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'Instil confidence among shareholders'
NEW DELHI, AUG. 29. Assuring the captains of Indian industry that a parliamentary committee will consider changes in the Companies Amendment Bill of 2003 suggested by the them, the former Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, today asked India Inc. ...
P&G adjudged best employer
MUMBAI, AUG. 29.The global outsourcing and consulting firm, Hewitt Associates, has ranked Procter & Gamble India as the best employer among private and public firms in the country, while the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was adjudged ...
National Tax Tribunal by Dec.-end
CHENNAI, AUG. 29. The proposed National Tax Tribunal will start functioning from New Delhi by end-December. The Central Board of Direct Taxes does not favour multiple location of the tribunal to ensure that there are no conflicting rulings, ...
HPCL shines among cyclicals
MUMBAI, AUG. 29. Led by HPCL, equities soared to their dizzy heights in the fourth consecutive price rally and ended with sharp rises even as profit booking by investors pared part of gains at the fag end on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday. ...
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New pension scheme amidst falling interest rates
Last Saturday the Reserve Bank of India took the money market and practically everyone else by surprise in reducing the repo rate by half a percentage point to 4.5 per cent. The purport of the move — the repo rate is the rate at which banks ...
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    Consumer index up 4 points
    SHIMLA: The Consumer Price Index number for industrial workers (base 1982=100) registered a four point rise in July at 501, Labour Bureau sources said. The increase was attributed to rise in prices of rice, wheat, fresh fish, milk, onion, ...
    NCDEX to take off by October
    COIMBATORE: The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) is likely to take off by October as the infrastructure for running the exchange is getting ready, its Business Officer, Naresh Gupta, told presspersons here on Friday. Mr. ...



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