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22 December 2006

FDI inflows touch 6.1 bn dollar in April-Oct periodForeign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into the country witnessed a 134.62 per cent jump in April-October 2006 to touch 6.1 billion dollar as compared to 2.6 billion dollar in the same period last year. In October 2006, FDI inflows stood at 1.7 billion dollar as compared to 0.412 billion dollar received in the same month last year.Services, electrical equipment, cement and gypsum, drugs and pharmaceuticals and hotel and tourism are the five major sectors that received FDI inflows in October 2006. Two-thirds of the investment (1.1 billion dollar) during October 2006 came from Mauritius . The Netherlands , the US and Cyprus are the major countries from where inflows have been received. The top inflows in October 2006 came from SDC Mauritius (517 million dollar, financial services through Indian partner Kappa industries), Oracle Global (349 million dollar, software), EMMAR MGF (150 million dollar, real estate), Cementrum IBV, Netherlands (124 million dollar, cement and gypsum), and Carraro SA (25 million, dollar agricultural machinery).Mr Kamal Nath pointed out that most of major investments made in October 2006 were first-mile investments and expressed confidence that there would be more investments from these investors in the next one year. The Delhi regional office of the RBI registered inflows of 727 million dollar, accounting for 43 per cent of the total inflows during October 2006. Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai are the other major regions that have received FDI inflows.------------ --------- --------- ------Triple threat targets Word usersUsers of Microsoft Word are being urged to be careful as malicious hackers target the word processing software. Three unpatched bugs in Word have been uncovered in the last few weeks and two are already being exploited by attackers.The loopholes being exploited allow attackers to create booby-trapped documents that steal info rmation or take over a PC when they are opened. Microsoft has yet to release patches to fix the bugs in the Word software.Information about the latest problem in Word was posted only a couple of days after Microsoft released its latest security update. Over the last year malicious hackers have taken to releasing code soon after the regularly-scheduled monthly Microsoft security update to give them the biggest chance to abuse it before a patch appears.So far the latest Word exploit, which revolves around the way the info rmation describing formatting is handled, is only a proof-of-concept flaw but Symantec and McAfee have confirmed that it will work. Abusing the flaw could allow attackers to take over a PC or run malicious code on a compromised machine.The latest flaw joins two others that Microsoft has acknowledged are already being exploited in attacks which it describes as limited and targeted.To avoid falling victim it said: users should always exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown sources.Malicious Word documents exploiting one bug discovered in early December are known to have been spammed out to firms in Asia . Together the three vulnerabilities are found in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, Office 2003, Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 for Mac, and Word v. X for Mac and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006.Microsoft pointed out that to fall victim to the attacks users must receive and then open a booby-trapped Word document. On its security blog Microsoft said it was actively investigating the three problems and would release patches when work was complete.------------ --------- --------- --------FII ActivityThe gross equity purchased was Rs.1,580.10 (in crores), and the gross debt purchased was Nil. The gross equity sold was Rs.2,253.50 (in crores), and the gross debt sold was Nil. The net investment of equity was Rs.(-) 673.40 (in crores), and the net debt investment was Nil.

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