UB Global Corp bags Impresa'99 award
The Impresa'99 awards for the best contribution to Indo-Italian trade relations instituted jointly by the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Business Publications Division of The Indian Express group.

PM promises quicker reforms
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Saturday promised legal and administrative changes to widen India's eight-year-old economic reform programme, taking the process well beyond its initial diet of deregulation.

Tariff cut eats into profits of public sector telecom companies
Although the economy is on the upswing and most corporates have posted better results, net income of state-owned telecom companies VSNL and MTNL have dipped in second quarter of the fiscal.

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