Core sector, markets package soon: PM
The government has finalised a package to boost the capital market, address key issues dogging the telecom sector, take up large projects in airports and highway sector and do away with needless clearances which companies are required to obtain from the government.

Government to shun joint book-building option for disinvestment programme
The centre is all set to drop the joint book-building exercise for the Rs 5,000-crore disinvestment programme and instead follow the Concor model and offload government holdings in four other public sector undertakings in the domestic market by March 1999.

Centre may drop account-falsification clause from money laundering bill
The government is likely to drop the controversial clause of falsification of accounts in the Prevention of Money Laundering Bill, 1998, following various representations from the corporate sector.

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