The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 07, 2003

Qatar Air launches flight to Kochi
QATAR Airways launched its fourth destination in India on Thursday with the inaugural flight from Doha to Kochi International Airport at nearby Nedumbassery. On the commencement of the operations, Mr Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, in a ... More

Kuwait Air, Emirates plan to continue full services
DESPITE the gloom in the Gulf region, Indian air travellers have some cause for cheer. The flights to India operated by Kuwait Airways (KA) are not to be affected even as the airline has announced a temporary curtailing of services to ... More

Naidu for direct flight service to Frankfurt
HARDSELLING Andhra Pradesh as an investment destination, the Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, urged the delegation from Germany headed by its President, Mr Johannes Rau, to facilitate the launch of commercial air services between ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

KSRTC pilot project for tracking vehicles
THE Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has implemented a pilot project on its Bangalore-Mumbai route that promises improved efficiency and punctuality. In fact, KSRTC is willing to return 10 per cent of the ticket amount to ... More

SOFTWARE

US firm chooses Four Soft product
FOUR Soft, software solutions provider focussing on supply chain and logistics space, has announced that the San Jose, California-based Frank-Lin Distillers Products, has chosen eSupplyEP, the company's enterprise resource planning product, to ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

The multi-modal debate
AFTER processing, the tea grown in the gardens of Assam will be packed in paper sacks for transportation by road to the inland container depot (ICD) at Amingaon near Guwahati. The empty containers available in the ICD will be stuffed with the tea ... More

At the `core' of country
INDIA is one of the world's fastest growing significant economies. In the Ninth Five-Year Plan ended 2001-02, the average annual rate of GDP growth was 5.4 per cent, with wide inter-year swings. The GDP growth target for the Tenth Five-Year Plan ... More

SECURITY

Shipping lines summoned for security meet
DOMESTIC shipping lines were surprised to get a call from the office of the Directorate-General of Shipping (DGS) today asking them to attend an urgent meeting on national security on Friday. What baffled them was the subject of the meeting: ... More

RAILWAYS

Passenger decline, safety not linked: Nitish
THE Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, has refuted the view that lack of safety had led to passenger decline in rail use, stating that there was "no relation between passenger decline and safety", even as he reassured the members of the Lok Sabha ... More

Ships in Ports

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