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SAT sets aside insider trading charge against Pendse, wife
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has set aside charges of insider trading against Dilip Pendse, former managing director of Tata Finance, and his wife Anuradha Pendse and Nalini Properties.

Sunil Jain: Connecting Bharat
The budget is big on rural India and allocations for the Bharat Nirman project, for instance, have been hiked 45 per cent over those allocated in Budget 2008-09 — within this, allocations for projects like the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana have been hiked 59 per cent. While that’s all very well, it would be a good idea to see what’s happening on the government’s plans for connecting rural India, not by roads but by telephones. As compared to urban areas where around 90 per cent of people have phones, tele-density is just around 15 per cent for rural India.

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Oil Marketers : Margins may slip
With the government yet to decide on whether prices of petrol and diesel will be freed, oil marketing companies run the risk of losing money on retail sales.
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Hero Honda to upgrade its models to meet BS-III norms

The country"s largest two-wheeler maker Hero Honda today said it will upgrade all its existing models to meet Bharat Stage-III emission compliant norms by the end of this financial year. - Volkswagen eyes 10% pie in Indian passenger car market - Eicher Motor to invest Rs 95 cr in India - Japanese automakers report output, export plunges in July - ManForce Motor plans to sell 4,200 units this fiscal - Mitsubishi"s HCV arm looks to enter India in 2-3 yrs - M&M looks to make US largest export market for SUVs, pick-ups "All bikes will be upgraded to BS-III by March 2010... some models already meet the norms, while the rest will be changed with some minor modifications," Hero Honda Motors Managing Director Pawan Munjal told reporters on the sidelines SIAM annual convention here. The company is also looking to launch a model which will be priced lower than its least expensive bike (100cc segment). "We have been seriously thinking for a low-priced product but very high in performance. Our engineers along with those from Honda are working on this," Munjal said. In the ensuing festive season, he said the company is confident of selling over six lakh units that it had sold in the same period last year.


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