Patil - a visionary who modernised markets
Some time in March 1993 when Dr RH Patil and a team of five from the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) began working on the creation of a NSE, nobody in the government or the capital market system gave them even an outside chance of real success.



No changes in I-T rates -- Sinha
Finance minister Yashwant Sinha has ruled out any changes in the income-tax rates in the next Union Budget, stating that they were already at moderate levels. The government, Sinha said, would introduce the FRA and other important economic legislation in the winter session.



Sell-off race revs up with Maruti sale
Unmindful of the scathing attack the Congress and some of its own allies are planning on its privatisation policies in Parliament, the BJP-led Government on Saturday pushed forward with its aggressive sell-off plans.



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