The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, January 08, 2006

Move to make healthcare affordable
New cover: Free medicines for BPL families on the anvil
IT may not be the conventional passbook that customers use to update bank balances. The Centre is mulling a `passbook concept' to help families below the poverty line (BPL) purchase medicines. The proposal, part of the Centre's new National ... More

After FIPB nod, ByCell plan may hit DoT wall
THE Switzerland-based investment company ByCell Holdings AG's move to invest Rs 457 crore in setting up cellular network in India could hit rough weather with the Department of Telecom saying that the decision by the Foreign Investment Promotion ... More

SBI hikes domestic term deposit rates
STATE Bank of India announced on Saturday a hike in interest rates on domestic term deposits by 0.25-0.50 percentage points on varying maturity from January 9. SBI is the latest to hike the deposit rates. Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Union ... More

`Fat finger' trades are not aberrations
THE fat finger trades in Tulip IT Services scrip at the BSE on January 5 must be perceived not as an aberration, but an inevitability in the context of automated order-routing systems (AORSs), which have replaced the telephone a means of ... More

Pick a winner stock market contest
FOR the contest held during December 2005, the stock of Zodiac JRD-MKJ posted the maximum gain of 99.8 per cent. Its share price rose from Rs 33.30 to Rs 66.50. Out of 1,207 entries received, there were five winners. They are: N. Venkataraman ... More