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Qatar and Australia are likely to supply fuel for restarting the $3 billion Dabhol Power Project in Maharasthra from the fourth quarter of 2006.
00 hours. The overall investors' wealth, measured in terms of valuation of all listed stocks, was down by nearly Rs 6 lakh crore in early morning trade, from nearly Rs 111.44 lakh crore at the end of Tuesday's trade.
'Tinkering will not do. Merely staggering spectrum dues comes nowhere near solving the problem,' cautions Rahul Khullar.
Gas Authority of India, PowerGrid and RailTel on Friday joined hands to pool in telecom infrastructure to become India's second largest broadband service provider with plans to venture into STD and ISD services in future.\n\n
Metal shares were the top gainers with Hindalco up over 5%.
The government is mulling hiving off ONGC Videsh Ltd, India's flagship firm for overseas oil asset acquisition, from Oil and Natural Gas Corp into a separate entity to be owned jointly by public sector oil firms.
The markets opened in red on the back of weak global cues
British firm BG Group has opposed the government's move to take its share of production from gas fields in kind saying it will distort level playing field and give unfair advantage of state-run gas utility, GAIL India Ltd.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 165 points at 29,044 and the 50-share Nifty gained 54 points to close at 8,834.
Mutola, 31, surpassed the five indoor world titles held by Cuban long jumper Ivan Pedroso to etch her name in history.
Broader markets outperformed benchmark indices with BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap up 0.5% and 0.6%.
The other semifinal match-up will be between Febi Widhiyanto of Indonesia and Malaysian Yew Ming Si.
Pooling will also kick-start projects of Reliance Power, Torrent, Lanco.
The US-based Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji to win the ITF Satellite title.
With only the first three sure to qualify for Saturday's semi-finals, Devers squeezed through as the fourth next-fastest.
State-owned refiner Indian Oil Corp and its exploration partner Oil India Ltd plan to bid for two onshore oil and gas exploration blocks in Myanmar.
For first time in 8 yrs, stake sale proceeds could exceed Budget Estimates. ONGC's acquisition of HPCL alone could get the exchequer more than Rs 30,000 crore.
Telecom monolith Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is the top profit-making public sector unit, while steel giant Steel Authority of India Limited had the dubious distinction of topping the list of loss making state-owned enterprises.
Petronet LNG Ltd will sell India's first liquefied natural gas from January next at around $3.6 per million BTU (British Thermal Unit), almost the same price as that of the private domestic natural gas producers.
Petronet LNG Ltd will seek equity in Ratnagiri Gas and Power Ltd, a JV between NTPC and GAIL for restarting the Dabhol Power Plant, in view of sourcing LNG to the beleagured plant.
Sentiments turned somewhat weak towards the middle of the session as profit-booking emerged as investors turned cautious on disappointing quarterly earnings by some bluechip companies
Oil and Natural Gas Corp will pay Rs 1025 crore (Rs 10.25 billion) to the state-run oil retailing firms for the losses they suffered during the second quarter for selling LPG and kerosene below the cost.
