VSNL to consolidate telephony and NLD -- SK Gupta
In September 2000, Shailendra Kumar Gupta completed one year as the chairman and managing director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited. A gold medallist from the Rourkee University, Mr Gupta rose through the ranks at the DoT in the more than 30 years that he spent there.

TiE to hold conference in Mumbai
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the Silicon Valley-based network of entrepreneurs and professionals which had started its activities in India last year, plans to hold the first TiE conference in India - TiEcon India 2000 - here later this month.

Regulations must meet demands of technological changes
The computer age denigrates and belittles human effort. For instance, the great chess players of the world are dwarfed, they are longer the intellectual giants we always took them to be. You must have read a year ago that a computer recently defeated the world chess champion - as a result, we now think less of chess as a game of skill!