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March 9, 2000

BUDGET 2000
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Celluloid world, corporates forge novel tie-upsCelluloid world, corporates forge novel tie-ups


Sinha open to 'review genuine shortcomings, problems and irritants' in Budget
''As far as the dividend tax is concerned, we feel it was necessary to impose this levy... Please live with it as it cannot be rolled back,'' the finance minister told the Indian industry. He also clarified that he won't pressurise the RBI to lower interest rates.

THE REDIFF BUSINESS SPECIALS

Back in form
A slew of stunning deals and lightning moves put the Tatas back in reckoning for the unofficial title of the Leader of Corporate India.

Thoughts for food
Agri experts decry India's silence on WTO issues.

Kellog prof to lead IT revolution in AP

Rakesh Mathur's Karma Yoga


Hail Sinha for offering a Budget for the new economy
"Yashwant Sinha has obviously made up his mind that the future of India lies not in the commodity economy of the past but in the ideas economy of tomorrow," says Pritish Nandy.

'Whatever happened to the mergers and acquisitions policy?'
Infosys Technologies chairman N R Narayana Murthy; Confederation of Indian Industry president Rahul Bajaj; Satyam Computers chairman R Ramalinga Raju; Ranbaxy Laboratories CEO D S Brar; AT & T India MD Virat Bhatia on the Y2K Budget. In Real Audio.

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The Rediff Jury's verdicts on Budget 2000

The Budget, in Real Audio
Listen to Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha.

NEWS

Biotech could transform Indian economy: Nobel laureate
Referring to Prime Minister Vajpayee's view that water supply to villages is more important than biotechnology, Prof Harold Varmus, president, US National Science Academy, said, "The advantages of every branch of science could give pure water to the population."

Bureaucracy and the 'art' of turning a gold mine into a useless pit
Faulty decisions by the government and its lax attitude towards implementing recommendations by committees led to Bharat Gold Mines Limited becoming a sick public sector undertaking.

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Budget 2000 Special
Run-up to Budget 2000
Move over Big Bull, KP is here: A profile of Ketan Parekh.
The Millennium Features
The NDA government and the economy
Economic sanctions special
More specials


'We actually thrive on paranoia': ICICI CEO K V Kamath on the survival game
'India needs a crisis to reform. We can't reform without a crisis': Economist Dr Subir Gokarn of the National Council for Applied Economic Research, on Budget 2000
'AOL-Time Warner type deals will happen in India': Telecom tsar Sunil Mittal, chairman, Bharti Enterprises, on the future of communications industry
Earlier Interviews


Dhirendra Kumar on Budget 2000 and mutual funds.
Dilip Thakore on the business-as-usual Budget
R C Murthy on Yashwant Sinha's attempt to 'bite the bullet'
Devangshu Datta on the confusing figures of fiscal deficit
Sucheta Dalal on cyber-crime and punishment

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