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Sensex at historic high
MUMBAI, JAN. 8. The Sensex (the Bombay Stock Exchange 30 share sensitive index) witnessing a highly volatile trading session, today opened at 5992.10, touched a high of 6118.62, declined to a low of 5992.10 and finally closed at 6108.54, gaining ...

Industry hails Centre's new measures
NEW DELHI, JAN. 8.The premier Indian chambers of commerce and industry today hailed the announcements made by the Union Finance Ministry of saying that the new measures would further enhance the competitiveness of the Indian economy as well as ...

Early elections to help disinvestment process
NEW DELHI, JAN. 8.The Union Disinvestment Minister, Arun Shourie, today maintained that early elections would help the process of disinvestment even as he welcomed the concessions given in the "mini-budget'' for the information technology sector. ...

Duty cut brings cheer to aviation industry
NEW DELHI, JAN. 8.Following the reduction of excise duty on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) and abolition of the Inland Air Travel Tax (IATT) and Foreign Travel Tax (FTT), air travel is all set to become cheaper in the days to come. The Minister ...

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    Modi takes over as FICCI President
    NEW DELHI, JAN. 8. Yogendra Kr. Modi has taken over as President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He assumed the office of the President of FICCI at the conclusion of the 76th annual session of FICCI here ...

    40 p.c. interim from GAIL
    NEW DELHI, JAN. 8. The State-owned gas transmission firm GAIL (India) today declared an interim dividend of Rs. 4 per share (40 per cent) for 2003-04. "The board of the company approved an interim dividend at the rate of 40 per cent," a company ...

    Cranes to buy Sigma
    BANGALORE, JAN. 8. Cranes Software International Ltd. (CSIL), a scientific and engineering software vendor, would pay $13 million for a suite of statistics and statistical graphics software products, Sigma, from the U.S. based SPSS Inc., a ...



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