Thursday, 6 January 2005, 1400 hrs

TOP STORIES
Aftershocks continue to rock islands, cross 100 mark
Despite official reassurances, Andaman and Nicobar continue to be rocked by aftershocks of varying degrees of intensity. In Tamil Nadu, the tsunami has broken the back of the fishing community


BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Roadmap for banking
reforms soon: FM
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the government would shortly set up a regulator for the pension sector and announce a roadmap for banking reforms, which includes allowing 74 per cent FDI in private banks

 

Hindustan Times
Mani, who’d rather walk 
VIR SANGHVI remembers JN ‘Mani’ Dixit — a man who was frighteningly articulate and immensely knowledgeable.


* * * 

India Together
Relief critical to stem school dropouts 
With tens of thousands still displaced over a week since the tsunami disaster, some schools are yet to reopen and others are seeing low attendance. And as children wait anxiously in TN relief camps, more awe-inspiring stories are emerging. KRITHIKA RAMALINGAM reports

* * * 

Asia Times
Hail the new textile maharaja
Outsourcing in information technology could soon be passe for India. With the textile and garment quota removed, India is set to emerge as the most favored destination for textile outsourcing as heavyweights like Wal-Mart and Carrefour queue up to buy their supplies from Indian manufacturers. By SIDDHARTH SRIVASTAVA

* * * 

Tribune
More phones at cheaper rates
The Communications and IT Ministry and the private industry are now convinced that the total telephone subscriptions can rise from the October 2004 level of 90 million to 250 million by 2007 with 60 million of it in the rural areas against 13 million now. Infrastructure sharing key to rural connectivity, says RAJENDRA PRABHU

* * * 

Pioneer
An angry earth wobbles
Had it not been for the devastating Boxing Day tsunami that hit southern Asia, engulfing parts of India in its wake, 2004 might have passed off as a relatively uneventful year. But God willed otherwise and wrote yet another devastation into India's karma in the final days of the year that just went by. By CHANDAN MITRA

TOP PICKS

OPINION


Economy on the move (Tribune)
Jamming jails (Tribune)
Allies in Lalooland (Tribune)
Economists on growth pangs (Pioneer)
Sex and sensibility (Pioneer)