TOP HEADLINES
• ONGC keen to manage oilfields on Enron exit
• Sebi bars Bajoria from accessing markets
• ONGC Videsh plans New York listing by 2005
• Toyota to launch Camry in India next year
• Opposition flays govt on telecom deals
• FIs may seek Centre's help for DPC contracts
• India asks ILO to focus on job-creation
• Govt clears FDI proposals worth Rs 8.80 bn
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CORPORATE HEADLINES
• BSES clarifies on news item
• FAG Bearings denies news item
• Binani Industries clarifies on news item
• German Remedies gets new Chairman
• Compudyne Winfosystems awarded ISO 9001
• German Remedies announces board change
• Members of Khandwala Securities OK merger
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COLUMN
When everybody else takes pay-cuts, our netas get a hike
'The raise to 790 super-privileged persons is resented by most of India's billion-strong population,' says Sucheta Dalal.

MARKET REPORT
Infosys leads 12 point fall in Sensex
Selling pressure in select old as well as new economy stocks. Infosys down 5%. Cement pivotals end in the red.

STOCK TALK
'Most traders lose money'
'It is a tough period and no one is making money by sitting. However it will pass. India still retains an edge in IT and I believe that,' says Ramesh Shrichand Damani.

DAILY TECHNICALS
Trading strategy for August 30, 2001
Sensex, Satyam, Wipro, Reliance, Dr Reddy... Check out what you can do on Thursday.

INTERVIEWS
'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'

'WTO cannot be blamed for our inaction'
'We have been sleeping over the inevitable challenges that we knew would arise out of signing the WTO pact. But there's no point in looking back. We should pull up our socks now,' says
Dr M S Swaminathan.

'A new WTO round will be useful'
'India can play a more effective role if it joins the negotiations soon,' says US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.

THE BUDGET & GOVT POLICIES
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