The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 02, 2002

Tatas, Reliance bid for VSNL
THE Government has received bids from the Tatas and the Reliance group for 25 per cent equity stake in Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), which has been slated for disinvestment this fiscal. According to sources, the consortium led by Sterling ... More

No dividends in the near-term -- Bharti offers investors value appreciation
THE Bharti group thinks differently when it comes to rewarding its investors. It is not really in favour of providing returns on investments by way of dividend income, which most retail investors would wish for. Rather, the Bharti group feels ... More

BPL Mobile posts higher 9-month operating profit
BPL Mobile has improved its operating profit by 72 per cent for the first nine months of the current financial year. A company release said here the operating profit for the first nine months was Rs 240 crore. The gross revenues improved by ... More

Bharti Teletech plans SMS-enabled phones
TELECOM equipment major, Bharti Teletech, plans to launch phones that can send and receive e-mails and short messaging service (SMS). According to Mr V.J. Prakash, CEO, Bharti Teletech, the company is currently working with 3-4 international ... More

Port and access charges -- BSNL asks operators to cough up dues
CELLULAR operators and basic private telephony operators have been asked to pay over Rs 25 crore to BSNL as arrears in port and access charges. BSNL, having spotted a technical advantage in its favour, had for the last few weeks been issuing ... More

Private cell operators slash rates
MUMBAI: Both Orange and BPL Mobile, private cellular operators in Mumbai circle, reduced tariffs on their pre-paid card to match that of the latest entrant, Trump, the pre-paid card from State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam ... More

POLICY

Cyber criminals face fine up to Rs 1 crore
THE Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules framed thereunder provide for several types of penalties for cyberspace crimes. According to an official release, under Section 43 of chapter IX of the Act, whoever without the permission of ... More

HARDWARE

Taiwan wooing India Inc with hardware tech
THE National Association for Software and Services Company (Nasscom) has identified the emerging areas of chip design, embedded software, multimedia and telecom software, for co-operation between India and Taiwan. Addressing the Taiwanese ... More

SOFTWARE

Nucleus hopeful of revenue targets
CHENNAI: The New Delhi-based Nucleus Software Exports on Thursday said that it was on track to achieving its target of Rs 70 crore revenue for the year ending March 2002. Addressing presspersons, the Managing Director of Nucleus ... More

Shareholders okay Tele Data pref issue
CHENNAI: The Chennai-based Tele Data Informatics Ltd has obtained shareholder approval for its proposed issue of 11.35 lakh equity shares of Rs 10 each at a premium of Re 1 per share on a preferential basis to Net Tracking Solutions, Inc, ... More

Joseph Kennedy joins i-flex Board
MUMBAI: i-flex Solutions Ltd has appointed Mr Joseph P. Kennedy II on its Board of Directors. Mr Kennedy, a former US Congressman and House banking committee member and sub-committee chairman, currently serves as the Chairman and ... More

INTERNET

SEZ site launched
NEW DELHI: The Department of Commerce has launched an independent Web site (http://sezindia.nic.in), which gives detailed information on the policy and procedure and other related information on special economic zones (SEZs). Earlier, ... More

IT TRAINING

Arena plans more animation centres
ARENA Multimedia, the multimedia education wing of Aptech Training Ltd, has outlined plans to augment the number of Arena Animation Academy (AAA) centres across the country and in select nations abroad from the present 15 to 50 by August this ... More

ISPS

`Lift barriers on Internet telephony'
NEW DELHI: THE Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) and Internet Service Providers Association (ISPAI) have opposed the move for creating a separate category of `Internet Telephony Service Provider'. The two ... More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES

E-bill payment service from DoP
THE Department of Posts has launched an electronic bill payment service, `eBillPost', which will enable the public to pay various bills at post-offices. In the first phase of this project, over 400 post offices in four metros will offer ... More

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