The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 20, 2009

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SECURITY: Software vendors look to big defence contracts
‘Significant opportunities in communications space’. Mumbai, March 19 Software companies in India are anticipating a bonanza, with the country’s defence forces expected to dish out ICT orders worth $500 million (Rs 2,500 crore) ...

POLICY: Auto component manufacturers to benefit from Centre’s move to fund bus purchase
Chennai, March 19 The recent announcement by the Centre to procure 15,000 buses worth Rs 4,800 crore under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) has given a leg up to auto component manufacturers also. State ...

POLITICS: Coalitions crowding out major parties
The Indian electorate has been making it clear from the 1990s that it is not for single-party rule. Politicians, particularly those from the two major national parties — the Congress and the BJP — have accepted this reality and ...

POLITICS: Voting at the press of a button
Hyderabad, March 19 In the 1989 general elections, select constituencies were used to try out a new gadget: The Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that even then caught the fancy of the ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: India, China set up machinery to sort out trade irritants
Stress the need for augmenting bilateral investments. India today asked China to strengthen bilateral trade and economic relations in order to beat the adverse effect of global slowdown and asked the Chinese to explore the possibility of more ...

POLITICS: Varun must prove video was doctored: CEC
Kolkata: It is up to Mr Varun Gandhi to prove that the video showing him making inflammatory anti-Muslim comments has been doctored, the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr N. Gopalaswami, told media here ...

POLITICS: Sikkim’s Haat bazaars ‘re-opened’ for election meetings
Gangtok, March 19 To the relief of political parties in Sikkim, the State Elections Department has removed the bar on holding political meetings at Haat bazaars that sell rural ...

POLITICS: ‘Non-Cong, non-BJP policies needed to push economy forward’
Kolkata, March 19 Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Mr Gurudas Dasgupta feels the anti-industrial stance adopted by the Opposition combine of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress in West Bengal will boomerang ...

POLITICS: Re-count
"Do you mind if I watch some election news or analysis for a while, daddy? I'm unable ...

POLITICS: Re-count
"That's my symbol for the polls - the party has asked me to campaign for ...

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