trade advisory panel reconstituted
calcutta: the government has reconstituted the prime minister’s advisory council on trade. the new members are kumar mangalam birla, ratan tata, nusli wadia, mukesh ambani, n.r. narayana murthy, rahul bajaj and sanjeev goenka.

taib bank to introduce nse online trading
dubai: bahrain-based taib bank will introduce online trading for the national stock exchange. the bank has a significant presence in india through its merchant banking subsidiary, taib capital corporation, and a brokerage firm taib securities india. the bank’s vice chairman and chief executive officer iqbal mamdani said the bank is very excited about introducing online trading in indian stocks.

new economic advisory panel
new delhi: prime minister atal behari vajpayee has reconstituted the economic advisory council. four new members have been inducted while three have been dropped. the new members in the 12-member council, headed by the prime minister, are jagdish shettigar, bharatiya janata party’s economic cell chief, rakesh mohan of national council for applied economic research, ashok gulati and m. narasimham. the members who are dropped are arjun sengupta, ashok desai and g.v. ramakrishna.

the other members of the council are i.g. patel, p.n. dhar, montek singh ahluwalia, kirit parikh and amresh bagchi. brajesh mishra, principal secretary to the prime minister will be a member of the council, while n.k. singh, secretary to the prime minister, will be the member-secretary.