Thursday, 13 January 2005, 2000 hrs

TOP STORIES
Seer inquiry footage: NHRC
issues notice to TN govt
Channels telecast a video showing the Kanchi seer's interrogation, but the National Human Rights Council is asking the government searching questions about the "selective leakage". The acharya's counsel has said the footage could be doctored


BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Protectionist press note
goes, JVs get simpler
Press Note 18 was a provision by which foreign companies entering into a joint venture with an Indian company needed to get a ‘‘no objection’’ from their Indian partner before they set up another JV with a new partner 

Indian Express
How not to respond to a tsunami 
December 26 saw waves over 40 metres high, well over the halfway mark of the 73-metre Qutub Minar. Is anyone proposing a Qutub-sized wall on India’s coasts? Running around like headless chickens is clearly not the way, says T.V.R. SHENOY 


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Times of India
The tsunami within
The world forgets. Sad, but tragically true. Yesterday's calamity gets transformed into today's stale news. It ceases to matter, rues SHOBHAA DE

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Deccan Herald
India-China military equations
The visit of General N C Vij, Chief of Army Staff, to China in December 2004, is one more step towards military diplomacy between New Delhi and Beijing. He is the second serving army chief to visit China, after the late General B C Joshi did so in 1994, writes B M CHENGAPPA 

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Asia Times
The Great Wall of shopping 
"Adore the world. Be after it. Be in it." Translation: Go shopping. In fact, "shop till you drop" is the mantra of today's Shanghai of glitzy malls, Ferraris, Armanis and stylish jackets for executives for $1,200 - more than their annual disposable income. No big deal. Welcome to the new China. By PEPE ESCOBAR

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Indian Express
In death zone, basic instincts worked 
K R Ramachandran, forest officer of the Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary at Kodaikarai, says that 8 to 10 minutes before the waves crashed into the sanctuary, all the guards standing in observation towers saw the same spectacle: Virtually every animal, dashed towards higher grounds and stood there.

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OPINION


College seats: merit vs money (DH)
Sugar price rise (Tribune)
Dual citizenship issues (Tribune)
Cheaper telecom tariff (The Hindu)
Kanchi case: Let court decide (Tribune)
Fake encounters