The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, May 04, 2003

Grand Vitara XL-7: Maruti times luxury drive right
SLOTH and the `we know the customer best' attitude are two characteristics that a company which is a market monopoly unfortunately tends to acquire. These stifle innovation and invariably lead to an erosion of market share. For quite some time, ... More

Tata AIG's Assure Educare
Assure Educare is a child endowment policy from Tata AIG. It comes in two variants: Educare 18 which matures when the child grows up to be 18, and Educare 21 which matures at age 21. How it works? Educare is an ... More

Investing in fund of funds
SEBI has cleared the proposal for fund of funds in India. It is a mutual fund that invests in other mutual funds. Why invest in fund of funds? Suppose you have Rs 50,000 to invest. Will you prefer to invest it in just one fund? You may not ... More

BSNL's new tariff plans: Getting to the pulse of the consumer
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has now upped the ante in the business of landlines that still dominate the telecom landscape. This comes on the heels of BSNL's success in the mobile phone business, where it racked up 2.3 million customers ... More

M&M Financial Services: Ride on
THE fixed deposit programme of Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services (MMFSL) is a good investment option. The interest rate on offer is lower than that given by companies such as Ashok Leyland Finance. However, given the revival in auto ... More

Pricing of long distance calls
THE "Dial 95" facility within each State has been made more attractive. It has been extended for distances greater than 200 km within the same telecom circle (usually each State is a circle). For instance, let us take the Tamil Nadu circle. The ... More

ANTI-DUMPING

Dumping duty on porcelain tiles from UAE, China
THE Finance Ministry has imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on all imports of porcelain and vitrified tiles (other than industrial vitrified) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China. Based on the recommendations of the Designated ... More

CEMENT

Cement despatches down due to truckers' strike
THREE cement majors - ACC Ltd, Larsen & Toubro and Grasim Industries - have reported decline in despatches, year on year, for the month of April 2003. All three attributed the decline to the nation-wide truckers' strike that affected goods ... More

STEEL

Steel revival package: Recasting to strengthen
THE domestic steel sector has had another dose of good news with the possible finalisation of the second tranche of the industry's debt-restructuring package. With the latest announcement, the Government has clearly signalled, and reiterated, ... More

TEXTILES

Date extended for textile input stock declaration
CLOSE on the heels of the Government's decision to provide turnover-based excise duty reliefs for textile producers, the Finance Ministry has granted another relief to those sections of the textile industry that have come under the excise net ... More

ELECTRICAL GOODS

`Improve efficacy of batteries'
THE Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), a premier research and designing institution of the Indian Railways, has asked battery manufacturers to take up research in developing optimal performance batteries. Delivering the keynote ... More

PRECIOUS METALS

Day of the gold rush
FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Kauslaya beams as she comes out of her favourite jewellery shop in T. Nagar, the gold district of Chennai. She has every reason to smile as she has booked a bangle and a gold pendant for her daughter to be picked up tomorrow, on ... More

IPR

NIPO protests US move on Super 301

EVENTS

Arbitration Act needs changes, says SC judge
THE earlier the hurriedly-drafted Arbitration and Reconciliation Act, 1996 is amended, the better it would be for the industry, Mr Justice R.C. Lahoti of the Supreme Court has said. Addressing the `Legal conference on infrastructure reforms: ... More

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