INDIA INTELLIGENCE REPORT
 

News Analysis - August 24, 2006

 
  • Corp Expansion despite Stalled Reforms
    Despite a stalled disinvestment process and halt to reforms, several positive factors in the Indian economy, perhaps not to the optimal level, have emerged encouraging targeted overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by many Indian companies.
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  • ONGC Unveils Massive Investments
    To fund expected growth, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) unveiled plans to invest Rs. 130,000 crore (USD 28.2 billion) from 2007-2012 in oil and gas exploration, overseas acquisition of captive resource assets, and expansion of infrastructure.
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  • OOP Signed and Challenged in SC
    The political parties’ collusion to resend the exact same Office of Profit (OOP) bill back to the President despite it being returned for reconsideration has been challenged by the Trinamool Congress through a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court. <More>

  • Hindu Group Wants Army to Help Reclaim Land
    A Hindu Vasihavaite sect in Assam says that illegal migrants from Bangladesh have usurped over 400 religious places owned by the Asom Sattra Mahasava with administrative and political connivance and has petitioned the Army for help. <More>

  • India Holds Pak Responsible for Terror
    India says it has evidence of Pakistan’s continued support for terrorism and the involvement of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in the 7/11 serial blasts after anti-terrorism squad (ATS) killed a Pakistani in Mumbai and captured another in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).
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  • Naxals Strike Mangalore Forest Office
    In typical military style, Naxal terrorists attacked the Range Forest Office in Karnataka damaging the building, burnt official records, wirless set, computer equipment, and a jeep after destroying a local telephone exchange ahead of the raid.
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  • US Arrests 13 for Trying to Buy Missiles for LTTE
    In a major sting operation spanning several cities, the US said that it had arrested 13 people for trying to buy surface-to-air missiles and other weapons in the black market for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) seen as a “dangerous terrorist group."  <More>

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