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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (358)	3/9/2000 8:08:00 PM
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FIs may find fund raising tough via private placement Term-leading institutions IDBI and ICICI Ltd will find it tough to raise funds through private placement in fiscal 2000-2001 as the RBI has directed commercial banks to treat subscription to institutional bonds as part of their exposure limit. financialexpress.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (358)	3/9/2000 8:14:00 PM
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LIC Housing cuts rates by 25 to 175 basis points -ICICI to wait licindia.com licindia.com Manju AB Mumbai, March 9: Close on the heels of the Housing Development & Finance Corporation cutting the home-loan rates, LIC Housing Finance on Thursday reduced the interest rates on home loans and merged three loan slabs into a single slab of Rs 25,000 to Rs 50 lakh. The quantum of cut ranges between quarter of a percentage point (25 basis points) and 175 basis points. Other players in the segment including ICICI, however, preferred to wait and watch. A senior executive of ICICI Home Loans said: "We do not want to drop interest rate on our retail products in a hurry. It may take us another week to revise our rates." financialexpress.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (358)	3/10/2000 3:23:00 PM
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Mumbai High Court Rejects Application Against ICICI Regarding Domain Name Registration MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2000--In a landmark judgement in the cyber world, a one judge bench presided by Hon'ble Justice D.K. Deshmukh of the Mumbai High Court today rejected the application filed by Investsmart India Limited, a subsidiary of IL&FS Limited, against ICICI Limited (NYSE:IC - news and IC.D - news), the premier financial institution in India. According to Mr. Virendra Trivedi, the counsel appearing on behalf of ICICI, ``an application made by the Plaintiffs above-named for an ad-interim injunction order inter-alia restraining ICICI from operating any business and/or selling or offering for sale or advertising or in any manner dealing in any services or goods on the Internet or otherwise or from in any manner using in relation to the Internet or otherwise, the word/mark/domain name 'WWW.INVESTMARTINDIA.COM`` or any word/mark/domain name which is identical with or deceptively similar to or a colourable imitation of, the Plaintiffs' mark and/or registered domain name 'WWW.INVESTSMARTINDIA.COM`` was rejected by His Lordship the Hon'ble Mr. Justice D.K. Deshmukh today.' Mr. Trivedi said that while rejecting the said application the Hon'ble Court considered the following submissions made on behalf of ICICI: a) That the application filed by Investsmart India Ltd. does not make out any prima facie case against ICICI Ltd. and that there already existed a prior registrant in the name of "WWW.INVESTSMART.COM" owned by a third party prior in time. b) That since the domain name of the plaintiffs, "WWW.INVESTSMARTINDIA.COM" was purely descriptive in nature and not distinctive (such as "WWW.REDIFF.COM", "WWW.YAHOO.COM", etc.), it would in fact hurt the public at large if a single party was given an unfair monopoly over the use of the words "invest", "mart", and "India". c) That 89 examples of international precedents wherein similar sounding domain names are simultaneously existing and are owned by different parties. The judge passed a detailed order in the matter, which will be made available in a few days. For further queries: Contact Mr. A.P. Singh on +91-22-6536262 or email to singhap@icici.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: ICICI Ltd. A.P. Singh, +91-22-6536262 singhap@icici.com biz.yahoo.com