EXPRESSINDIA.COM The Indian Express Group _________________________________________________________________ The Indian Express daily newsletter Edition of Tuesday, December 21, 2004 _________________________________________________________________ INDIAN EXPRESS ******************* TODAY'S TOP STORIES ******************* Laloo in trouble, EC files FIR Railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav was in trouble today when an FIR was filed against him on the charge of attempting to bribe voters ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar. His party RJD was threatened with derecognition by the Election Commission over his distribution of money to people near Patna last Saturday. Taking a tough stand, the Commission directed the Railway board not to run special trains or divert any trains for the December 23 RJD rally in Patna. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61241 _______________________________________________________________ Ibrahimpur speaks for Bihar: We want PDS, not Laloo�s money Like most of Bihar, Ibrahimpur too is in a state of collapse. It rarely has electricity, none of the three schools here have mid-day meals. For that matter, even teachers here are a rarity. And the public distribution system simply doesn�t exist. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61242 _______________________________________________________________ Baazee case: Govt stares at larger picture as eBay CEO intervenes The arrest of Baazee.com CEO Avnish Bajaj in the MMS scandal involving two Delhi school students now has the Government giving thought to the larger but crucial question: Can top executives of MNCs be held liable for punitive action if their subordinates make a mistake? http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61253 _______________________________________________________________ Key Anil man quits, crucial RIL board meeting next week Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, a key member of the Anil Ambani camp, resigned as treasurer of Reliance Industries today. Sources close to Anil Ambani confirmed that Jhunjhunwala had put in his papers after 11 years in the Reliance group. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61248 _______________________________________________________________ For Pak sisters, surprise match had bigger surprise Sona and Soni, sisters from Pakistan, will remember this Gujarat visit forever. For the right reasons too. Just hours before they were to board the train to Mumbai, they came across a precious family link, snapped since Partition�their uncle. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61268 _______________________________________________________________ Reforming babus, Phase I is ready to roll, awaits PM nod The first phase of civil service reforms has been detailed in a slick power-point presentation, likely to be viewed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the end of the week. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61254 _______________________________________________________________ For TV comrades, purge starts with COO In CPM�s Malayalam TV channel, Kairali, it�s another edition of the cat-and-mouse game between the management and party acolytes. In the thick of it all is V Krishna Kumar, Kairali�s Chief Operating Officer, who admits he has often rubbed the party apparatchiks within the channel the wrong way. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61261 _______________________________________________________________ China roadmap is India wake-up call China�s massive programme to build roads all along the border in Tibet and into the sub-continent has finally woken up India and Bhutan. Over the last decade, China nearly doubled the length of its road transport network in Tibet to nearly 40,000 km. http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=61255 _______________________________________________________________ /------------------------ advertisement ------------------------ No 1 Indian Matrimonials - 550,000+ members, 150,000+ photo profiles, 16,000+ successful matches! 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