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Panel favours higher caps in telecom, banking
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 4.The high power N. K. Singh Committee on Foreign Direct Investment is understood to have favoured hiking the sectoral caps in banking, insurance telecom and civil aviation sectors. The committee's report is likely to be ...

K.M. Birla eighth youngest billionaire
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 4.Kumarmangalam Birla ranks the eighth youngest billionaire in the world in Fortune magazine ratings, pipping Australian media tycoon, Richard Li, with $2.1 billion to his name against Li's $1.6 billion. Fortune ...

UTI — the bailout and confidence building
When the Finance Minister announced last Saturday a rescue package for the Unit Trust of India, attention immediately turned to its financial implications. It has been recognised that the cost of the bailout will be met out of public finance, ...

LOOKING AHEAD
The task before the taskforce
At the end of July, when it first became apparent that 324 out of the country's 546 districts had been struck by the worst drought in 36 years, the government announced that it was setting up a taskforce to tackle the drought headed by no less ...