The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, October 27, 2002

Market-linked insurance plans — Have your cake and eat it too
A friend is in a dilemma. He is to get married shortly, and is grappling with the problem of where to direct his future savings. Should he stick to risky investments as he has a long career ahead, or should he create a financial cushion to help ... More

Address anomaly at the earliest
ARE bonds of IDBI and IFCI safer than those of mutual funds? That is what a section of investors think, if one is to go by the findings of a recent survey. This investor response comes when IDBI is seeking ... More

REC infrastructure bonds: No shocks
RURAL Electrification Corporation (REC) has come out with an issue of tax-saving infrastructure bonds, which is on tap (available anytime across the counter). Investors seeking to utilise the additional Rs 30,000 qualifying limit for ... More

AUTOMOBILES

Driven by domestic sales
THE automotive sector must be breathing easy after seeing September sales. Following the negative growth trends witnessed for most of the last six months, sales during September rose to offset the fall during the previous months. A general ... More

BUDGET

Budget consultations from Tuesday: Jaswant
THE Finance Ministry will begin consultations for preparation of the Union Budget next week, the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, said here today. To begin with, the Ministry will release recommendations of the task force on indirect taxes ... More

ENVIRONMENT

Rabo India launches `green' division
RABO India Finance Private Ltd has announced the setting up of a new `Sustainability and social innovation' division to provide structured financial products and services for eco-friendly and sustainable development projects. The division will ... More

HEALTH

Healthcare remains a challenge
India's spending on healthcare for fiscal 2002 was to be about five per cent of its GDP. This is favourable when compared to China, which also spends five per cent, or Singapore, Thailand or Iraq, which spend four per cent each. More

POWER

`SEB rating to decide State power funding'
SOON, credit rating agencies will help decide on the quantum of funds that the States will get from the Centre for their power reform programmes. According to the Union Power Minister, Mr Anant Geete, two credit rating agencies, Crisil and ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION

Construction: Much to build on
CONSTRUCTION stocks have been scaling new highs since the last year or so. This could be attributed to, among other things, the Government's renewed thrust on infrastructure spend, the Golden Quadrilateral road project involving a proposed Rs ... More

Shaky structure abroad
INDIAN construction companies have primarily been catering to the domestic market. According to a CIDC (Construction Industry Development Council) report, India's share in the global trade of construction, architectural and engineering services ... More

Laying the finance foundation
THE burgeoning gap between the required and the available capital for financing infrastructure and housing in the country has prompted the Government to look at various options for raising capital and attracting investments in these sectors. ... More

Building blocks of the world
THE money expended world over on the construction industry, the oldest service industry, amounts to a whopping $3.5 trillion. The expenditure by each country and the employment this industry generates are quite large. A look at the leading ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

`Setting up a biotech co is a bureaucratic nightmare'
IF you are an entrepreneur planning to get into the `lucrative' biotech industry in India, beware - to develop and launch a product into the market you have to go through nine Ministries and 44 committees. This, despite claims by tech-savvy ... More

WTO

Repatriation norms by foreign service provider mooted
A GOVERNMENT-appointed Working Group has suggested that special regulations may be framed to suspend the repatriation of money earned by foreign service providers , until emergency safeguard measures (ESM) are in force. The Working Group, which ... More

EVENTS

ICFAI meet on `innovations' in Hyderabad
THE Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) is organising a one-day `National conference on managing innovations' here on November 16. In a press release, the institute said the conference seeks to address key issues such as ... More

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