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SEBI to ease takeover rules; more time to fix IPO price
Timelines for bonuses reduced; dividends to be announced on a per-share basis. Mumbai, Feb. 2 SEBI will amend its takeover regulations to ease the path for a possible acquisition of Satyam Computer and also to provide for such extraordinary ...

DLF to raise over Rs 2,000 cr thru ‘non-strategic’ assets sale
New Delhi, Feb. 2 India’s largest real estate company DLF Ltd on Monday said it plans to raise over Rs 2,000 crore by ‘unlocking’ non-strategic and non-core assets. These may include surplus land in specific sites and its ...



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Tata Tea (Rs 593.55): Sell
We recommend a sell on Tata Tea from a short-term trading perspective. It is evident from the charts of Tata Tea that it had been on a medium-term uptrend between late November 2008 and mid January 2009 when it moved from Rs 430 to Rs 635. The ...

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Books of Educomp, six PSUs come under Govt lens
Inspections against more cos likely. New Delhi, Feb. 2 On the heels of the Satyam fraud, a number of companies both from the public and private sectors have come under the Ministry for Corporate Affairs ...

Exports dip marginally in Dec
Trade deficit at $7.5 b. With a weakened Indian rupee, there is a comfort on the foreign trade front since the heavy deceleration in exports noticed during October and November 2008 has moderated as export growth in dollar terms was 1.1 per cent ...

Indian CAs can soon practice in Australia
MUTUAL RECOGNITION. New Delhi, Feb. 2 Indian chartered accountants may soon get to practice Down Under. This could be one of the positive fallouts of the mutual recognition agreement (MRA) that accounting bodies of India and Australia are set ...

Slackened growth for India Inc
More companies see contraction in topline. Raw material price swings and interest costs have sizeably dented Corporate India’s profits in the December ...

You can now choose your STD operator
Department of Telecom permits sale of calling cards. New Delhi, Feb. 2 Consumers will soon get the freedom to choose their long distance telephone ...

Mastek to put 10% of staff on ‘virtual bench’
Move to stay profitable during downturn. City-based Mastek Ltd has put about 10 per cent of its total employee base on a ‘virtual bench’ for up to 12 months, a move which it says will help it stay profitable in the current ...

Fiscal deficit soars in Apr-Dec 2008
New Delhi, Feb. 2 The slowdown in the economy, coupled with higher outgo on account of stimulus package measures, has pushed the fiscal deficit during April-December 2008 to Rs 2,18,262 ...

Govt to ensure faster credit flow: Pranab Mukherjee
More banks expected to cut lending, deposit rates. New Delhi, Feb. 2 The Union Cabinet Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, who currently holds the Finance portfolio, on Monday said that the Government would strive to ensure smooth flow of credit to ...

SC to hear SEBI plea to quiz Ramalinga Raju today
The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a special leave petition filed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India for a direction to interrogate Mr B. Ramalinga Raju and Mr B. Rama Raju, former Chairman and Managing Director, respectively, ...

Maruti bucks trend with highest-ever car sales in Jan
Signs of commercial vehicles sales revival. Mumbai, Feb. 2 January marked a feather in the cap for the country’s top carmaker Maruti Suzuki which posted its highest ever monthly sales of 71,779 units. Its previous highest was in March ...

Honda tightens two-wheeler grip in India
Mumbai, Feb. 2 Honda is gradually strengthening its grip in the Indian two-wheeler segment. Its two entities, Hero Honda and Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI), have accounted for a 73 per cent market share in January ...

Gold imports down to a trickle
Mumbai, Feb. 2 Sharp fall in demand and high prices have led to 93 per cent fall in gold imports at 1.2 tonnes to 1.8 tonnes in January against 18 tonnes in the same period last year. In December, imports dipped to just three tonnes against ...

How ‘rational’ behaviour begets recession
Much of the economic theory in textbooks implicitly rests on two mutually reinforcing propositions. The first of these is Say’s Law — “supply creates its own demand”. When an entrepreneur produces a good, he expends ...


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