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Account Speak


  • A quick tour of the Budget for the hassled

    Accountancy


  • ICAI's views given due weightage
  • Some good, some bad, some need a re-look
  • The Big Three on the Budget
  • A quick tour of the Budget for the hassled

    Advertising


  • Maxus bags Tata Sky account

    Agricultural Policy


  • Govt to release 1 lt more wheat

    Agriculture


  • INITIATIVES WELL SOWN

    Airlines


  • BA to add more flights to Bangalore
  • Airlines surprised at new tax proposal
  • AI commences jet fuel price risk hedging

    Alliances & Joint Ventures


  • French co Saft picks up stake in Amco

    Andhra Pradesh


  • Status quo Budget, say AP industry chambers
  • Survey to assess tech adoption in small industrial units
  • `FDI in retail welcome with safeguards'
  • Malaysia for early harvest of FTA — China cited as example
  • Canara Bank staff meet at Sri Sathya Sai Nigamagamam
  • ICICI's new branch at Banjara Hills

    Announcements


  • HBO to air Moving Picture's new film
  • MyTVS Club HP Smart1 card launched
  • Baleno price cut by Rs 8,000
  • DS Constructions bags hydel project
  • Tata hikes prices of hot rolled coils

    Aquaculture


  • SEAI hails duty sops

    Automobiles


  • Cochin Motor Show from today

    Beverages


  • Moving ahead

    Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd


  • Oil cos request AAI to defer awarding AFS licence

    Books


  • Innovating to stay ahead

    Brands


  • Bombay Dyeing to revive shirt brand Vivaldi

    Budget


  • Status quo Budget, say AP industry chambers
  • Commodity bourses welcome Budget
  • ICAI's views given due weightage
  • Some good, some bad, some need a re-look
  • The Big Three on the Budget
  • A quick tour of the Budget for the hassled
  • Kerala industrialists pleased with Budget
  • Handloom sector hails proposals
  • Manufacturing sector gets a leg-up: CII
  • Engg body for service tax hike roll-back
  • `No concrete proposal for reducing unemployment'
  • Airlines surprised at new tax proposal
  • `Most oil sector needs unaddressed'
  • Increase in TUF, cut in excise duty welcomed
  • Provisions will hit markets: IMC
  • Electrical goods makers hail duty cut
  • India Inc lauds higher allocation for critical sectors
  • SME credit fund corpus to be raised
  • Steel scrap duty a welcome step
  • Duty cut for minerals hailed
  • `Not much to cheer for steel sector'
  • `No relief for oil PSEs'
  • `Progressive for textiles'
  • `Positive for healthcare delivery'
  • `Boost to synthetic spinning industry'
  • `Marginal relief to oil industry'
  • Cement sector says nothing concrete
  • NRIs welcome Budget proposals
  • `Neat Budget from long-term standpoint'
  • Debate on Budget
  • `Excise duty cut to boost growth'
  • Cashew industry welcomes proposals
  • Concern over service tax hike plan
  • `Common man empowered'
  • Leather ind disappointed
  • Walk the talk
  • Steel sector sees some lustre
  • `This should be the trend for future'
  • Duty cut on textile machinery hailed
  • `Hike in TUF still insufficient'
  • 'Makes good economic sense'
  • `Rubber industry left out'
  • Upasi welcomes tea fund
  • Duty hike on vanaspati cheered
  • SEAI hails duty sops
  • Budget fails to excite market players
  • Motor cover premium rates to rise
  • Big gains for banks from 80C
  • Insurance premium may rise with service tax hike
  • Focus on business continuity
  • Balancing populism, growth
  • No big picture
  • Coloured bright
  • INITIATIVES WELL SOWN
  • Complacent Budget
  • Baleno price cut by Rs 8,000
  • Budget `disappoints' telecom industry
  • Maran to take up excise issue with FM
  • `Mixed bag for IT sector'
  • Continuity in policy
  • `Duty on software disappointing'
  • ICSI hails Budget
  • Australia hails easing of mining norms
  • GST may be set at 14-16 pc: Chidambaram

    Cars


  • MyTVS Club HP Smart1 card launched
  • GM India Feb sales up 3.6 pc
  • Baleno price cut by Rs 8,000
  • Maruti sales down 5.8 pc
  • Price cuts to step up growth, says Khattar
  • Tata Motors unveils Cliffrider at Geneva show

