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Announces the plan of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to bring in electronic system in the Indian stock market for stock trading purpose. Opinion of SEBI on the plan; Related views of brokers.

Presents news briefs from around the world, as reported on December 7, 1995. Discovery of tomb of a pharaoh's minister in Egypt; Emergence of cobra on the street of New Delhi; Report on the purity of New York City's air and waterways; More.

Presents information on India's chief election commissioner, T. N. Seshan, and his task of overseeing national elections. Amount of voters, and candidates in India; What the elections are effected by; Comments from Seshan.

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.

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.

States that India and Bangladesh signed a 30 year old agreement which allows them to share water from the Ganges River. Importance of water to rice paddies and paper mills in Bangladesh; Previous dispute over water between both countries; Effective date of agreement.

Reports that on January 27, 1997, confidential banking documents were handed over by the Swiss government to Indian authorities, which could shed light on the Bofors scandal. Description of the scandal; Sonia Gandhi's involvement in the scandal; Public's view of the scandal; Swiss authorities' findings in the scandal.

Recounts the author's trip to Daulatabad Fort in India. Author's meeting with an Indian family; Conversation with the patriarch of the family.

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.

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.

Focuses on the environmental and political effects of nuclear weapons testing in South Asia. Lingering hostilities between Pakistan and India that have prompted the tests; Aesthetic beauty of Kashmir, India; The 50 year-old territorial dispute; Warnings of Ahmed Shah Geelani, an Islamic political leader in Srinagar, India; Comparison of the military strengths of both nations. INSET: Kashmir's troubled history.

Relates the author's experience riding an elephant in Jaipur, India. The lurching motion of the elephant; How the author felt.

Discusses the 1999 elections in India, especially the prime ministerial election and the two main candidates, Sonia Gandia and Atal Behari Vajpayee.

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.

Focuses on the continuing conflict between Pakistan and India in Kashmir, the increasing boldness of Pakistani militants, and the political implications for both countries, as of late September, 1999.

Takes a look at amateur scientists in India who are attempting to dispel superstition and make science more accessible to the people.

Reports on the damage done to India's east coast by a cyclone which struck the Bay of Bengal.

Focuses on the Papal visit to India and the reactions of the residents.

Reports on the popularity and importance of the English language in India.

Discusses how India is using distance education to meet demand for higher education degrees. Opening of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, the first school to offer only distance education courses; Use of radio and television by the Indian universities; Popularity of open universities and growth of Internet connections; How foreign colleges and companies are beginning to market themselves in India.

Profiles Indian children's author Ruskin Bond. Views that he is the pioneer of modern children's literature in India; How his stories are always about discovery; Views on children's literature in India.

Reports on the violence targeted at the Kashmir police by the Indian armed forces and Islamic militants in the dispute over the ownership of Kashmir.

Reports on the protest by students and professors in New Delhi, India on the government's efforts to privatize higher education. Details on the Ambani-Birla report prepared for the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry; Status of college and university tuition in India.

Focuses on a summit between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf which will focus on controlling terrorism, redefining borders, and building confidence between the nations. View that because of vested interests in conflict in the Jammu and Kashmir state, it will be difficult to bring peace; Questions of the integrity of business interests in the region.

Examines the problems in the student loan program of the government of India. Income of Indian families at the poverty line; Tuition for an undergraduate education at state colleges and universities in the country; Interest rates charged by private financiers to student loans; Implications of the program for students.

Presents world news briefs relating to business as of April 24, 2002. Acquisition of the Mazola cooking oil and other brands from Unilever by Associated British Foods; Earnings losses at the Finnish paper and forestry group Stora Enso; Profits for Indian private oil refiner, Reliance Petroleum; Others.

Presents news on two universities in Asia as of May 2002. Effect of the clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India's western state of Gujarat on university life; Estimated number of people who died in the violent clash; Lawsuit filed by Hebrew University of Jerusalem against SST Ltd., the Israeli importer of Packard-Bell computers.

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.

Provides information on corruption incidents in Indian colleges and universities as of August 2002. Graft and corruption in the public lives of people in India; Range of fees for manipulating entrance test scores; Reservation systems at India's medical schools for nonresident Indians.

Presents an update on issues related to higher education as of October 25, 2002. Plagiarism charges against Balwant Singh Rajput, vice chancellor of Kumaun University of India; Decision of the University of Waikato to formally apologize to the Jewish population in New Zealand for its role in the work of a researcher with links to neo-Nazi groups in Germany.

Presents an article on a ritual among the people of India in which they give respect to paper. Benefits from their worship of paper; Consensus on culture; Book about medicine written 2000 years ago.

Reports on the decision of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge to abandon a management role in its Media Lab Asia in India because of differences with government officials over how the program should be run. Reason MIT established Media Lab Asia; Remarks from Media Lab executive director Walter R. Bender regarding the decision; Management style the Indian government wants for Media Lab Asia.

Focuses on the contrasting issues about Hindus and Muslims in India concerning nationalistic ethnic strife. Overview of the political conflict between India and Pakistan; Process through which people think of Muslims as the enemy; Criticisms against the marriage of Muslim to Hindu women.

Reports on the unsuccessful fight against English-language book piracy in India. Comparison of book prices in the U.S. and India; Challenges in enforcing anti-piracy laws; Reaction of U.S. to the failure of India to enforce international copyright accords.

Reports on the efforts of India to meet demand for higher education. Number of degree programs offered by Shri Rawatapura Sarkar International University; Development of private universities; Authority of the state legislatures to grant approval to anyone who wishes to establish a university in India.

