INTERNATIONAL Japanese differ on fall in unemployment rate Tokyo: Japan's jobless rate improved in January for the first time in nearly a year but the workforce shrank by its largest margin since 1974 and ministers on March 1 warned the situation remained bleak.
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Five Indians in Forbes list of billionaires New York: Five prominent Indians – Azim Premji, Dhirubhai Ambani, Kumarmanagalam Birla, Lakshmi Mittal and Shiv Nadar figure in the coveted list of world's top 500 billionaires, according to Forbes magazine.
'I feel guilty for pegging fiscal deficit at 5.3 per cent' New Delhi: Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on March 1 admitted that he was feeling "guilty" of pegging the fiscal deficit at 5.3 per cent of GDP for next year in the Budget, but said it was sustainable as the balance had been struck between demand and fiscal consolidations to reverse the economic slowdown..
Budget well crafted, forward looking: RBI chief Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Bimal Jalan on February 1 termed the Union Budget for 2002-03 as "extremely well crafted, reformist and forward looking".
SENSEX gains as scrips rally smartly on BSE Mumbai: After having hit hard on February 28 from disappointing Budget, stocks under
the lead of HLL and ITC made a dramatic comeback with a smart rally in the SENSEX at early stages on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on March 1 on hectic buying support from investors.
