The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 23, 2004

POLITICS
Stock taking!
Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee lighting a lamp to inaugurate BJP's national executive meeting at Powai in Mumbai. Also seen in the picture are Mr L.K. Advani, the BJP Maharashtra leader, Mr Gopinath Munde, and Mr Venkaiah Naidu. ... More

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT
SBI gesture to old-age home in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: State Bank of India has donated Rs 4.25 lakh to an old-age home at Nagole in Hyderabad to purchase an ambulance. The Chief General Manager, Mr S.K. Bhattacharya at the launch at MEANS (Medical Educational and Nature ... More

PEOPLE
Old memories
Mr B.L. Chawla, father of late astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died in the space shuttle Columbia disaster, is sitting behind her suit displayed at the US Conference on Space Science, Applications and Commerce at Hotel Ashoka in Bangalore. ... More

BOOKS
Are jungles falling prey to development?
"As boys, when we read Jim Corbett's stories, we had visions of the hills around Pati with plentiful goral, the forests around Devidhura populated by sambar, with antlers as big as the branch of an oak tree, and the Sharda full of big mahseer. The ye ars have changed this wildlife abundance. Instead, everywhere, we saw evidence only of human abundance." More

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