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2007 as the Broadband Year: Turning the dream into Reality
By Akshay Nagpal
Sri Dayanidhi Maran, Minister for Communications and Information Technology in his speech at inaugural session of India Telecom, 2006 has declared 2007 as the year of Broadband. Announcing that Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) would upgrade all its existing broadband subscribers with 256 kbps speed to 2 Mbps, he called upon the private operators to come forward and match the speed of 2 Mbps. (Read
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| Maharashtra
Ordinance takes on India
By Somasekhar
Sundaresan
A month ago, this column spoke
about the perils in the capital market due to
the Maharashtra government's approach to Stamp
Duty legislation. (Stamping out Mumbai's Capital
Market in edition dated April 11, 2005)
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| Stamping
out Mumbai`s capital market
By Somasekhar
Sundaresan
Mumbai has always been proud of
being the financial capital of India. It houses
the headquarters of the two biggest stock exchanges
and, the finance minister has now indicated, there
is no room for a third.
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| Banking
roadmap leads to a dark tunnel
By Somasekhar
Sundaresan
In his Budget speech last fortnight,
the finance minister heralded a new ?roadmap?
for banking to be announced by the RBI. The same
evening, the RBI published its roadmap.
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The
Energy Industry in India: A Perspective
By Amit
Kapur
The importance of the energy industry
(electricity, oil & gas) in modern economies
cannot be over-emphasized. A vibrant and dynamic
energy sector is an imperative of a national economy
attaining growth and realizing its potential.
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BPO,
IT backlash: Finding a way out
By Jyoti
Sagar
December 13, 2002. Chairman and
managing director of Polaris, Arun Jain is taken
into custody by police in Jakarta over a commercial
dispute and later was released after diplomatic
intervention by none less than the Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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War,
Oil and the Knee jerk reactions
By
Jyoti Sagar
War worry. Cold wave. Production
pitfalls. Looks like a "perfect storm"
is brewing in the oil prices market. Despite the
outpouring of public outery at the prospect of attack
on Iraq, President Bush seems to be politically
and strategically poised on the brink of war.
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India
Risk: Perceptions and Reality
By
Jyoti Sagar
One of the prime drivers of an
international investment decision is the investor’s
perception of the country risk involved. Risk
in the context of investment means in common parlance,
the uncertainty of return.By its very nature ‘Country
Risk’ is measured not in absolute terms but more
in terms of a comparison between potential investment
destinations.
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