Centre may mop up Rs 8,000 cr extra revenue
The Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha is likely to mop up an additional Rs 8,000 crore revenue from crude oil and petroleum products this year, now that oil prices show no signs of abating at home and abroad.

Tirupur knitwear industry thinks really big for quota-free regime
Tirupur, the knitwear phenomenon in Tamil Nadu, is gearing up to face global competition once a quota free regime is unleashed by January 1, 2005.

Liberalisation strains manufacturer, trader relations in steel segment
Steel manufacturers and traders, considered to be a part of the big steel family and therefore, inseparable till recently, are realising that liberalisation is slowly straining their relations.


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  Cardamom growers bank on export orders
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