PWG
blows up Orissa minister's house
Malkangiri:
Peoples' War Group activists blew up the house of Orissa minister
for cooperation Arabinda Dhali and partially damaged a police
outpost at Poteru, 20 kms from here. The minister was away at
Bhubaneswar at the time of the incident.
The PWG activists, active for the last few months in south Orissa,
arrived at the minister's house and ordered the people staying
there to vacate it. They then planted explosives and blew it up.
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Vajpayee
to inaugurate ISB
Hyderabad:
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will formally inaugurate the
Rs 250 crore Indian School of Business (ISB) here on Sunday. The
institute is billed as a world class management institute,
promoted by leading corporates from India and top-ranked business
schools in the world.
Built on 250 acres at Gachibowli on city outskirts, the
institution founded by a galaxy of world's corporate houses
including 23 Fortune-500 companies, has commenced offering three
courses including post-graduate programme in management, executive
education and doctoral programmes since July last.
Affiliated to US-based J L Kellogg graduate school of management
at Northwestern University and Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania, the institution has now 128 students including one
foreign student on its rolls.
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Country
to focus on agriculture reforms
New Delhi:
Finance minister Yashwant Sinha said on Sunday that the country
would now focus on introducing reforms in the agricultural sector,
deal with the fiscal crisis and increase collection of taxes.
Sinha was speaking at the
inaugural session at the India Economic Summit organised by the
Confederation of India Industry and the World Economic Forum.
Sinha said the priorities for him lay in the following areas:
Agriculture, fiscal situation, tax collections, reducing import
tariffs, improving financial market regulations and social sector.
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Toon
war hots up
New Delhi: Disney's
planned foray into India with a 24-hour Hindi channel has heated
up war among cartoon networks. Local market leader Cartoon Network
is gearing up for a showdown by reinforcing its Indian programmes.
Cartoon Network plans to step up Indian content by increasing the
duration of Hindi-feed from the present level of 9 hours to 16
hours in 2002. The channel currently airs a 24-hour English feed
along with two-hours in Tamil.
In a bid to further build upon the popularity of its cartoon
characters, the channel would be soon launching comic titles as
well as activity books. The network also plans to step up
acquisition of Indian content over the next one year.
Disney has been running programming blocks on various channels
such as Doordarshan, Sony and Zee over the last five years.
Given the positive response, the $26-billion Walt Disney group
would not only roll out its own 24-hour pay channel in Hindi by
early next year, but would also come out with merchandising
related to Disney characters through theme parks and stores. The
media giant has earmarked an investment of around $30 million for
its Indian plans.
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