1,100 cos in Dental FairCOLOGNE: A total of over 1,100 companies from 35 countries are expected to participate in the International Dental Show in Cologne from April 13 to 17 next year. Almost all well-known suppliers of dental products will participate in the event, in the fair which is being organised by the Association of the German Dental Industry in Cologne along with the KolnMesse. The importance of the Cologne fairs can also be judged by the success of other events such as the International Baby to Teenage Fair here. This year's fair attracted around 12,000 buyers from 74 countries, and had 661 companies from 40 countries present fashions and hardware for kids.HP IndiaMUMBAI: Hewlett-Packard India said the company would continue to support its RISC processors into the next century and deliver significant performance improvements, while continuing work on the 64-bit Merced processor it is developing with Intel. Its commitment to RISC processors will continue even whenHewlett-Packard and Intel come out with the Madison in 2002.Micro FocusMUMBAI: Micro Focus India Private Limited has introduced a product to simplify the Euro conversion process for enterprise applications at Banktech '98. The tool, EuroSmart, saves time by reducing the manual review process and dependency on information systems and business analysts, Nitin Wagh, managing director, said.SensexMUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has said the revamped BSE-30 sensitive index announced on October 13, 1998 would be effective from November 16. The exchange informed investors that Sensex would open at the same level where it closed on November 13 (2976.12). During the trading session, the index calculation would take into account the four new scrips (Novartis India, Infosys Technologies, NIIT and Castrol India) and exclude the outgoing scrips (Arvind Mills, GE Shipping, Sail and IPCL).CRY cardMUMBAI: On the occasion of Children's Day, Citibank launched the "Citibank CRYCard" in association with Child Relief and You (CRY) and VISA. The first affinity card programme launched in India to benefit underprivileged children in India, the Citibank CRY Card works on a simple concept - Citibank, on behalf of the card holder, automatically donates a percentage of the card fee and a percentage of the retail transaction on the card to CRY.IDBI BankMUMBAI: IDBI Bank, promoted jointly by IDBI and SIDBI as a new generation private sector bank, has completed three year on November 13, 1998. The deposits of the bank grew from Rs 505 crore as on March 1997 to Rs 2515 crore as on September 1998 and the advances rose from Rs 495 crore to Rs 1175 crore during the same period. On its 3rd anniversary, the bank opened branches in Margao, New Panvel and Sarakki Lake (Karnataka).
