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Corporate Economy Expressions Markets Leisure 15 February 1998   Coimbatore burns as bomb blasts kill 32; flight delay saves Advani At least 32 people have been killed and around 100 injured as over nine key areas of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu were rocked by a serial bombing on Saturday evening. The bombings took place in a space of one hour, between 3.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. The Tamil Nadu government has banned two Islamic fundamentalist organisations and brought in the army into Coimbatore following the blasts.   SE Asia unleashes image-correction exercises Battered by the relentless media blitz charging over their economic slip-ups, some countries in Southeast Asia are fighting back. An avalanche of images is being unleashed through the audio-visual and print media to persuade foreign investors that the slide is not unstoppable. Malaysia and Thailand have taken the lead in this direction with strong campaigns claiming that they were well on the road to recovery. Vajpayee against foreign firms forming wholly-owned subsidiaries The Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate, AB Vajpayee, has said that the country needs to adopt a cautious approach to liberalisation. Addressing an election gathering in Nagpur, Vajpayee said that the BJP did not favour the formation of wholly-owned subsidiaries by foreign companies. He claimed that indiscriminate imports and mindless globalisation had left the local industry hamstrung. Colour TVs slash prices in a bid to stay in the black Colour television manufacturers -- domestic as well as multinational -- are gearing up to breach all price barriers this year. Prices are expected to tumble to all-time lows within all segments of screen sizes, but more so in the 20-inch and 21-inch categories as companies announce price cuts while introducing "economy" models targeted at the semi-urban consumers.   Sonia sharpens attack to take on communal forces Congress star campaigner Sonia Gandhi on Saturday sharpened her attacks against communal forces for dividing the country on the basis of religion, caste and creed and urged the people not to fall prey to such forces. Speaking at a mammoth rally in Buldhan, Maharashtra, Sonia alleged that these forces were fostering hatred among people and called upon them to vote for the Congress for a stable government and communal harmony. Economic crisis keeps experts on toes The Asian economic crisis has officials around the world scrambling to come up with new ways to stabilise the region's faltering currencies and tailor the approach of the IMF and World Bank, experts said on Friday. Most Southeast Asian countries, weary of huge sell-offs in their currencies, are mulling over a proposal to peg exchange rates to a basket of regional currencies, in a bid to effect an economic revival.     Majority may elude BJP; Congress, UF to control majority in the new LS   Poll Briefing   Executive Briefing   Maharashtra Briefing   State, traders at odds over shifting of steel trade to Navi Mumbai   "Outsourcing of IT important for companies"   Bank investments down by Rs 3,854 crore   Annan to send team to map Iraq presidential sites   Japanese mission to assess Indonesian situation   Rush to import gold may trigger bank war   Crisil withdraws fixed deposit ratings of NBFCs   Poll Briefing   Kamgar Aghadi pledges support to SP candidate   Charges, counter-charges galore in Chandigarh   Might will decide the right in fight between two Yadavs   Ulfa's poll boycott call to cast shadow in Assam   Divided opposition gives a clear edge to Congress in Meghala   Hazaribagh, Giridih areas in a battle of ballot vs bullet   Sonia is twelfth man of Cong team, says Sunil Shastri   Kalyan predicts landslide for BJP in UP   Minister confirms chances of violence in Bihar but blames it on land problems