The Economic Times Weekend Platter

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The ET Weekend Platter offers the round up of the news that you missed during the week. We bring to you the most-read news, investment corner, stock wrap-up, issue that hogged headlines, editor's picks and the most happening trend stories from across sectors, for you to savour at your conveniance. Happy reading. I-T dept slaps Rs 39K cr tax order on AV Birla Group cos The I-T dept has treated the transfer of licenses, assets & liabilities from ABTL to Idea Cellular as a slump sale on which capital gains arose. Facebook unveils ‘Home’ Android operating system Stating that the focus is on Android, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said, "We're not building a phone and we're not building an operating system." Govt removes control on sale of sugar in open market The govt has thrown open the sugar market, removing one of the last vestiges of the control era and continuing the burst of reforms. Story of the Week India the home to world's largest human capital pool: Rahul Gandhi Recounting his interactions with the common man, Gandhi said "India is bursting with dreams, optimism and brave ideas." Stock Round up Sensex continues falling trend; declines 57 points Sensex fell for the third straight day by losing over 57 points on sustained selling in blue-chip stocks such as ITC, HDFC ad ICICI Bank amid weak overseas trend. ET Features How Toyota brought its famed manufacturing method to India The culture of planning, inspecting and correcting is inherent in the portals of Toyota globally. And various permutation combinations work across these phases. Frooti gears to move to next phase of growth with new commercial The Rs 1500 cr brand is ready to move to its next phase of growth, in a world filled with competitors like Maaza, Slice and carbonated beverages. Personal Finance Ten life insurance funds beat Nifty with higher returns Ten funds managed by the life insurers have given better returns than the stock market benchmark index with gains of as high as 12.4% in the last fiscal. Is buying a house a good way to commit to long-term savings? Real estate as an investment will be suitable at a stage when income and cash flow are not a constraint in his financial situation. Corporate Trends Indian women professionals ahead of those in US, Germany,Japan The most startling figure is not that an overwhelming 91% of Indian women want to return to work but that so many 'succeed' in on-ramping, Hewlett said. Singapore seeks Indian IT, pharma investments: Official Singapore-based institutes are undertaking advanced levels of medical researches which would support Indian pharma companies' global market plans.		Visual Treat Editor's Pick The best and the worst cities of India Lesson from Ambanis: Get together smartly 20 stocks that can give over 20% returns in 2013 ITC, Cadbury vacating currency-friendly price tags Most Read Stories Gold to continue its downtrend for many years AirAsia offers 2 mn cheap tickets to SE Asia 1991 again? India slipping into danger territory Samsung sacrificing innovation to out-do Apple? US gets 50K packages of H-1B petitions on 1st day Offbeat World populations to stop growing in 2050? The population prospects between 1950 and 2100 provided by the UN were used to conduct the study published in the journal 'Simulation'. Letter to the editor E-currency can make central banks powerless? This week's "Poke Me", invited your comments to debate on 'E-currency can make central banks powerless'. Here are the selected opinions.

News by Industry
Infotech Facebook ChatHeads: A whole new world of messaging! Facebook cautiously intensifying battle vs Apple, Google?	Your Money Can stocks help you retire rich? Brace for harsher interest rate cuts on small savings
Auto Cars launched with great expectations but failed to deliver Car sales fall 20% in March despite record discounts	Taxes and You In India, dodging taxes is part of the game 'SUV tax below Rs 10 lakh should be reconsidered'

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