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Thursday, 30 December 2004, 2000
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TOP STORIES
UN
seeks 130 m dollars
for international relief
Panic broke out in the Andaman islands and the
southern states when a fresh tsunami alert went out from the government. The
warning was later softened down. Meanwhile, the US is asking international
donors for 130 million dollars for immediate relief efforts
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Skies
open up, private
airlines can fly abroad
Sahara and Jet are the two companies that will immediately
benefit from India's just announced open-skies policy. They plan flights to
Bangkok and Singapore
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Indian Express
Can CNN, BBC get away with this corpse show in ‘sensitive’ Manhattan?
After 9/11 they chanted privacy, sensitivity, but have turned the Asian disaster
into an open season to show bodies of men, women, children. By ASHOK MALIK
Outlook
Charting a new course for India's army
With a new army chief set to take over, 2005 promises to be a year of significant change for India's military. A new counter-terrorism doctrine has already been adopted and, taking into consideration geopolitical concerns, plans to modernize India's military technology on the basis of speed and precision are in the works. It has not gone unnoticed, however, that these plans are similar to Washington's military-think.
By RAMTANU MAITRA
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Pioneer
Jinnah in memory
Qaid-e-Azam Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru will always be remembered, though for different reasons. Jinnah is the only leader who single-handedly created a new country for Muslims. No wonder, Beverley Nichols, a distinguished British journalist, wrote about him: "The most important man in Asia is 67, tall, thin and elegant, with a monocle on a grey silk cord, and a stiff white collar which he wears in the hottest
weather".
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The Hindu
Not a reluctant reformer
P.V. Narasimha Rao provided the back end support from for the reform process.
By C RANGARAJAN
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Indian Express
It’s not
Laloo, stupid
The Congress should raise a statue in honour of the cameraman who taped Laloo Prasad Yadav distributing largesse, thereby invoking the Election Commission's wrath.
By T V R SHENOY
OPINION
 Tsunami:
Lost worlds (Pioneer)
Subsidies
and the poor (Hindu)
Talks:
One-sided moves (Pioneer)
Beyond
Harry Potter (Hindu)
Kashmir
conference in Kathmandu
(Pioneer)
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