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Truant rains may stunt growth
THE country's kharif crop production may have suffered a setback with the rain gods playing truant in the main south-west monsoon season (June-September). But what could emerge as a bigger source of worry is the lacklustre rains in the ...
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Grains output likely to fall by 30 mt
WHAT will deficient rainfall in both the monsoon as well as post-monsoon season add up to in terms of the country's overall agriculture production for 2002-03? The Agriculture Ministry has, in its `first advance estimate' released in November, ...
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BSNL to bundle Net with basic services
IN an ambitious move to expand its Internet footprint and provide a whole range of new value-added services to its subscribers, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has set the ball rolling on its National Internet Backbone Phase II (NIB-II) project ...
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Banks told to form task force for risk-based internal audits
THE Reserve Bank of India has asked banks to form a task force to put in place risk-based internal audit systems. The central bank has, in its finalised guidelines issued on December 28, also asked banks to submit to it a quarterly audit policy ...
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Chyawanprash market in for healthier glow
THE innocuous chyawanprash bottle relegated to the corner of your medicine chest is suddenly in the limelight. Recent months have witnessed a clutch of marketers lobbying to give the tottering Rs 260-crore chyawanprash market a fresh lease of ...
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Falling yields give PFs little elbow room
DEBT market players are having a bonanza, with yields on instruments dipping to a new low everyday and daily profits soaring to several crores. However, investors in the debt market such as provident funds have a woeful tale to tell. Will the ...
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Centenary illumination!
An old victoria waits outside the illuminated Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai which has completed 100 years.
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