MARKET REPORT
Sensex soars 96 points
RIL hits 10% upper limit. Hindustan Zinc up 20%. IPCL up 10%. VSNL up 8%. Cement shares gain.

TOP HEADLINES
• IA slaps insurance premium on fares
• 'Reddy panel report on interest rates soon'
• Exports up by 2.2% in first quarter
• Rupee weakens marginally to 47.87/$
• Ramadorai new chief of Indo-US Society
• Broker Nirmal Bang dies in road accident
• Tech incubator eyes high-value biz
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CORPORATE HEADLINES
• Voltas Switchgear no more Voltas subsidiary
• Reliance Industries Q2 results on October 31
• Reliance Petro Q2 results on October 30
• Pantaloon Retail FY01 net up 30.11%
• ITIL SQ-01 net drops 99.50%
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DAILY TECHNICALS
Trading strategy for October 1, 2001
Sensex, Wipro, Ranbaxy, Zee, Dr Reddy... check out what you can do on Monday.

STOCK TALK
'Sensex will hold at 2500 points'
'If it breaks that barrier, it may plunge to 1980 points. It could be a long slump if the govt does not wake up', says Ramesh Shrichand Damani.

COLUMNS
Should the media be more restrained in its reportage?
We need more maturity in reporting, tighter editorial control and some introspection by the media,' says Sucheta Dalal.

Ten things India should do
Don't brood over how hard the economy would be hit following the US attacks, says Mahesh Nair and suggests a 10-point action plan for India.

SPECIAL REPORT
What the investor can do in this market
Analysts opine that investors must not panic. The advice from the experts is: stay invested, buy gold or bet on futures.

REPORT
Hidesign: A truly global Indian brand
Dilip Kapur's Hidesign products have a booming market the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, South Africa and many Scandinavian and Asian nations.

INTERVIEWS
'India has adopted CMM faster than any other nation'
The guru of the capability maturity model, Dr Bill Curtis, who designed People-CMM, says that companies who adopt this model are better suited to facing the economic slowdown.

'India must get the world to condemn what the US is doing with patents'
'If Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights is to be a binding treaty, then the Convention on Biological Biodiversity must be an equally binding treaty. The Americans must be forced to accept it,' says Suman Sahai, Convener, Gene Campaign.
'We have resoundingly lost the basmati case'

THE BUDGET & GOVT POLICIES
The Rediff Budget Special: Full coverage
Rail Budget 2001-2002: Full coverage
Credit Policy 2001-2002: Full coverage
Exim Policy 2001-2002: Full coverage
Economic Survey 2000-2001: Full coverage