Monday, 10 January 2005, 1700 hrs

TOP STORIES
Supreme Court grants
bail to Kanchi seer
The court granted bail to Sri Jayendra Saraswati in the Sankararaman murder case. He had been arrested two months ago. The court asked the seer to furnish a bond and not visit the Kanchi mutt


BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Ministers' group wants 
distress levy kept alive
The surcharge, imposed in 2001 on tobacco products and luxury goods such as cars, is likely to be extended to more items for another year so that the government is able to mop up enough money to fund relief work in tsunami-hit areas.
 

Indian Express
Ambani struggle: Camouflages flare up
The battle between the Ambani brothers has moved from thevicious and entertaining to the bizarre. December 28, the birth anniversary of the Reliance group patriarch Dhirubhai Ambani, was a day when the entire family got together to pray, but it did not settle the bitter public war between his two sons. SUCHETA DALAL traces the tussle 

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Financial Express
Focus on accelerating growth
If one thing is certain about the year ahead and perhaps the next several years too, it is that financial markets will be subject to greater, perhaps much greater, volatility than they have been in the recent past. By SAUMITRA CHAUDHARY

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Outlook
A people still at sea

Money, housing, relief material, tools of trade...governments and civil society pitch in to rehabilitate the tsunami-hit fisherman. But can they give him back life as he knew it, asks S ANAND

 

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Ae mere watan (Tribune)
Jakarta: Matter of relief (Tribune)
Allies in Lalooland (Tribune)
Economists on growth pangs (Pioneer)
Sex and sensibility (Pioneer)