A step forward on divestment
Some progress was made by the CCD at its Saturday meeting. With its decisions on Maruti Udyog Ltd and IPCL, the government made some headway in the direction of big-ticket divestments.

LIC looks for cover
On the face of it, it seemed just another routine division meeting at Jeevan Prakash, the New Delhi Division I headquarters of the LIC, last Tuesday.

Smart cards still to make a mark in India
The little chip is changing everything, especially the way people pay. In Singapore, a single stored-value smart card can pay for public telephone calls, for parking, electronic road tolls and everything that the greenback can buy at the myriad shopping malls.


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