________ INDIAN EXPRESS ********************* TODAY'S TOP STORIES ******************* Govt plans to sell Oil India to IOC The government is once again banking on the oil sector to bail itself out of the fiscal deficit: It has initiated the acquisition of exploration firm Oil India Ltd by Indian Oil Corp to raise more than Rs 7,500 crore. The attempt is to rein in the fiscal deficit at 4.4 per cent, which analysts say could cross 5 per cent of the gross domestic product without extra budgetary measures. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61086 _______________________________________________________________ Phased polls in 3 states to begin on Feb 3 Ending weeks of speculation and setting in motion a fresh round of political activity, the Election Commission announced here today that Assembly polls in Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana would be conducted in three phases from February 3, 2005. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61089 _______________________________________________________________ As BJP looks back in hope, Govindacharya looms over the party BJP chief L.K. Advani�s offhand remark that there was nothing to bar the return of Govindacharya to the BJP has let loose a storm in the party, with some unnerved and others gleeful at the prospect, well placed sources indicated here today. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61090 _______________________________________________________________ Bilkis case: Forensic team can�t reach definite conclusion on skeletons The six-member forensic team of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences which worked for eight months on the skeletal remains of the relatives of the Gujarat riot survivor Bilkis Yaqoob Rasool could not draw any ��specific conclusion except the gender of the bodies.�� http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61091 _______________________________________________________________ Story of a suicide is RNG Picture of the Year What Bharat told his parents we will never know. But the photo taken by Shailendra Pandey of him, breaking the news of his sister�s suicide to them even as her body hanged from the ceiling before his eyes, needs no explanation. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61092 _______________________________________________________________ Why sex is more than a bad word in Kerala Rarely has the opinion industry here spent so much time and space on sleaze, at places high and low. And things reached a kind of threshold this week, when even Chief Minister Oommen Chandy was reduced to pleading bitterly that the woman with whom he shared a berth on a night train �in a 2-AC compartment�was his own wife, really. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61093 _______________________________________________________________ /------------------------ advertisement ------------------------ No 1 Indian Matrimonials - 550,000+ members, 150,000+ photo profiles, 16,000+ successful matches! 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