The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 31, 2009

Bharti Airtel joins mobile tariff war with per second billing
Entry of various new players dents profit growth rate. New Delhi, Oct. 30 The mobile tariff war intensified further on Friday with the largest player in the Indian cellular market Bharti Airtel announcing seconds-based billing. Until now, Bharti ...

General Motors gears up for new China-India link
China’s SAIC Motor may get a fast ride into India. Mumbai, Oct. 30 General Motors is putting in place a growth strategy for the Asia-Pacific region which will see huge synergies between its Chinese and Indian ...

Mr Manoj Kohli, Chief Exe... Results add to woes of battered telecom stocks
Selling in telecom stocks intensifed on Friday as telecom major Bharti Airtel announced lower than ...

ICICI Bank reports flat net in Q2
Farm loan portfolio dips. ICICI Bank’s net profit edged up a marginal 2.5 per cent in the quarter ended September 30, 2009 at Rs 1,040 crore, against Rs 1,014 crore in the corresponding period last ...

Madras SE members to trade directly on NSE
Facility to be made available from November 5. The National Stock Exchange has decided to permit members of the Madras Stock Exchange to trade directly on the NSE in both cash and F&O ...

Essar Oil close to buying out Shell’s European refineries
Mumbai, Oct. 30 Royal Dutch Shell PLC has selected Essar Oil as the preferred bidder for its three European ...

Flying from Hyderabad may become costlier
Istanbul (Turkey), Oct. 30 Flying from Hyderabad will become more expensive soon. The Chairman of GMR Group, Mr G.M. Rao, told newspersons that the operator had applied to the regulator for an increase in the user development ...

Judging Indira Gandhi
Today, it is exactly 25 years since the assassination of Indira Gandhi. Its memory is still fresh in the minds of Delhi-ites. There is so much to recall and to sort out that it is hard to make sense of what she was all ...

Rains to continue for another 2-3 days
Among stations recording heavy rainfall till Friday morning (in cm) are: Ramanathapuram-9; Sathankulam - 8; and Pamban and Tiruchendur (all Tuticorin district) - 7 each; Vedaranyam -5; Kavali - 4; Tondi, Kodaikanal and ...

Markets this week(Latest Audio:English/Tamil)
Institutional selling in heavy weight stocks, particularly of banks and real estate, led the market indices to end lower on Monday, heralding the advent of a choppy session. The Sensex fell 70 points to finish at 16,741. On the NSE, the Nifty ...

SEBI mulls 15-day futures contracts
Mumbai, Oct. 30 The secondary markets advisory committee of the SEBI, which met on Friday, has recommended the introduction of fortnightly futures contracts on the stock exchanges, it is ...