One Front Page, Lot of Good News
Posted : April 21, 2006 at 11:14 pm [IST]
April 21, 2006
Reliance Petro IPO creates record. Mukesh Ambani’s Rs 2700 crore retail offer received bids worth Rs 137000 crore, an over subscription of over 50 times. The response, as reported, creates a record of sorts for any public offering not just in India but across the world. $28 billion in bids for the offering is the highest ever subscription for any issue in world. (NTT DoCoMo in 1998 did $18.3 billion, and AT&T Wireless services in 2000 got $10.6 billion.)
Sensex strikes 120000: In the last five sessions- since its April 13 intra-day low at11,008 - the sensex has added a little over 1,000 points, making it the sharpest rally ever.
Airport Express: IGI to CP in 20 min flat. The airport will be connected by a high speed Metro link just like Heathrow Express in London that takes a passenger from the airport to central London (Paddington station) in just 15 minutes.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is now No. 1 Dhoni gets crowned as the world’s No.1 One-Day batsman on Thursday last unseating Australia’s skipper Ricky Ponting in the ICC- ODI player rankings.
One Laptop Per Child OLFC representative gave a presentation of the project at the planning commission. And if HRD agrees, a laptop for every one of our illiterate kids is a possibility. Global majors are helping in getting the $100- Laptop, the dream project of MIT’s Negroponte, author of bestseller ‘Being Digital’ developed. And the price would go down to $50 by 2010. The configuration almost matches with the best in the market.
Is it not the resurging India that we love to see?
- Indra
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