    Cashew


  • Cashew industry welcomes proposals

    Cement


  • Cement sector says nothing concrete

    Channels and Franchises


  • Citizen to expand distribution network

    Cinema


  • HBO to air Moving Picture's new film

    Climate & Weather


  • Pre-monsoon activity seen setting in early
  • Summer is here

    Commentary


  • Bulls take Index to new high

    Commodity Exchanges


  • Commodity bourses welcome Budget

    Corporate Disputes


  • Tatas move to buy Birla stake in Idea Cellular

    Corporate Governance


  • Govt to nominate only two directors to oil PSU boards

    Courts/Legal Issues


  • Gardes-Essar backs out of CBM contracts bid

    Credit Cards & Debit Cards


  • MyTVS Club HP Smart1 card launched

    Ear to the ground


  • Himalya gains on Budget sops
  • Century Text up on ownership factor

    Economic Offences


  • Agreement on Smart City `within a week'

    Economy


  • Growth with or vs Equity
  • Continuity in policy
  • Investment panel moots removal of sectoral caps

    Editorial


  • INITIATIVES WELL SOWN

    Electrical Goods


  • Electrical goods makers hail duty cut
  • French co Saft picks up stake in Amco

    Engineering


  • Engg body for service tax hike roll-back

    Entertainment & Leisure


  • Sudoku

    Environment


  • Innovating to stay ahead
  • Philips develops `efficient' stove

    Events


  • Canara Bank staff meet at Sri Sathya Sai Nigamagamam
  • Cochin Motor Show from today
  • Workshop on public lighting in Thiruvananthapuram

    Excise and Customs


  • Increase in TUF, cut in excise duty welcomed
  • Customs duty cut perks up paints sector
  • Steel scrap duty a welcome step
  • `Boost to synthetic spinning industry'
  • Duty hike on vanaspati cheered
  • No big picture
  • Maran to take up excise issue with FM
  • Continuity in policy
  • `Duty on software disappointing'

    Exports & Imports


  • Vegoil base import price hiked
  • Duty hike on vanaspati cheered
  • SEAI hails duty sops
  • RBI to allow more banks to import gold

    Fertilisers


  • Gujarat Narmada to merge arm with itself
  • Liberty Phosphate turns active ahead of EGM

    Financial Performance


  • Goodricke net rises on higher sales

    Financial Scan


  • Growth with or vs Equity

    Fixed Deposits


  • Big gains for banks from 80C

    Foods & Food Processing


  • Himalya gains on Budget sops

    Foreign Direct Investment


  • `FDI in retail welcome with safeguards'
  • Foreign funds eye Bangalore, Mysore expressway project
  • Morgan Stanley enters realty sector

    Foreign Relations


  • Two Cs and two Ds make four As
  • Bush agenda mum on space co-operation
  • India, US to focus on bilateral trade
  • No uranium supplies from Australia

    Foreign Trade


  • Malaysia for early harvest of FTA — China cited as example
  • Two Cs and two Ds make four As
  • Australia hails easing of mining norms
  • India, US to focus on bilateral trade

    Forex


  • Rupee edges up against $

    General Insurance


  • Motor cover premium rates to rise

    Gold & Silver


  • RBI to allow more banks to import gold

    Govt Bonds


  • Banks, PDs allowed to short-sell G-secs
  • Bond prices fall

    Handloom


  • Handloom sector hails proposals

    Hardware


  • Maran to take up excise issue with FM

    Health


  • Grayson gives blind people a Web vision

    Hero Honda Motors Ltd


  • Hero Honda sales rise 12 pc

    Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd


  • MyTVS Club HP Smart1 card launched
  • Oil cos request AAI to defer awarding AFS licence

    Home Appliances


  • Philips develops `efficient' stove

    Horticulture/Fruits & Vegetables


  • Summer is here

    Human Resources


  • Convergys to expand India operations

    ICICI Bank Ltd


  • ICICI's new branch at Banjara Hills
  • MyTVS Club HP Smart1 card launched

    Income Tax


  • Big gains for banks from 80C

    Industry Associations


  • Status quo Budget, say AP industry chambers
  • Kerala industrialists pleased with Budget
  • Provisions will hit markets: IMC
  • Duty cut for minerals hailed
  • Upasi welcomes tea fund
  • Duty hike on vanaspati cheered

    Infrastructure


  • Agreement on Smart City `within a week'
  • IT is Coimbatore
  • Foreign funds eye Bangalore, Mysore expressway project
  • Government to promote theme-based towns
  • Oil cos request AAI to defer awarding AFS licence

