The Hindu Business Line : Friday, April 19, 2002

Farmers ready, but where are Bt cotton seeds?
IT is not only the farmers in the northern region who will be denied the opportunity to plant Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Ltd's (Mahyco) Bt cotton this year. The bulk of cotton growers in the rest of the country, too, are unlikely to obtain ... More

Cabinet okays Bill for petroleum regulator
The regulatory board will also authorise entities to market petroleum products, lay down service obligations for retail outlets and marketing entities and monitor prices of petroleum products. More

Marico moots 1:1 bonus
THE Marico Industries board has recommended a bonus issue of shares in the ratio of 1:1. For the year ended March 31, 2002, the FMCG company has reported a nine per cent increase in net profit at Rs 50.1 crore (Rs 45.8 crore). The board has ... More

HCL Insys net down 43 pc
HCL Infosystems Ltd (HCL Insys), a Delhi-based computing major, on Thursday announced a 43-per-cent drop in its net profit for its third quarter ended March 31, 2002 at Rs 10.28 crore against Rs 18.18 crore in the corresponding quarter last ... More

Fund-Bank annual meet opens today
THE role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in crisis management, combating money laundering and financing of terrorism are some of the major issues for discussion at the annual spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF beginning in ... More

World tunes to news channels as real life gets deadly
"The truth of an individual's nature begins to emerge as instinct shows its old forgotten face" - renowned ice climber Jeff Lowe in `The Ice Experience.' Ice climbing and television viewership are poles apart. But as the world before ... More

Govt to retain majority stake in Nalco post-divestment
THE Union Minister for Coal and Mines, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, has made it clear that the Government will continue to maintain its majority shareholding in National Aluminium Co (Nalco). Talking to presspersons after inaugurating the Rs ... More

FII investments sharply down on Gujarat events
WITH riotous mobs and fiendish arsonists laying siege to Gujarat, arguably the country's richest State, and cracks surfacing in the coalition Government at the Centre, institutional investors are showing signs of uneasiness. Investments by ... More

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