The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 08, 2008

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PSU: IOC-BRPL merger may be approved soon
Kolkata, Dec. 7 After IBP it is now the turn of the Assam-based Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (BRPL) to be merged with parent company IndianOil. According to senior officials of both the companies, the Department of ...

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: How FIs can tap top talent
One of the most important things financial institutions need to know about attracting and hiring tellers is that the very best candidates are fundamentally different from the rest of the talent pool. Think Animal Planet or Discovery ...

SECURITY: Mumbai blasts
Responses to Sticklish Issues dated Dec 1. We should stop blaming each other. On such occasions, the government should control the media. Such news should be covered in the last pages of newspapers. TV channels should not cover the attacks the ...

SECURITY: A focus on security
Perhaps a casual reader of history may not have seriously noticed but a strategist cannot discount the fact that the world was primarily colonised and exploited by those who came by the sea, writes Prabhakaran Paleri in ...

OUTLOOK: SMEs face difficulties in getting bank loans
Hyderabad, Dec. 7 Small and medium enterprises are feeling the heat of the slowdown and are facing difficulties in accessing credit from banks, according to ...

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