Agriculture
Export issues
Airlines
AI to offer 5,000 more seats for Far East, Gulf
AI suitors given 2 more days for due diligence
Banking and Finance
Interest rates: Senior citizens dilemma
Cartoon
Cartoon
Commodities
`No threat to coir industry from imports'
Import curbs: An act of compulsion
Corporate
Indian Seamless to issue equity to IFC
Corporate governance: How not to misgovern
ITC outfit buys 6,701 VST shares
Hindi stars reel under failed acts
FICCI, CII taking team to Malaysia
Sage finishes tender offer for Interact
Credit Policy
Full credit to an unfazed RBI
Economy
`Import entry point curbs only to ease monitoring'
Dumping machinery to be beefed up
Business Confidence Index improves but ... -- NCAER sees no sign of slowdown reversal
Editorial
Vacillating SEBI
Fast track
Buyback offers propel activity
Financial Performance
HEG net up 31.98 pc; to pay 20% dividend
Subex net rises to Rs 10.28 crore
Softsell net profit slides
Maral Overseas net profit declines 53 pc
Shift in customer tastes, promo expenses tell on Bajaj
Bajaj Auto net down 57% -- Geared scooter sales slump 38 per cent
Godrej Industries net falls 33 pc
Food & Dairy Products
New spin on spider silk
Foreign Trade
Time for India, Bangladesh to pursue free trade policy
A step backward?
Impact
MRO-Tek: Steep cut in revenue targets
Siemens: Led by buyback
Information Technology
US slowdown hard on Indian software
Red Hat launches Linux 7.1 version
`Software firms must focus on brand building'
Infotech bags Rs 35-cr deal
I2DC Ventures draws up plans for a $15-m fund
Alopa ties up with RiverDelta Networks
Bharti mops up $460 m from partners -- Plans IPO at appropriate time to raise $200 m
Polaris offices soon in HK, Japan
Trivium joins Intel programme
Infrastructure
NHAI to take Panagarh-Palsit project to its board again
Mutual Funds
Income from transfer of UTI/MF units -- `Exemption never intended on capital gains front'
PSU
Supply orders from DoT -- Hind Cables: Reservation likely post-divestment
Knowhow for bullet-proof products -- Tatas, Mahindras in talks with Midhani
Pharmaceuticals
Aurobindo sets up unit for HIV care
Plantations
Pepper prices rise on short supply
Politics
Powell's flawed gift of prophecy
US-China-India: On a new course
Pre-poll violence
Power
Cut in free hydel quota for home States mooted
Enron: Indian lenders threat to move court
Tackling the power mess
Karnataka gives in-principle nod for Euro India power project
Shipping
ChPT box terminal staff resort to `go slow'
SCI in talks with GWA for tea shipments
States
CPI(M)'s economic activism -- Moulding a growth model in Kerala
Thrust on infrastructure for biotech growth in AP
Need for more paediatric courses in AP stressed
Steel
Cost-saving methods introduced at DSP
Stocks
Infosys leads the software rally
Lyons Range
Tea
Good demand for Assam brokens at Guwahati auction
Hike in Section 33AB allowance -- Submit utilisation details to Tea Board, cos told
Lankan envoy allays fears on tea front
Technical Analysis
Uptrend triggered
Technology
`UN should bridge digital divide'
Textiles
TN targets 1,500 t silk output by 2007
Transport
Airlines urged to rethink animal shipment boycotts
Diesel locomotives shipped to Malaysia
Railway Board to stay: Nitish
