The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, March 28, 2004

PHARMACEUTICALS
Diabetes segment may see price cut in drugs, insulin
DIABETES patients may have been pleasantly surprised on purchasing Gliimpid, an anti-diabetic medicine from Ranbaxy. In just about a month, Gliimpid has seen "an unprecedented drop" in its price from about Rs 53 for a strip of 10 tablets down ... More

TAXATION
`Slow tax dispute redressal process hurts India's image'
TAX disputes in India are settled slowly, a factor that hurts the country's image even if the overall system of tax assessment is well regarded the world over, said Mr Soli E. Dastur, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court. Delivering the keynote ... More

MANAGEMENT
More women must enter corporate world: Anil Ambani
MR Anil Ambani, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), has advocated that more women should enter the corporate world and more youth should join politics. Addressing the graduation ceremony of the Class of 2004 at ... More

TEXTILE MACHINERY
Southern textile processors shifting to wider width system
THE demand to shift to `garment' centric exports from commodity driven exports has necessitated the southern textile processors to change track and invest on higher capacity processing equipment, especially on wider width processing. The ... More

WTO
`Third World club must to get heard at WTO'
DEVELOPING countries should work together to be heard in the World Trade Organisation and strengthen regional trade co-operation to support themselves, according to Dr M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. Addressing ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
EOUs/SEZ units worried over rupee appreciation
ONE hundred per cent export-oriented units and units operating in the country's export enclaves, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs), already blunted by across-the-board duty cuts and falling rates of duty which neutralised the putative benefits ... More

Jurong, Parsons to develop Navi Mumbai SEZ project
JURONG Township and Parsons Brinckerhoff have been appointed as project management consultants to develop the Mumbai integrated Special Economic Zone (MiSEZ) to come up in Navi Mumbai. It is to be developed in three phases and the development ... More

PEOPLE
What's MBA to Dhirubhai?
GETTING an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania was no end for Mr Anil Ambani's business schooling. His father, Mr Dhirubhai Ambani, had a piece of advice for him when he returned from the US on December 13, ... More