The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 25, 2005

FBT fails to sting — Cuts into only 1.1 pc of PBT in Q1
CORPORATE India conveyed its utmost displeasure in February when the Finance Minister ushered in the regime of Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT). It even extracted some concessions from the Finance Minister and the original proposals were modified to ... More

Shortage of investigators may upset clinical trials applecart
THE world's biggest medicine makers are in India with plans to increase their clinical trial activities, involving the testing of medicines on humans. Not oblivious to this, the Centre too is tightening regulations to prevent the local population ... More

Trying times ahead for TV news channels
"News broadcast is definitely a personality-driven business. Thus churning of management or journalists can have its ramifications on company performance," said an analyst. More

Local issues may hamper FDI flow in realty sector
THINK local-act global, is the mantra that overseas players eyeing Indian realty market seem to be chanting now. Even as relaxed FDI norms in the real estate sector has substantially heated up the market, on-the-ground local issues including ... More

AMFI fine-tuning norms to check mis-selling
IN a bid to clean up the industry and put an end to mis-selling, the mutual fund industry is suggesting various reforms and is expected to table these recommendations to Securities and Exchange Board of India shortly. The Board Members of ... More

It's up, up hurrah, thanks to fund flow
IF all time highs in the local benchmarks are in currency, there is no reason why the Chinese currency appreciation will not recharge the market psyche. Given the current overseas and local exuberance over the domestic equities, possibilities of ... More

PM's nod for ONGC project in Mangalore
THE Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has given the nod for the Rs 21,000-crore investment of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in LNG, power and petrochemicals project in Mangalore. A communication issued from the Prime Minister's ... More