WORLD'S RICHEST MAN COMES CALLING
• Gates arrives on a 24-hour visit to Hyderabad
• Maharashtra seeks $16.5 mn aid from Gates
• Bill Gates in India: Complete Coverage

TOP HEADLINES
• Regulatory defects led to scam: Jaswant
• 4 Indian-Americans in WEF tech pioneers list
• Tata Steel to set up plant in S Africa
• Cellular subscriber base up 5.21% in Oct
• NCR to set up plant in Bangalore
• India, US plan high-tech co-operation group
• A K Purwar appointed new SBI chairman
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CORPORATE HEADLINES
• Voltas to tap China, Singapore markets
• IDBI Bank clarifies on media reports
• i-flex H1 net profit at Rs 892 million
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MARKET REPORT
Sensex ends flat; Wipro gains 3%
Selective recovery in tech stocks. ICICI Bank down 5.38%. HPCL, Infosys, RIL, ACC, Ranbaxy up.

DAILY TECHNICALS
Trading strategy for November 14, 2002
Sensex, Ashok Leyland, Cipla, Finolex Cables, Mirc Electronics... Check out what you can do on Thursday.

STOCK TALK
'Divestment program is over'
'Market needs new FII money to go up. But China has opened up to FIIs, which will drag money from India,' says Ramesh Shrichand Damani.

COLUMN

ECIL: A public sector success story
ECIL was able to achieve a turnaround in three years which is nothing short of spectacular, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.

So how credible is the Web?
Even cautious persons tend to believe everything they pick up on the Internet. Why? Does the Net enjoy more trustworthiness than it deserves, asks Sucheta Dalal.

PROFILE
Microsoft's Mr Technology
Anoop Gupta is one of the eight key people who interact with Gates ever since he took over the role of the chief software architect at Microsoft, writes Bhupesh Bhandari

PERSONAL FINANCE
Insurance with frills
ICICI Pru's LifeTime policy is a combination of a insurance policy and a mutual fund, writes Smita Tripathi.

INTERVIEW
'Gross national contentment is my aim'
Govt must endeavour to improve the tax-GDP ratio, continue to work extra time for fiscal consolidation and revive growth, says Jaswant Singh, Union Finance Minister.

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