Wockhardt H1 net up 7% to Rs 39 crore
Wockhardt has registered a 7.4% increase in net profit for the six months ended December 31, 1998, at Rs 39 crore as compared with Rs 36.3 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year.

ICICI Bank posts flat growth in net in Q3
ICICI Bank has posted 4.8 per cent growth in its net profit for the nine-month period ended December 31, 1998, at Rs 44.10 crore, up from Rs 42.10 crore in the corresponding period in the previous year.

Murugappa plans sale of non-core businesses
The Rs 2,900-crore Murugappa group expects to mop up about Rs 125 crore from sale of non-core businesses.

  Novartis reports two per cent rise in 1998 sales, upbeat for 1999
  Nissan talks leave everything open
  Qantas likely to post robust profits
  Smorgon expects to win 90 per cent of ANI
  Ford chief says no plan to invest in Nissan
  Autostrade sale seen after cellphone tender
  Monopoly law hangs over Indofood meeting
  AT&T may sell WorldNet to AtHome
  MSEB may be hardpressed to recover Dabhol power cost
  McDowell third-quarter net jumps 20% to Rs 4 crore
  Mitsubishi Chemical, Tokyo Tanabe to merge
  Ruhrgas to increase stake in gas firm
  Asia Today sues daily for Rs 500 crore damages
  Indo Gulf sees sales at Rs 1,625 cr in '98-99
  Philipine Airlines appoints new CEO
  Ashok Leyland Information Technology join hands with US firm
  Grasim ordered to close down CS2 plant in Kerala
  High ad costs pull down Madras Cements Q3 net by 69%
  Volumes growth drives up Swaraj Engines net by 43%
  Lalbhais script novel three-way merger blueprint
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