INDIA INTELLIGENCE REPORT

 

Business & Economy

India, Pakistan announce
joint business council
 
What is India News Service, Monday, 18 April 2005, 1400 hrs IST

India and Pakistan on Sunday announced a number of trade measures, such as revival of the joint commission on economic issues, establishing a joint business council and discussions on the possibility of opening traditional transit routes to boost bilateral and regional trade.

The two sides also agreed to operationalise the rail link between Munnabao in Rajasthan and Khokrapar in Sindh by the end of this year.

On the second day of his visit to the country, the Pakistani President, General Pervez Musharraf, held wide-ranging discussions with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, at Hyderabad House.

Punjab gains from world economy: Doaba region of the Punjab, besides pockets of Haryana, Delhi, and states with high number of non-resident Indians are reaping rich dividend from the booming world economy as the remittances in these regions have gone up manifold.

Learn from China, advises Infosys chief: The chairman and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited, Mr N.R. Narayanamurthy believes re-deploying people from agriculture sector to construction and manufacturing sectors will help accelerate growth.

India's large population is a liability: Infosys chief: India's large population can become a liability rather than an advantage as limited progress in human resources development has been made so far, Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy has said.

Profit margins of PSUs on the rise
: For all the talk about public sector oil companies losing money on subsidised sale of kerosene, LPG and diesel, thanks to oil prices, the PSUs as a class are not doing all that badly. 

TRAI order to result in churn of customers: VSNL: Internet Gateway and service provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) fears a churn in customers following a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) order to co-locate clients routers on its premises and has requested the regulator to provide a level-playing field.

Now, insurance sector to outsource data management: After banks, stock exchanges and the like, it is now the turn of the insurance sector to outsource data management. 

April may not record flurry of FII activity
: The collective sigh of relief about positive FII inflows in March may have been a case of `speaking too soon', if indications about future inflows are anything to go by.

RINL to raise Rs 2,500 cr to fund expansion \97 Keen to form jt ventures: Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd, which runs the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, proposes to raise debt of Rs 2,500 crore from the market.

Vijaya Bank slaps notice on Tulip Star: State-owned Vijaya Bank said today that its Rs 20-crore term loan to Ajit Kerkar-controlled Tulip Hospitality Services Ltd has become a non-performing asset and the company had allegedly tried to change or transfer the management without consent.




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