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The article reports on the boom in newspaper business in India with a boost in circulation and advertising revenue as more people from smaller cities join the middle class.

The article focuses on Orange County Register Communications Inc. which will start a one-month trial with Indian company Mindworks Global Media at the end of June 2008. Mindworks Global will take over copy-editing duties for some stories published in the Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper. Mindworks' Web site discloses that the company is based outside New Delhi and provides high quality editorial and design services to global media firms.

Looks at the stance taken by Maninderjit Singh Bitta, leader of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front on the impending war between India and Pakistan.

Focuses on the electronic shares trading in India, while relating to the growth of the Indian stock exchange. Information on foreign investment in India; Changes made at the Indian Securities and Exchange Board; Advantages of the changes.

Reports that India's upper house of Parliament has approved a bill to modernize the country's paper-based share-trading system with the formation of share depositories. Disadvantages of the paper-based system; Outlook for foreign investment in India.

The article reports on the arrest of David Headley, the suspect for the terror attacks in Mumbai, India in November 2008, in August 2009 by U.S. officials after giving deceptive answers about his travels aboard to an airport official. During the questioning, officials found no papers or documents relating to the business First World Immigration Service, which Headley claimed the company that he works for. Federal charges allege that Headley traveled to India and Pakistan to videotape targets.

The article reports that the central government in India will invest to bring the country up-to-date in response to public frustration about how long it takes to deliver services. Helping the government are India's technology companies. Satyam Computer Services Ltd. will develop a rail system for Hyderabad City. Tata Consultancy Services will computerize passport files and develop software for India's e-passports. HCL Technologies Ltd. will establish data digital storage centers to replace paper-based records.

The article focuses on "Musalman," a daily newspaper in India managed by Syed Arifullah. The oldest Urdu-language public press was established in 1927 by Arifullah's grandfather. The paper has approximately 23,000 subscribers and costs less than $10 annually. The Katibs or calligraphers translate the headlines and articles into Nastaliq making it the only handwritten Indian newspaper. The coverage of the publication includes international and local news, editorials and poetry.

The article reports on the dependence on paper checks to settle trades and meet margin calls in the Indian stock market. Accordingly, almost 80% of the retail stock market trade in India is established by checks. It adds that most Indians still trade through brokerage firms though online trading was launched in 1995.

The article reports on the efforts of Hewlett-Packard Co. (H-P) to find a way of marking new paper documents with a bar code that helps prevent forgeries. Information is presented on the aim of the Trusted Hardcopy project of H-P. According to company documents, the bar code is designed to act like a digital signature. Comments are made by Anjaneyulu Kuchibhotla, a department director at H-P Labs India, regarding the importance of the Asian-Pacific market to H-P.

Focuses on two Indian software entrepreneurs that have built rival companies and have become icons for India's modern economic order. Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Ltd., who is the richest Indian, on paper, in the world; N.R. Narayana Murthy, who founded Infosys Technologies Ltd.,; How the Information Age could help India; Percentage of software exports that the two companies account for.

Describes how many Americans experienced an attack of nuclear anxiety, which was triggered by watching footage of India's nuclear tests. How fear of nuclear war was once fundamental to the American psyche, the subject of novels, movies and even presidential-campaign advertisements; The recession of the fear with the fall of the Berlin Wall; How feeding the anxiety is a paper published in the `New England Journal of Medicine' by members of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Comments how, in India, bundling bills is routinely done by staples, rather than rubber bands. The wear and tear on the paper; The laments by K.D. Savkur, chief of currency management at the Reserve Bank of India, over the withdrawal of damaged bills from circulation; The relief that may be forthcoming.