Saturday, 25 December 2004, 2000 hrs

TOP STORIES
Tsunami claims over 10,000 lives
Huge seismic sea waves, triggered by a massive undersea earthquake off Sumatra in Indonesia, left over 10,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless in India, Sri Lanka and South-East Asia on Sunday


BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Stocks growing strong, some
rise fivefold during the year
Thanks to the across-the-board rally in stock prices, there are at least 25 frequently traded stocks whose investment portfolio may be higher, in value, than their market capitalisation

 

The Hindu
Guaranteeing employment
If this Government still has eyes to see and ears to hear the poor, it must be bolder with a much larger employment programme. By AMIT BHADURI


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India Together
PC or PC? Who sets the policy?
The Planning Commission is urging higher Central funding of large irrigation projects, but the Finance Minister promised more decentralised water management. What's going on? Meanwhile, HIMANSHU UPADHYAYA thumbs through a CAG report and finds that these projects don't lack money - what they really need is accountability.


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Asia Times
The year India learned to fly
The year 2004 saw the coming of age of India's civil aviation sector. As the country prospered, more private airlines joined the fray to take in the new passengers, budget airlines took wing, and even the two flag carriers stirred to life in response to the sudden competition. The result: fare wars that enabled more Indians to take to the skies than ever before. 


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Pioneer
The ideology of numbers
Effective "coalition" must result in effective power-sharing and distribution of assets. You cannot have the same party at the Centre and in the states without there being a confrontation at some stage. No coalition in the past has ever been threatened by numbers. It has survived or perished on the principle of power-sharing or the lack of it, says ARUN NEHRU

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