    Insight


  • Growth with or vs Equity

    Internet


  • Grayson gives blind people a Web vision

    Interview


  • Price cuts to step up growth, says Khattar

    Investment Banking


  • Morgan Stanley enters realty sector

    Karnataka


  • Foreign funds eye Bangalore, Mysore expressway project
  • Debate on Budget
  • `Excise duty cut to boost growth'
  • Cashew industry welcomes proposals
  • Concern over service tax hike plan

    Kerala


  • Cochin Motor Show from today
  • Workshop on public lighting in Thiruvananthapuram
  • Agreement on Smart City `within a week'
  • Pre-monsoon activity seen setting in early
  • Innovating to stay ahead
  • Kerala industrialists pleased with Budget

    Kochi


  • Kochi port cuts box handling charges

    Leather


  • Leather ind disappointed

    Letters


  • Complacent Budget

    Life Insurance


  • Insurance premium may rise with service tax hike

    Maruti Udyog Ltd


  • Baleno price cut by Rs 8,000
  • Maruti sales down 5.8 pc
  • Price cuts to step up growth, says Khattar

    Medical Institutions & Hospitals


  • `Positive for healthcare delivery'

    Mergers & Acquisitions


  • Six RRBs sponsored by Allahabad Bank merged
  • Gujarat Narmada to merge arm with itself
  • Pidilite acquires 75 pc stake in Thai company
  • Aircel applies for eight more circles
  • Major rejig at Hutchison Essar; Ruias up stake

    Metals


  • India to turn major metals consumer

    Minerals


  • Duty cut for minerals hailed
  • No uranium supplies from Australia

    Mining & Quarrying


  • Australia hails easing of mining norms

    Mutual Funds


  • UTI Mutual to enhance international operations

    NRIs


  • NRIs welcome Budget proposals

    New Products & Services


  • Philips develops `efficient' stove
  • Tata Motors unveils Cliffrider at Geneva show
  • MS multi-language software launched
  • Hutch offers uniform STD rate
  • Airtel launches Re 1 STD plans

    Non-conventional Energy


  • Philips develops `efficient' stove

    Office Equipments & Supplies


  • Pidilite acquires 75 pc stake in Thai company

    Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd


  • Gardes-Essar backs out of CBM contracts bid

    Oilseeds & Edible Oil


  • Vegoil base import price hiked
  • Duty hike on vanaspati cheered

    Other States


  • Six RRBs sponsored by Allahabad Bank merged
  • `No concrete proposal for reducing unemployment'

    Outlook


  • IOC's revenue loss on LPG sales to come down

    Outsourcing


  • Convergys to expand India operations

    Overseas Borrowings


  • Aban Loyd to raise $80 m via FCCBs

    PSU


  • `No relief for oil PSEs'

    Paints


  • Customs duty cut perks up paints sector

    People


  • Raghu Pillai to join Reliance's retail venture
  • Walk the talk
  • Re-elected AIPSBOF chief
  • Govt to nominate only two directors to oil PSU boards
  • New chief for Nuclear Fuel Complex

    Performance


  • TVS Feb sales up 18 per cent
  • Hero Honda sales rise 12 pc
  • GM India Feb sales up 3.6 pc
  • Maruti sales down 5.8 pc

    Personal Products


  • `Common man empowered'

    Petroleum


  • `Most oil sector needs unaddressed'
  • `No relief for oil PSEs'
  • `Marginal relief to oil industry'
  • Gardes-Essar backs out of CBM contracts bid
  • IOC's revenue loss on LPG sales to come down
  • Oil cos request AAI to defer awarding AFS licence
  • AI commences jet fuel price risk hedging
  • Govt to nominate only two directors to oil PSU boards
  • Aban Loyd to raise $80 m via FCCBs

    Policy


  • Government to promote theme-based towns

    Pollution


  • Philips develops `efficient' stove

    Power


  • Workshop on public lighting in Thiruvananthapuram
  • DS Constructions bags hydel project
  • No uranium supplies from Australia

    Private Banks


  • ICICI's new branch at Banjara Hills
  • SIB to open more branches
  • Re-elected AIPSBOF chief

    Promotions & Offers


  • Moving ahead

    Public Sector Banks


  • Canara Bank staff meet at Sri Sathya Sai Nigamagamam
  • UTI Mutual to enhance international operations
  • BoB to expand overseas biz

    RBI & Other Central Banks


  • Banks, PDs allowed to short-sell G-secs
  • RBI to allow more banks to import gold

