Lessons For India From Current Crisis Over Iraq, LT Sippy
India and Indians have a lot to deliberate upon over present Iraq crisis. We have traditionally ignored major crisis both onshore and off shore. It is high time we came out of our traditional slumber and indulged in penetrative and most rational analysis such as the Iraq crisis in order to understand our weaknesses and strengths and plan for the future from a national interest. Iraq crisis has many a lesson for us- http://www.indiacause.com/OL_030317.htm

Indian singers is up in arms against the Indian Government over Pakistan, BBC
Indian musicians say they are getting the cold shoulder from Islamabad, while Delhi is too nice to their Pakistani counterparts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2845187.stm

Porn links to Indian Govt. websites, BBC
An Indian official is calling for an enquiry into how government websites in the north-eastern state of Nagaland came to have links to pornographic websites. The official, Kegunzulo Medhikhru, said he suspected some civil servants could have been involved, as the sites were too well protected from outside interference. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2864399.stm

The dark side of India's software sector, ATimes
The numbers for the Indian IT software and services sector once again look good, with the country's premier industry body predicting continued healthy growth. But on closer examination, there is cause for more than passing concern. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EC20Df03.html

Saddam may use chemical weapons on his own people, Yahoo
Iraqi leader may use chemical weapons on his own people and blame the attacks on coalition forces as part of a propaganda war. Iraqi soldiers dressed in replica uniforms of British and American forces might be ordered to burn Iraqi oil reserves and attack other installations, in raids to be videotaped and shown to supporters in Arab states.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=506&u=/ap/20030319/ap_wo_en_ge/eu_
gen_britain_iraq_propaganda_1&printer=1

Saddam’s Bomb, Rediff
'If the Hindis (Indians) can do it, why can't we?' he asked those at the table. He had already secretly spent millions on his bomb project and had precious little to show for it. And yet here was starving India, an inferior Third World country that had dragged its bomb to the test site on the back of an ox cart, banging on the doors of the exclusive nuclear club.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/mar/19spec1.htm

New US theory of war, BBC
In the military world, size does indeed matter. It is not so much the numbers of troops or tanks that counts. It is the way units and weapons systems are put together to provide what the military call "combat power". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2863299.stm

Saddam likely to go underground, WashTimes
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will move to underground Baghdad once any bombing starts, beginning a manhunt that could end with one precision-guided munition or the betrayal of his palace guard, American officials say.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030319-8724488.htm

WAR COSTS ‘AD' UP, NYPost
The three major broadcast networks and three major news channels could lose as much as $200 million in ad revenue in the first five days of the war, industry experts predict. The three main cable news channels - CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC - could lose as much as $10 million on the first day and an average of $5 million to $6 million daily for an additional four days of ad-free coverage
http://nypost.com/business/71164.htm

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