The Hindu : Saturday, February 14, 2004

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Mega public offerings to hit market shortly
NEW DELHI, FEB. 13. The Central Government is understood to have advanced the date of public offering of its 10 per cent stake in the gas utility major GAIL to February 27 instead of March 13 as decided previously. The GAIL issue is likely to ...

Franchisee model: need for legislation
CHENNAI, FEB. 13.Franchisees are a dime a dozen in India. Be it Internet cafes or IT education and food outlets, the franchisee model has become the order of the day. This business model, in some cases, has encountered a host of problems. ...

Centurion Bank chalks out organisational strategy
CHENNAI, FEB. 13. Centurion Bank will soon come out with an organisational strategy that will fill the talent gaps, bridge the reward mismatch and spread the positive strengths by putting in position an effective control and process ...

Mobile phones: end of price competition?
Cellular tariffs are up after months of decline. The service providers blame regulation. Consumers, on the other hand, may see the end of price competition.

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Tea industry seeks lower agricultural tax

Tisco, L&T JV to develop port in Orissa

Sensex retraces 6000-mark

Car sales zoom in January

Rupee strides to new high

FRP units asked to adopt quality certification system

Sony cuts prices

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LIC to replace Bima Nivesh
BANGALORE, FEB. 13. Bima Nivesh, Life Insurance Corporation's unit linked triple cover plan, will go off the market by the end of this month to be replaced by a new product, Jeevan Saral. Company officials here said the new product would be ...

Cap on ICICI Bank shares purchase
KOLKATA, FEB. 13. The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a cap on further purchases of ICICI Bank shares by foreign institutional investors, NRIs or other foreign buyers as the total foreign shareholding in the bank had touched the trigger limit ...

Other Stories

Cummins launches engines

Corporation Bank signs MoU with Texmo

Geojit pays 15 p.c. interim

India to host World Bamboo Congress

JRG starts futures trading in cardamom

Kinetic to consolidate in motorcycle segment

Cendua's knowledge module

Pharmexcil steering committee members

Lok Adalat by Dhanalakshmi Bank

BearingPoint opens Chennai centre

Cox & Kings' customised offerings

CII Cost Congress