Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Sunday, November 17, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Sunday, November 17, 2002 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY INVESTMENTS Small is bountiful GIVEN a choice between buying shares of Hindustan Lever and Marico Industries, which one would you buy? If you picked Hindustan Lever, you made the wrong choice. If recent evidence from the stock market is anything to go by, the riches, it would ... More
Anomalies in the real world
Tamil Nadu Power Finance — Nothing electrifying
UTI Variable Investment Scheme: Unattractive
The new Sonata — Increased power
Money-back plans — Funds in times of need
Capital gains bonds to yield less
New Safari from Tata AWARDS & HONOURS Frontline reporter gets Natali award DR Asha Krishnakumar, Special Correspondent, Frontline, has won the prestigious 2002 Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism in the Asia-Pacific region for "excellence in reporting human rights, democracy and development". The prize, ... More
Nominations invited for earth care award ECONOMY Backlog of Bills before Parliament HEAVY backlog of important economic Bills and legislations marks the winter session of Parliament scheduled for November 18 with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government facing increasingly strident anti-reform pronouncement from within ... More
Bank credit up Rs 6,351 crore PSU PSU stocks — Bizarre are the ways of Govt ONE normally expects the owner of a company to take actions that seek to maximise the value of shareholders without in any way affecting the interests of other stakeholders. But if the owner is the Government of India, one can safely expect ... More PETROLEUM Oil PSUs may have to shell out Rs 2,500 cr to bridge tax gap THE Finance Ministry is planning to seek Rs 2,500 crore from public sector oil companies in the form of special dividend to help bridge the likely shortfall in tax revenues and disinvestments receipts, according to a top Finance Ministry ... More TAXATION How equity experts perceive Kelkar THE Kelkar Committee's recommendations on direct and indirect taxes have raised a hornet's nest, with the general consensus being that it will hit the salaried, middle class group the hardest. The proposal to phase out home loan interest ... More WATER MANAGEMENT Tata Steel signs MoU with Vivendi Water TATA Steel today announced that it has signed a MoU with Vivendi Water towards setting up a joint venture for providing a sustainable water service in Jamshedpur. The agreement was signed by Mr B. Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel and ... More EDUCATION AI joins hands with Kolkata biz school AIR INDIA has joined hands with the Kolkata-based Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM), the country's oldest business school, to set up a Centre of Excellence for Tourism & Travel Management Studies at the institute. ... More HCV/LCV/TRACTORS Over the hump, at last THE fortunes of the Rs 15,000 crore commercial vehicles industry are on the ascendant once again. After a terrible two years of negative growth, volumes are looking up this fiscal. The industry has clocked an impressive 31 per cent rise in ... More
Will it remain a cosy club?
Off the median
`Medium-term growth would be 5-6%' — Interview with Mr Ravi Kant, Executive Director (CVBU), Tata Engineering SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NRSA shelves data sale pact with BPL A THREE-YEAR pact between BPL Innovision and National Remote Sensing Agency for selling satellite data among corporate GIS users has become a non-starter. The Hyderabad-based NRSA, a Department of Space arm, that handles terrestrial data sales ... More
India to play major role in ocean, climate research SMALL SAVINGS EPF: Investors should have greater say in investment pattern CAPITAL protection and growth in income, in that order, should be the principles guiding any change in investment norms for employee provident funds (EPF). In addition, changes in investment norms must be part of comprehensive changes in the ... More WTO British envoy for radical agenda to open up trade in WTO talks CALLING for a new deal for the global economy that seeks to build a "virtuous circle of stability, growth and development," Sir Rob Young, British High Commissioner in India, has said that it was essential to resist protectionism and pursue a ... More EVENTS `Promote neem on global arena' NEEM may have been recognised by the Persians as the "free tree of India"; but much more needs to be done to promote it in the global arena, according to experts working on the subject. "While the world is familiar with the tea tree of ... More INCOME TAX Kelkar Commitee Recommendations — Enhancing taxpayer satisfaction IMPROVEMENT of taxpayer satisfaction has been given considerable importance by the task force headed by Dr Vijay Kelkar. To achieve this objective, the task force has recommended that quality service should be provided to the taxpayer, whom the ... More
Tax rebates removal, a breach of trust: Experts NATURAL CALAMITIES Rs 2,000-cr drought relief package THE Centre today approved a Rs 2,000-crore relief package for drought-affected States under the National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF), apart from allocation of five lakh tonnes (l.t) of additional foodgrains to Rajasthan and one lakh tonne to ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
Top Stories In Depth Gender Justice Simple Economics Small Investor Looking back Nov. 10-Nov. 16 Investment pattern of EPF monies in for change Trials on AIDS vaccine early next year 3 crore Indians are diabetic: WHO Business confidence at June level: NCAER CST phase-out from April 2004 Project investments flat in Sept quarter: Survey Minister says SCI sell-off could be delayed further |
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