    Radio/TV


  • HBO to air Moving Picture's new film

    Random Walk


  • Innovating to stay ahead

    Readymade Garments


  • Bombay Dyeing to revive shirt brand Vivaldi

    Real Estate & Construction


  • Morgan Stanley enters realty sector

    Regional Rural Banks


  • Six RRBs sponsored by Allahabad Bank merged

    Regulatory Bodies & Rulings


  • Investment panel moots removal of sectoral caps

    Retailing


  • `FDI in retail welcome with safeguards'
  • Raghu Pillai to join Reliance's retail venture

    Roadways


  • Foreign funds eye Bangalore, Mysore expressway project

    Rubber


  • `Rubber industry left out'
  • Rubber remains steady

    SSI


  • Survey to assess tech adoption in small industrial units
  • SME credit fund corpus to be raised

    Satyam Computer Services Ltd


  • Satyam to expand China presence

    Science & Technology


  • Bush agenda mum on space co-operation
  • New chief for Nuclear Fuel Complex

    Sensor


  • Bulls take Index to new high

    Shipping


  • Kochi port cuts box handling charges
  • Vizag handling crosses 50 mt again

    Short Term Instruments


  • Call rate closes 6.5-6.6

    Society & Development


  • Grayson gives blind people a Web vision

    Software


  • Survey to assess tech adoption in small industrial units
  • MS multi-language software launched
  • Maran to take up excise issue with FM
  • Satyam to expand China presence
  • `Duty on software disappointing'

    Spices & Condiments


  • Cardamom up on buying support
  • Global pepper prices remained low despite drop in output

    Steel


  • Steel scrap duty a welcome step
  • `Not much to cheer for steel sector'
  • Steel sector sees some lustre
  • Tata hikes prices of hot rolled coils

    Stock Markets


  • Budget fails to excite market players
  • Sensex shoots up 195 points on aggressive fund buying

    Stocks


  • Himalya gains on Budget sops
  • Century Text up on ownership factor
  • Reliance Natural lists at Rs 17.5
  • Liberty Phosphate turns active ahead of EGM
  • Sensex shoots up 195 points on aggressive fund buying

    Strategy


  • Baleno price cut by Rs 8,000
  • Airtel launches Re 1 STD plans

    Tamil Nadu


  • Handloom sector hails proposals
  • Manufacturing sector gets a leg-up: CII
  • Engg body for service tax hike roll-back

    Tata Motors Ltd


  • Tata Motors unveils Cliffrider at Geneva show

    Tata Steel Ltd


  • Tata hikes prices of hot rolled coils

    Taxation


  • ICAI's views given due weightage
  • Some good, some bad, some need a re-look
  • The Big Three on the Budget
  • Engg body for service tax hike roll-back
  • Airlines surprised at new tax proposal
  • Concern over service tax hike plan
  • Motor cover premium rates to rise
  • Insurance premium may rise with service tax hike
  • GST may be set at 14-16 pc: Chidambaram

    Tea


  • Upasi welcomes tea fund
  • Goodricke net rises on higher sales

    Technical Analysis


  • Bull domination

    Telecommunications


  • Budget `disappoints' telecom industry
  • ITI bags order from Alcatel
  • Aircel applies for eight more circles
  • Major rejig at Hutchison Essar; Ruias up stake
  • Tatas move to buy Birla stake in Idea Cellular
  • Hutch offers uniform STD rate
  • Airtel launches Re 1 STD plans

    Television Sets


  • No big picture

    Textile Machinery


  • Duty cut on textile machinery hailed

    Textiles


  • Increase in TUF, cut in excise duty welcomed
  • `Progressive for textiles'
  • `Boost to synthetic spinning industry'
  • `Hike in TUF still insufficient'
  • Century Text up on ownership factor

    Trade & Labour Unions


  • Canara Bank staff meet at Sri Sathya Sai Nigamagamam

    Trends


  • TVS Feb sales up 18 per cent
  • Hero Honda sales rise 12 pc
  • GM India Feb sales up 3.6 pc
  • Maruti sales down 5.8 pc

    Two/Three Wheelers


  • TVS Feb sales up 18 per cent
  • 'Makes good economic sense'
  • Hero Honda sales rise 12 pc

    Visakhapatnam


  • Vizag handling crosses 50 mt again

    Watches & Accessories


  • Citizen to expand distribution network

    Wheat


  • Govt to release 1 lt more wheat
  • AWB wins wheat tender



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