The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 16, 2002

DoT to restate case for tax rebates to MTNL, BSNL
Being amongst the highest taxpayers, both BSNL and MTNL are entitled to refunds worth close to Rs 4,000 crore in case their demand for being conferred the infrastructure status is granted. More

Idea, BPL revive merger talks
LAST-DITCH efforts are on to salvage the proposed merger involving BPL and Idea Cellular, seen as the country's biggest telecom alliance. Both players are in crucial talks which could lead to a new deal in the next couple of weeks. Sources ... More

BPL-Sabeer Bhatia tie-up on voice messaging
BPL Mobile, a leading mobile service provider and Navinmail, a creation of Mr Sabeer Bhatia, who pioneered free Web-based e-mail, have joined hands to introduce two new products in India using the voice-messaging platform. The products `miVoice ... More

Escotel unveils Onam offer
KOCHI: Escotel on Thursday announced a new offer whereby customers would be entitled to half airtime rate of Rs 1.50 per minute during the Onam season. As per the offer, every day from the third chargeable incoming and outgoing call ... More

SOFTWARE

Pramati bullish on expansion
PRAMATI Technologies, a global provider of enterprise Java middleware technology and tools, has announced its expansion plans of increasing and reaching out to about 1,000 channel partners. The company has so for forayed into more than 20 ... More

IT TRAINING

IIIT-H in parleys with IBM, Microsoft
THE industry-driven International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Hyderabad is in parleys with IBM and Microsoft to explore the possibility of further leveraging their association with the institute, according to the Secretary, ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Rs 240-cr e-governance initiative — Community info centres for N-E, Sikkim set to take off
Under this project, which will entail investments of over Rs 240 crore, the blocks would be linked through VSATs, and the CICs will act as an interface between the citizens and institutions of Government. More

TRENDS

Can euro gains offset dollar dents for IT exporters?
RECENT trends in exchange rate fluctuations indicate that software exporters with more revenues in the euro denomination would be better off than those with a major chunk of revenues in US dollars. On May 2, this year, the dollar traded at Rs ... More

Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
Subscribe to: Business Line

Top Stories
What the IIMs have done

Felling of trees made an offence in AP

Idea, BPL revive merger talks

Agri-business: Not India's business

GoM grapples with problem of PSU dues

Indian ports record 10 pc growth in traffic

Overcoming `subtle resistance'

In Depth
Gender Justice

Simple Economics

Small Investor

Looking back
Aug. 4-Aug. 10
BSNL set for nationwide GSM services launch

Aptech Training to focus on ITES, BPO sectors

Top cos see staff cost increasing

Hyderabad, Kochi take pole position as ITES destinations

PackMate takes the visually impaired to cyber world

Tax charges on top three cos higher

Debtor days down for software cos — No indicator of recovery, say analysts

`Disk storage market grew 64 pc in 2001'