Balco's a good deal -- PM pushes for PSU reforms
With Parliament set to debate the Balco sale next week, Prime Minister AB Vajpayee sent a strong reforms signal defending the Balco decision as a ``good agreement.''



Fiscal deficit's not the only hole in the budget
Most irritating thing about the common man, economist Kaushik Basu wrote many years ago, is that despite all these years of `common man's budgets', he still manages to remain so common! Not surprisingly, for much of what is traditionally mouthed as `for the common man' hardly ever reaches him.



BSE shifts another 34 `B1' scrips to `A' group
One day after the benchmark Sensex crashed by 140 points, the BSE has decided to shift 34 scrips in `B1' group including VSNL and HCL Technologies, to the specified group `A' from March 26.



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