The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 13, 2003

Banking secrecy laws to be eased
LENDERS will soon have a bedfellow to share their disturbing secrets. Shedding its long-standing allergy towards allowing lenders to make credit information available more freely, the Government is finally set to relax banking secrecy laws to ... More

It's 8 to 8 off-peak hours for dial-up Net users
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today extended the off-peak timing for dial-up Internet access by four hours, setting the new time from 8.00 p.m. to 8.00 a.m. instead of 10.30 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. In effect, this means that ... More

SUVs set to blaze new trail
AFTER the buzz created by the `D' segment cars, it is now the turn of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to stir up excitement in the Indian automobile market. Some companies have already launched their SUVs, while some others plan to do so in the ... More

Telecom meet again today
THE warring cellular operators and WLL service providers are meeting once again here tomorrow under the aegis of the Telecom Committee constituted by the Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, to sort out the contentious issues. However, ... More

Markets in depressed mood
WAR fears, rumours of brokers' default, and selling of shares under margin funding depressed the market sentiment pulling down stock prices during the last 90 minutes of trading on Wednesday. The market opened marginally lower and moved in a ... More

Industry grows 6.4 pc in January
INDUSTRY continues to be on revival mode, with the official Index of Industrial Production (IIP) registering a healthy 6.4 per cent year-on-year growth during January, compared to 3.8 per cent in the same month last year. According to the ... More

Cricket doesn't Max the papers at SET
AT Sony Entertainment Television (SET), the cricket-driven high in channel viewership does not revive the old debate of having a sports channel. "I still don't see potential for it,'' Mr Rajat Jain, Executive Vice-President, SET Max India Pvt ... More