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The Financial Express daily newsletter
Edition of Thursday, October 07, 2004
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THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS
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TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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Plan panel suggests clipping restrictions
The Planning Commission has recommended clipping of the restrictive provisions
entailed in Press Note 18 which require foreign companies to get the FIPB approval
before setting up a new venture. The department of industrial policy and promotion
has, however, stuck to its position and demanded status quo.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70756
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Schroeder adds voice
The controversy over Press Note 18 found an echo in visiting German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder�s address to leaders of industry in the capital.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70757
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DoT reluctant to interfere in BSNL-private operators� spat
The department of telecommunications may not initiate any action against operators
involved in illegal routing of ILD calls using the BSNL network, according to a senior
government official.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70758
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Next Budget will bring range of tax reforms, says PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that the government would present a
comprehensive set of tax reforms in the next Budget.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70759
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Aiyar wants states to cut sales tax on petroleum products
Petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is seeking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh�s
intervention to impress upon states the need to reduce sales tax on petroleum
products.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70760
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BOTTOMLINE: Return of the Mumbai native
�I have already said I will take a personal interest in ensuring that Mumbai�s
infrastructure is brought up-to-date. Since I�ve been in office just three-and-a-half
months, I have no record book to display".
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70761
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Edits & Columns
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The Planning Commission controversy
The Institute for Public Accuracy, a Washington-based think-tank, has put out an
interesting research article called �Harvard�s Best and Brightest Aided Russia�s
Economic Ruin.�
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70709
Are housing prices a house of cards?
The first big city to boom was London, starting around 1996. Boom mentality spread to
Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney around 1997, to Paris in 1998, to Miami, Moscow, and
Shanghai in 2001, and Vancouver around 2002.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70708
Retain Press Note 18
It would be pertinent here to list some of the totally one-sided terms that MNCs have
imposed on their Indian JVs.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70711
More in Edits & Columns at http://www.financialexpress.com/edits&columns.html
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Investor
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Assured returns hold the key
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70748
Diversified equity MFs lag behind major stock indices in September
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70749
Number of demat accounts at record high on NSDL
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70750
More in Investor at http://www.financialexpress.com/investor.html
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Money & Banking
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HSBC eyes �opportunistic buys�
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70712
Foreign promoter keen on increasing ING Life stake
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70713
Enlarge DRTs� scope to cover NBFCs: Assocham
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70714
More in Money & Banking at http://www.financialexpress.com/money&banking.html
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Economy
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Inflated bills, higher claims in mediclaim scam
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70739
Top cos in CBEC�s defaulters list
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70736
No obstacles in receiving World Bank, int�l funds: FM
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70740
More in Economy at http://www.financialexpress.com/economy.html
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Politics
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No Scrapping of Press Note 18: Left
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70720
�Maharashtra needs government on same wavelength as Delhi�
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70719
Cong confused, full of contradictions: BJP
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70723
More in Politics at http://www.financialexpress.com/politics.html
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Corporate
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Maruti brass on Japan visit to finetune
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70726
Tata group gung-ho on Bangla plans
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70727
Tata Motors Sept sales up 25%
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70728
More in Corporate at http://www.financialexpress.com/corporate.html
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Fe Insight
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Story telling as a communication tool
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70744
India: great product, bad positioning
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70745
New marketing? Same aim as old advertising
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70746
More in Fe Insight at http://www.financialexpress.com/feinsight.html
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News
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IAF to be modernised
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70721
Regulator for oil & gas sector by early 2005
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70722
More in News at http://www.financialexpress.com/news.html
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>From The South
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Kerala's trade-off parleys for FACT slip back to square one
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70763
CIAL pays Rs 3.9 cr maiden dividend
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70766
Export market comfort for FACT
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70764
More in From The South at http://www.financialexpress.com/fromthesouth.html
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EFE
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Front Page
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Giesecke & Devrient to invest 10 million euros in Indian operations
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70694
IBM, C-DAC, IIT Bombay to set up OSSRC
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70696
Organisations fail to provide content security: E&Y survey
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70697
More in Front Page at http://www.financialexpress.com/efe/frontpage.html
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Convergence
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HYSEA�s social initiative
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70700
Scicom Bhd starts India operations
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70701
HYSEA to encourage students towards IT sector as career options
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=70699
More in Convergence at http://www.financialexpress.com/efe/convergence.html
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