• Assocham: India Inc CEOs disappointed with Mumbai's disaster management
• VSNL and Reliance amicably settle bandwidth issue
• Bharti likely to outsource BPO operation
• Tata Tele launches pocket PC phone
• Tata's dub BSNL's demand for ADC as illegal
• CBI case in Centaur sale this week
• Toyota conducting feasibility study for entry into the small car segment
• NMDC pays Rs.99 crore dividend to Centre for 2004-05
• Hutch launches HutchMail

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• Iran minister plays down US sanctions threat on India-Iran gas pipeline
• Natwar: India will go ahead with fence on Bangla border
• Kamal Nath: Indo-Pak trade up 76 per cent at US$600mn
• ICRA: VAT design suffers from major flaws

• RBI: Policy framework necessary for MFIs entry into non-credit financial services
• SIDBI to set up credit rating agency exclusively for SMEs
• RBI announces interest rates on floating rate bonds
• Basel II norms: Execution cost to trigger M&A moves in the Indian banking system
• LIC aims at 50 per cent business growth for the fiscal

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