Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, November 07, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, November 07, 2002 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY ECONOMY Jaswant calls meet on fiscal situation WITH less than a month to go before the Finance Ministry kickstarts the 2002-03 Budget formulation exercise, the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, has decided to take stock of the Centre's fiscal situation, particularly on expenditure trends so ... More HEALTH US to give $120 m for India's AIDS fight THE US Government will be financing $120 million over the next five years to fight the spread of AIDS in India, according to the US Ambassador to India, Mr Robert Blackwill. Mr Blackwill said that in the past five years the American ... More INFRASTRUCTURE Coimbatore infrastructure under strain EVEN as the Mayor of Coimbatore and the Opposition parties are engaged in a slanging match over his performance during the first year in office, the citizens of the textile city are wondering whether it would lose the privilege of being one of ... More
Action plan mulled for Kerala capital PETROLEUM Soft global crude prices yield no gain for consumers WHEN crude stocks in the US rise, global crude prices soften. However, consumers in India have little to cheer from this development. For the past four weeks, US crude stocks have been rising, driving the Brent crude index, which was hovering at ... More POWER Power shortages may queer the pitch for VAT transition POWER shortages have become a new addition to the list of woes impeding the States' transition to the value added tax (VAT) regime. Sources said that in most States, power shortages have lead to severe shortfalls in tax revenue realisations, ... More TEXTILES Europe bans two more azo dyes IN a decision that will affect the textile and leather industry, a new directive issued by the European Communities has added two new Azo-dyes (amines) in its banned list of 20 such dyes. The two dyes added to the banned list are 0-anisidine ... More EDUCATION Karnataka: Five new training colleges for nurses BANGALORE: Karnataka will have five new nurses training colleges with three of them being proposed in Bangalore itself. The other two will be set up in Mangalore and Mysore. A decision to this effect was taken at the State Cabinet ... More PAPER, BOARD & NEWSPRINT Paper manufacturers seek steady raw material supplies EVEN as the domestic demand-supply gap for all varieties of writing and printing paper is feared to grow sharply over the coming years, large integrated paper mills are apprehensive about their survival in the long run unless effective steps are ... More READYMADE GARMENTS A readymade advantage Textile majors have snapped up smaller readymade garment brands for more well-rounded potrfolios. Catalyst looks at the trend. More GENDER Careers start from home, say celebrities BOTH are very successful people with totally different images. But Ms Kiran Bedi and Ms Roopa Kudva have the same bit of advice to women managers — re-engineer your homes to have a successful career growth. They were speaking at IBM's ... More FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TN wooing US Inc to set up plants THE Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, has requested the US Ambassador to India, Mr Robert D. Blackwill, who called on her at the Secretariat today, to facilitate the visit of a top ranking US business delegation to Chennai and Tamil ... More EVENTS `Global-scale plants hold the key to success' THE Chinese are good at making simple things in large batch sizes. But, when it comes to manufacturing products that involve flexible manufacturing with a high level of product and industrial engineering, multi-vendor coordination and continuous ... More INCOME TAX 
Kelkar hits salaried class the hardestTHE Kelkar task force had many noble objectives of rationalisation and simplification of tax structure, procedures and assessments. The vision of the task force was to make the department customer-friendly and transparent, besides widening the ... More EXPORTS & IMPORTS India's share seen up in world rice trade THE international market for rice in 2002 has been gathering momentum in recent months. World rice trade this year may touch 25.7 million tonnes, 1.7 mt higher than in 2001, according to forecast made by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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