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Markets: Life at 6,000
Mumbai: The BSE Sensex made gained 46.06 points (or 0.77 per cent) to close the day at 6,009.86 points. The S&P CNX Nifty recorded a gain of 19.25 points (or 1.03 per cent) to close the day at 1,892.60 points.

Market Gainers
Infosys Technologies, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, ITC, ONGC Corporation, HDFC, Sun Pharma, ITC, ABB, Colgate, Tata Power, GE Shipping, Ashok Leyland, Jindal Vijayanagar Steel, UTI Bank, IFCI

Market Losers
Hindustan Lever, IPCL, Reliance Energy, Hero Honda, Bank of India, IOB, Ingersoll Rand, Asian Paints, Nicholas Piramal, SBI Home Finance, ITI, Clutch Auto, GIC Housing, Tata Metalik, Asian Electronics

Market Counters
BSE 30

Figures in Rupees
Gain (+) / Loss (-)

ACC 284.50 +7.85
Bajaj Auto 991.10 +5.30
Bharti Televentures 164.05 +2.75
BHEL 617.70 +6.60
Cipla 267.35 +5.30
Dr. Reddys Laboratories 791.10 +4.55
Grasim Industries 1,125.10 +14.85
Gujarat Ambuja 363.70 +5.20
HDFC 729.30 +3.00
HDFC Bank 486.80 +3.40
Hero Honda Motors 439.05 -3.80
Hindalco Industries Limited 1,283.95 +8.55
Hindustan Petroleum Corp 339.75 +3.25
HLL 130.20 -1.80
ICICI Bank 325.40 +2.55
Infosys Technologies 2,030.75 +4.40
ITC 1,192.30 +46.80
Maruti Udyog 386.90 +9.20
MTNL 125.90 -0.90
ONGC 803.25 +12.75
Ranbaxy Labs 1,060.70 +7.10
Reliance Energy 598.15 -7.40
Reliance Industries 528.30 -4.50
Satyam Computer Services 427.45 +7.90
State Bank Of India 516.20 +1.85
Tata Motors 444.60 +13.10
Tata Power 345.35 +9.40
TISCO 311.60 +1.45
Wipro 715.25 +5.10
Zee Telefilms 161.20 +4.10

Others
RS Software hit the upper circuit closing at Rs31.50
KLG Systel up 9.96 per cent at Rs 107.60
Prism Cements up Rs1.93 at Rs 15.06
Ispat Industries up Rs1.48 at Rs 17.57
Amtek Auto up Rs7.65 at Rs184
Reliance Capital down Rs2.20 at Rs143.05.
Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd down Rs4.65 at Rs79.50
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Reliance director Bhakta resigns -CMD Mukesh says he's the final authority
Mumbai: The Reliance controversy took a fresh turn with the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Ltd, Mukesh Ambani, e-mailing his 80,000 employees a statement that employees of the Reliance group, he said: "Our Founder Chairman Dhirubhai Ambani had taken all necessary steps to separate ownership from management and has settled all of them within his lifetime. There is no ambiguity in his legacy that the Chairman-and-Managing-Director is the final authority on all matters concerning Reliance."

The reference to the 'Chairman and Managing Director' is understandably to himself. The day was also marked by the resignation of M.L. Bhakta as Director on the board of Reliance Industries, a position he has held for the last 27 years.

No reason was attributed to the resignation of Mr Bhakta, who is a partner with solicitors Kanga & Co.
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Cholamandalam AMC to launch dividend yield scheme
Mumbai: Cholamandalam AMC Ltd has filed an offer document for launching its Dividend Yield Fund with Securities and Exchange Board of India.

According to the offer document, Chola's open-ended equity fund seeks to provide capital appreciation income by investing predominantly in equity and equity-related securities of a well-diversified portfolio of companies that have a relatively high dividend yield.

The fund would invest 80-100 per cent of its corpus in equity and equity-related instruments and up to 20 per cent in cash and money market instruments.

Entry load of two per cent is charged on investments of less than Rs25 lakh and 2 per cent exit load is also charged for redemptions within a year through the systematic investment and transfer plans.

The issue is priced at Rs10 per unit and the minimum investment amount is Rs5,000, says the offer document.
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Bharati Shipyard IPO price band fixed at Rs55-66
Mumbai: Bharati Shipyard Ltd, one of India's leading shipyards in the private sector, is entering the capital market on December 2 with an IPO of 1.25 crore equity shares of face value Rs10 each at a price band of Rs55 to Rs66 per share through 100 per cent book-building route.

The issue, which will constitute 55.56 per cent of the fully diluted post-issue paid-up capital of the company, is to part finance its Rs65-crore expansion programme.

The expansion project includes increasing its shipbuilding capacity from the present 9,000 DWT to 25,000 DWT and construction of a new jetty.

Out of the present issue, 10 per cent of the shares are reserved for allotment to permanent employees of the company, 50 per cent for allocation to qualified institutional buyers on discretionary basis, 25 per cent for non-institutional bidders and 25 per cent for retail individual bidders.

The company had notched up an income and net profit of Rs121.70 crore and Rs5.9 crore respectively in the last fiscal.

In the first six months of the current fiscal, the company's income was Rs98.90 crore and net profit Rs14.4 crore, the increase being mainly due to the surge in shipbuilding market as a result of the buoyant freight market.

The company was in the business of building tugs, offshore vessels, cargo vessels and bitumen tankers. Its top-drawer clients include Great Eastern Shipping, Halul Offshore Services, Reliance Industries, Tartous Port Trust and Al Jabar Shipping Establishment.

"Our current order book consists of 12 vessels valued at a total of Rs 422.60 crore. We expect to increase our flow of orders in the coming months due to buoyancy in the market," he pointed out.
Mr Kapoor said the company was in the process of acquiring Pinky Shipyard Ltd at Goa, which was expected to be wrapped up within a month.
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