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Wednesday, April 22, 1998
  Ambience pips perks in determining output
Over the years the basic concept of harnessing social forces in an organisation to achieve corporate excellence has remained the cornerstone of good management practices. What has changed are the ways and means of driving a workforce to deliver its best.
  Science behind "Dolly the clone": Far-out possibilities
Over the last couple of weeks we have been examining the various career opportunities that have emerged in the last decade in areas of agriculture and animal husbandry. Today we look at a related field with enormous potential in almost every aspect of industrial and domestic life from agriculture and genetics to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and textiles. This is the research oriented field of Biotechnology.

Millennium bug: Indian software to help solve the problem
The millennium bug, which threatens to spell doom for the computer world in 600 odd days, offers India an opportunity to earn a whopping $6 billion by way of solutions to the Y2K or Year 2000 problem. As the clock strikes 12 on December 31, 1999, most computers around the world would go haywire with their in-built clocks going back a 100 years as they would read the new year as January 1, 1900 instead of January 1, 2000.
Foreign banks hope to cash in on Asia crisis
Even before Asia's economic crisis is over, foreign banks are already picking over the ruins looking for bargains. Brief cases and palm-top computers in hand, accountants from Wall Street and the city of London are visiting banks across Asia, examining their books, debt ratios and personnel files.


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Balmer Lawrie-Van Leer extends 1:1 rights offer by ten days
Balmer Lawrie-Van Leer has extended its 1:1 rights issue by ten days in view of the poor retail investor response. The Rs 11.85-crore issue, which was initially slated to close on April 15, will now close on April 25. The poor response to the issue is understandable as the company is charging a premium of Rs 5 when the scrip is trading below par.

ICSE to induct 10 members
Fourteen regional exchanges and the Inter-Connected Stock Exchange (ICSE) have decided to jointly market induction of 10 new members for each of these exchanges. ICSE has also made an application to NSDL for providing demat facility to members. To facilitate this, the exchange has applied to SEBI for a Rs 10-crore SGF.

 


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