Presents news on higher education from around the world as of October 15, 2004. Reason behind the denial of the visa application of Cuban scholars by the U.S. State Department; Imprisonment of Kim Samuel Dong Sung, a Canadian citizen of South Korean descent, for fraud in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Failure of the Indian institutions to show regard for the educational rights of disabled according to a survey conducted by the National Center for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People.

This article focuses on matters related to forgiveness. Asking forgiveness from God and from those who have been wronged is one thing--but forgiving those who have hurt people is the hardest thing in the world. Thousands carry resentment and bitterness for years--without realizing it. Like thousands of others, the author's father was called up in the 1939-45 conflict. Within weeks his regiment was sent to the Far East to halt the Japanese advance into Burma. The British army was driven back a thousand miles into India--arriving emaciated and diseased.

The article reports on the plan of the newspapers "Los Angeles Times" and "Recycler Classifieds" to outsource graphic design for the papers. Classified advertisements for the Orange County editions of the journals will be designed by graphic artists in India as a part of test run. The journal is trying to cut cost and increase revenue with this move. Chicago-based Affinity Express Inc.'s subsidiary in Pune, India is handling the work. Clothing retailer Lands End Inc., Ikon Office Solutions Inc. and Xerox Corp. are some of Affinity's customers using its Indian operation. The success of the test run will lead to replacement of advertisement production employees at the Times and Recycler.

The article reports that the 14,000-foot high Nathu Lal pass has began to handle local trading between Sikkim and West Bengal in India and Chinese-occupied Tibet. The agreement between China and India to reopen the portion of the Silk Road was part of a diplomatic bargain in which Beijing agreed to recognize the formal takeover of the Himalayan state of Sikkim south of the pass by India. Although the pass opening was welcomed by Calcutta traders, expressions of anxiety about the security problem were rampant in the Indian media.

This article reports that many university students in northern India have been angered by police reports that examinations were being graded by unqualified evaluators, some of whom were reportedly as young as 16. Police officials in the city of Agra said that officers acting on a tip had raided a house in August 2006 and found unqualified evaluators grading college exam papers. The officials said that during the raid, officers found 60,000 tests of students from Chaudhary Charan Singh University. The police said the university's registrar, B.L. Arya, had sent 80,000 tests to his son, R.P. Singh, in Agra, and told him to have them evaluated.

The article reports on the criticism by foreign academics of their countries' engineering programs. Academic and business leaders in China and India consistently say that despite rapid growth in enrollment and graduates, degree holders lack English-language and other business skills needed to work for multinational corporations. India can't take the lead in high-tech production jobs despite the quantity enrolled in higher education, for only the top-tier institutes educate for quality. Tu Shandong, vice president of the East China University of Science and Technology, in Shanghai, says an increasing number of employers are asking "embarrassing questions" about the quality of education.

The article reports that many presidents of American colleges are traveling to India to learn about the country's higher education system and try to create partnerships. Like American corporations that began coming to India more than a decade ago to tap the brain power of its millions of inexpensive, well-educated engineers, software writers, and medical technicians, American higher-education institutions are flocking to the country to recruit Indian students, set up academic and research ventures, and raise money.

The article discusses a paper by the American Council on Education entitled "Venturing Abroad: Delivering U.S. Degrees Through Overseas Branch Campuses and Programs." The paper offers guidance for colleges setting up programs overseas. It focuses on global hotspots like China, Singapore, and India, and discusses the things that colleges should consider before making a move abroad, such as accreditation and the environment in the host country. It can be purchased on the council's Web site and includes a list of institutions with programs abroad.

The article reports on the continuation of the infrastructure confusion in India. It says that the East Indian industrial boom is suffering its habitual affliction, babu-ism, that is paper jungles of obstruction and incompetence that block development. It says that Maharashtra, the most industrialized state in India and source of much of its snowballing exports to the U.S., is facing electrical brownouts, which have dogged the rest of India for decades.

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.

The article reports on an announcement by Prime Minister John Howard that Australia would sell uranium to India with a proposal that the two countries start negotiating a free trade agreement. The decision opposes the country's long-time policy of not selling uranium to countries that do not sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). With its 9 to 10 percent growth rate anticipated in 2007, India is rapidly becoming one of the most important trading partners of Australia.

The article reports on the rekindling of a family feud in India over one of the biggest industrial fortunes in the world between the two Ambani brothers after a compromise was arranged by their mother to divide the empire left by their founding father. The settlement of the empire built by the two brothers' father, Dhirubhai Ambani, who died in 2002, gave Mukesh control of the petrochemicals and oil-refining business with Anil taking over the mobile telecommunications and financial companies.

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 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.

Watercolor painting is an amateur's medium, beloved of the ''Sunday painter.'' And yet it is also among the hardest of artistic techniques to master, for unlike oil or even acrylic painting, where the paint stays where you put it, water-soluble paint is runny and difficult to control. Mistakes cannot easily be painted over, either, for the paper is absorbent and adding more paint often results in a watery mess. Painting with water-soluble paints is an ancient art, dating all the way back to the decoration of caves during Paleolithic times. It is also common to many world cultures, including China and India. But its modern Western history begins in the Renaissance, when it was used to beautify manuscripts as well as for botanical and wildlife illustration. During the 18th century, particularly in England, it was embraced by amateur artists and more established painters for wider cultural, scientific and even travel uses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]