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The Financial Express daily newsletter
Edition of Sunday, December 05, 2004
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THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS ON SUNDAY
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TODAY'S TOP STORIES
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Cheaper $makes importers smile exporters run for cover
The recent action in the foreign exchange market says it all. While exporters
scrambled for cover, importers gleefully watched the Indian rupee strengthen
against the greenback. What�s the denouncement of market players on
dollar-rupee? If the momentum in the domestic stock market is sustained by
investments by foreign investors and the greenback continues to rule weak
against major global currencies, the rupee is seen appreciating to 43.50 to the
dollar by the end of this calendar year.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76020
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PM: affirmative action on infrastructure from industry
The government has decided to set up a standing committee of officials and
industry representatives to suggest changes in archaic regulatory laws
concerning the financial sector, factory regulation and Companies Act in line
with international best practices.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76021
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Hollywood film financier set to bankroll Bollywood
One of Hollywood�s biggest financiers has decided to stand guarantor for bank
loans of Indian filmmakers, but says producers here must change their style of
functioning if they want his services in the long run.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76022
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Indo-Russian pact on IT ties
India and Russia agreed to set up a working group to draw up an
inter-governmental agreement on information technology, Russia�s IT minister
Leonid D Reiman said on Saturday.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76023
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BOTTOMLINE: Asian governments now offer paternity leave
A couple of days ago, a Japanese city municipal council announced that it will
now require its male employees to take a total of six weeks� paid leave before
their babies� first birthdays, as reported by the news agency AFP..
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76024
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Focus
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Money in the Mouth
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76003
More in Focus at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/focus.html
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Small Scale
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The silent contributors
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=75998
Country Notebook
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=75999
More in Small Scale at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/smallscale.html
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In Person
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High on design
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76007
Visionary zeal
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76008
More in In Person at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/inperson.html
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Bookmark
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Nixing the noxious weed
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76001
Indian banking demystified
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76004
More in Bookmark at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/bookmark.html
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Common Cause
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Powering the otherwise-abled
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76000
A blend of business and responsibility
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76002
More in Common Cause at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/commoncause.html
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Habitat
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Property sale attracts capital gains tax
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76017
Loo in Tokyo
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76015
More in Habitat at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/habitat.html
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Leisure Class
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The bottomline of marriage
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76010
Krav Maga or kick boxing?
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76011
More in Leisure Class at
http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/leisureclass.html
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After Eight
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Ordering secrets
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76014
Scampi scampers
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76013
More in After Eight at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/aftereight.html
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Executive Sport
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A ride past the clouds
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76019
Hitting out
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76018
More in Executive Sport at
http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/executivesport.html
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News
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India-bashing on outsourcing totally unjustified: IMF
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76027
UK NRIs to set up modern hospital in West Bengal
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76029
More in News at http://www.financialexpress.com/sunday/news.html
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FE INVESTOR
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Little cash back on card offers
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76030
In search of a Sensex peak
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76032
�Compact disc prices should move up�
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=76045
More in Back Page at http://www.financialexpress.com/investor/index.html
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