The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 25, 2002

Mobile satellite service set for an early take-off
WITH Insat-3C launched on Thursday, ISRO has made its fourth bid at the ambitious MSS (mobile satellite service) and hopes to succeed this time round. The `type A' MSS will enable users to actually carry their voice, data and fax on ... More

ECONOMY

Plan panel hopeful of adequate budgetary support
`Given the relative weightage, it is reasonable to expect that a GDP of 5.2 to 5.5 per cent or closer to 5.2 per cent would be feasible for the current fiscal, which is not out of line with the projections of the RBI and CMIF.' More

`Poor nations must ride crest of Third Wave'
THE Toffler wave hit Indian shores on Thursday, with the famed Mr Alvin Toffler speculating on the impact of the Third Wave on developing countries. Off the city's seacoast in Bandra, some thousand listeners, packed tight, looked up to Mr Toffler ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

Cuba to strengthen trade ties with India
CUBA has sought collaborative ventures with Indian entrepreneurs in the fields of sugar (in which the country is a major world producer), nickel extraction, pharmaceuticals and tourism. Making a presentation on Indo-Cuban trade relations at an ... More

PSU

Plea against closure of SAIL units
MR Jibon Roy, CPI(M) Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, has sought the intervention of Mr Brajo Kishore Tripathy, the Union Steel Minister, to stop the closing down of marketing units of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL). In a letter to the ... More

PETROLEUM

Troops movement boosts diesel sales
HEAVY troop movement in the border areas of the country, coupled with an improved agricultural demand has pushed up diesel sales by 3.30 per cent in December 2001, say industry watchers. The overall demand for petroleum products picked up by ... More

TAXATION

`VAT delayed to strengthen tax system'
THE decision to postpone implementation of the value-added tax system was neither a political move nor an administrative failure. It was taken in the interests of strengthening the system, according to Mr Abhay Tripathi, Director, Ministry of ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

Chambers decry VAT deferment
INDIA Inc has expressed disappointment and concern over the decision of the Centre and the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers to defer the implementation of a value-added tax (VAT) regime by a year. A VAT regime that would replace ... More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Insat-3C launch successful
TELECOM satellite Insat-3C, which was launched in the early hours today from the European Kourou spacepad, is showing normal performance. The 2,750-kg satellite is the second in the third generation Insat series and is meant to replace 2C, ... More

IPR

`India needs IPR courts'
INDIA needs to set up exclusive judicial courts to deal with intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, which are on the rise, noted legal expert and Patents Judge, Mr Michael Fysh, has said. Stating that India has moved from the developing to ... More

EVENTS

Sinha to lead Indian team to WEF meet
THE Union Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, will lead the Indian delegation to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in New York to be held from January 31 to February 4. Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra ... More

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