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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
ICICI Home Finance to hold property show
ICICI Bank Home Loans and ICICI Bank Home Search, the property search division of ICICI Bank, will hold a three-day property exhibition at Hotel Samrat in the Capital from September 14 to 16. The exhibition, styled ICICI Bank Home Utsav, will ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS


Eco-tourism award for S. Muthiah
CHENNAI: SKAL International Chennai, the club run by travel agents, hoteliers and airlines, awarded its first Eco Tourism Award to noted historian and writer, Mr S. Muthiah. The club intends to present this award every year to those ... More

CHEMICALS


Alkali sector seeks cheap funds
THE Bhopal gas tragedy might have brought the domestic chemical industry into sharp focus. But the subsequent changes that were effected in environmental laws had been embraced by this segment of industry, Mr N.S. Ramachandran, President of ... More

ECONOMY


McKinsey move woos investors to Bengal
A SET of 10 investors are willing to invest in the food processing and ITES sectors in West Bengal, courtesy moves initiated by consultancy major McKinsey. These investors are currently working on ways to bring in the required capital for ... More

ENVIRONMENT


Conservation award for Chilka lake
NEW DELHI: Wetlands have always been a volatile issue, with greens accusing the authorities of not protecting them. But this time, it is a happy story, with Orissa's Chilka lake winning the international Ramsar Conservation Award for its ... More

HEALTH


  • NRIs keen to help healthcare units

    INFRASTRUCTURE


    Ministry mulls deregulation of petro product pipelines
    THE Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas is actively considering a proposal to deregulate the business of setting up petro product pipelines, according to official sources. Currently, new pipelines can be set up only after the board of Petronet ... More

    Rs 500-cr incentive fund to speed up urban reforms
    `The consensus was in favour of a shift from public ownership, public financing, public regulation to public ownership, private financing and independent regulation.' More

    Land acquisition Act likely to be amended
    THE Union Government plans to amend the land acquisition Act as part of a package to expedite the Central sector projects and create standing committees for monitoring projects, according to Mr Vijay Goel, Minister of State for Statistics and ... More

    PHARMACEUTICALS


    Insulin prices hiked; TB drugs to cost less
    CONSUMERS suffering from diabetes will have to pay more for their insulin, even as those requiring anti-tuberculosis drugs would be paying less, following the Centre's recent price revisions. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority ... More

    POWER


    KSEB panel for opening up small hydel plants
    The power-intensive industries operating in the State will be given priority while allocating the projects for implementation. More

    Poor power a drain on corporates: MAIT
    INDIA Inc could be losing over Rs 20,000 crore per year as a result of poor power quality and operating environment related downtime — estimated to be around two per cent of the gross output of the total industrial and services sector, ... More

    Raichur plant seventh unit gets ready
    THE seventh unit of the Raichur Thermal Power Station (RTPS) is headed for synchronisation with the completion of the boiler light up. The project being implemented by the State-owned utility, Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL), and the ... More

    TAXATION


  • Ecuador on slippery ground
  • Move to withdraw entry tax hailed

    MANAGEMENT


    Tips for India Inc to become world leaders
    PANELISTS at the technical session on the manufacturing sector at the All-India Management Association's meet were of the view that Indian companies could emerge as the world leaders in the sector. The team comprised Mr K. Jairaj, Vice-Chairman ... More

    CARS


    Cars sales up 14.7% in Aug
    BUOYED by heavy discounts and attractive loan schemes, passenger car sales increased by 14.7 per cent in August to 49,844 units from 43,457 units in the same month last year. The growth has been mainly on account of increasing sales of automobile ... More

    GEMS & JEWELLERY


    Dazzling display of jewellery
    A Rs 55-lakh `blouse' and a dazzling necklace with a price tag of Rs 1.5 crore; 23-carat gold fused into glass in the revived tradition of Thewa... All this and more are on show at the fourth edition of the Jewels of India expo, which opened ... More

    DISINVESTMENT


    Greenfield shadow over SCI sell-off
    THE controversial Greenfield Shipping deal in which Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) holds a 20 per cent stake worth $11 million has come to haunt the privatisation of the state-owned shipping line. The SCI board, at its meeting slated for ... More

    HMT sell-off put on hold, says Minister
    THE Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Mr Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, has said that the proposed disinvestment proposal of the HMT watch unit has been put on hold. Mr Patil told a press conference here that it was not the ... More

    FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT


    Kodak, GVK plans among Rs 212-cr FDI clearances
    THE UK-based Kodak Ltd's plan to increase its stake in the Indian subsidiary, Kodak India Ltd, from 74.76 per cent to 100 per cent involving foreign direct investment (FDI) worth Rs 99 crore has been cleared. This is among the 30 FDI proposals ... More

    N.K.Singh panel report on FDI — GoM to seek views of Ministries
    THE Group of Ministers (GoM) which met here on Thursday to study the Planning Commission's Steering Group Report on foreign direct investment (FDI) considered the necessary formalities to process the contents of the report with the assistance of ... More

    EVENTS


    Travel and tourism fair from today
    COIMBATORE: To familiarise the public about the unlimited exotic holiday opportunities in India, Travel Mall is organising a two-day event — Travel and Tourism Fair — at the Rathna Regent in Coimbatore on September 14 and ... More

    Seminar on export promotion
    COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (CODISSIA) is jointly organising with the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), New Delhi and SIDBI, a one-day seminar on `Export Promotion and Display of Foreign ... More

    EXPORTS & IMPORTS


    Textile, plantation sectors drag export growth — Modest growth in gem, jewellery, petro goods
    THE deceleration in export growth in the first two months of the current fiscal from 21 per cent in the previous month to 12.32 per cent was largely due to the negative export performance of textiles, plantation sector and only a modest growth in ... More

    NATURAL CALAMITIES


    Ajit Singh sees massive erosion in rural income
    EVEN as the South-West monsoon has staged a clear revival since around the middle of August, the Agriculture Minister, Mr Ajit Singh, today maintained that the current drought situation in the country was the "worst in the last century'' and ... More

    ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES


    Nursing Impcops back to financial health
    WHEN you are talking about Indian Medical Practitioners' Cooperative Pharmacy and Stores Ltd — Impcops, for short — you are referring to an organisation whose turnover is around Rs 10 crore and net worth at least four times that, but ... More

    TOURISM


    170 projects identified for tourism push
    The State Government had identified tourism as the third important sector after information technology and biotechnology for fuelling economic growth. More
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