The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, December 08, 2002

NIIT: Over-priced
EXISTING investors in NIIT can reduce their exposures in the stock. After the recent rally, the stock appears over-priced relative to the potential for appreciation in future. The bad news at NIIT almost seems to be over with the cleaning up ... More

Market disconnect
Sterlite Optical: Hold
Finolex Cables: Hold
Aksh Optifibre: Sell on rise
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E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

ICICIdirect.com kicks off customer education drive
ICICIdirect.com, the online trading service of the company, has launched a customer education drive that will cover major cities and towns across the country over the next two months. The customer empowerment drive, which kicked off a couple ... More

INTERVIEW

`Offshore outsourcing becoming mainstream activity' — Mr Kiran Karnik, Nasscom Chairman
Nasscom has been a highly visible face for the Indian software industry. Over the years, it has worked to get a better policy framework for the industry from the government. It has also come up with surveys that point to latent IT potential in ... More

BROADBAND

Telecom cables: The optical illusion
FOR the producers of optical fibre (OF) and optical fibre cables (OFCs), the past two years have been a vicious coil of huge excess capacities, built both by manufacturers and telecom players who put up cable networks; demand for ... More

Coiled in low demand
THE last 18 months were turbulent for the optical fibre/optical fibre cable manufacturers world over. Not surprising, as a sudden slump in demand coincided with a sharp jump in capacities despite the presence of a small number of players of ... More

What's OFC
AN optical fibre is made of pure glass which is the transmission medium over which light travels. OFCs are made from the fibre and used on long-haul, under-sea and metro networks. OFCs are of two types: Single- and multi-mode. Single-mode, in ... More

Jelly-filled telecom cables: Getting buried?
DRIVE around any city or town today, coils of multi-coloured optical fibre cables would catch your eye. Seldom does one see the black sheathed jelly-filled telecom cables (JFTC) rolled around big drums — a common sight even as late as two ... More

ISPS

Satyam Info set to hike authorised capital
SATYAM Infoway Ltd, the largest subsidiary of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, is set to increase the authorised share capital of the company from Rs 35 crore divided into equity shares of Rs 10 each to Rs 37.5 crore, which is aimed at offering ... More

E-GOVERNANCE

Govt plans Rs 40,000-cr e-governance project
THE Centre has planned an ambitious Rs 40,000 crore e-governance project to be implemented during the Tenth Plan across the country for all business/citizen-government interfaces. Dr Pradipto Ghosh, Additional Secretary to the Prime Minister, ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL

VCs prefer India to China
INDIA can be proud of the fact that venture capitalists are betting their smart money in India than in China, pointing to the potentials of this source in boosting foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Official sources told Business ... More

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