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NATIONAL
Sensex rebounds by 111 points on hectic purchases
Stocks today (Aug 30, 2005) bounced back with a vengeance in the Bombay Stock Exchange, lifting the benchmark Sensex by a whopping 111 points on hectic purchases from Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and local mutual funds amid a possible hike in domestic fuel prices.

GE Healthcare Technologies bullish on market
Bullish on the Indian healthcare market, GE Healthcare Technologies is confident of doubling its annual revenues to USD 800 million in less than three years from its operations based out of Bangalore, a top company executive said today (Aug 30, 2005).

GE's Centre develops new high frequency X-ray
Engineers at GE's The John F Welch Technology Centre here have designed and developed a lap top sized digital high frequency X-ray system, an affordable,general radiographic system providing better image quality.

Sensex rallies by 79 pts during morning trading
The Bombay Stock Exchange's (BSE) benchmark 30-share Index (sensex) today (August 30, 2005) rallied smartly during morning trading on revival buying support amid reports that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advocated a hike in fuel prices in line with high global crude price.

Bid documents for Delhi, Mumbai airport today
The transaction document for restructuring and modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports is expected to be given out to the 8 shortlisted private bidders today (August 30, 2005), official sources said yesterday (August 29, 2005).

Captive BPOs pose a major threat to domestic Co's
Captive centres set up by Multi-National Corporations (MNC) in India are posing a serious threat to the domestic outsourcing companies.

INTERNATIONAL
Oil prices up to $68; market assess Katrina damage
Oil prices were today (Aug 30, 2005) inching higher in Asian electronic trading hours on worries that Hurricane Katrina might have inflicted heavy damage to US crude production facilities, dealers said.