INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
INTERIORS & HOMES
Dubai Design Centre to be launched
NAKHEEL, one of Dubai's premier property developers behind some iconic projects, has announced plans to launch Dubai Design Centre (DDC), an exclusive trade outlet for home furnishing and accessories for traders from across the world at its ...
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ECONOMY
Top priority to taming inflation, says PM
THE Congress-led UPA Government's "highest priority" was higher economic growth and enhanced investment with price stability, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, declared here on Saturday. Speaking at the day-long meeting of the All India ...
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Implementation of schemes — House panel pulls up Commerce Ministry
A STANDING Parliamentary Committee on Commerce has pulled up the Commerce Ministry by detecting a distinct "mismatch" in the vigour with which funds are sought by the Ministry and the zeal with which the schemes are implemented by it. In its ...
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HEALTH
New vision, closer bond
WHEN she goes back to Karachi, the five-year-old Pakistani girl, who underwent liver transplant early this month, would like to tell her teacher that she can see like any other kid of her age does. Before setting off for India along with her ...
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PHARMACEUTICALS
`Covering more drugs under price control will lead to costlier imports'
THE Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) is hoping that the Centre does not carry forward the proposal to bring under price control a wider range of pharmaceutical products. In an informal chat with Business Line, the IDMA's ...
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POWER
Govt may allow bidding for coal mining blocks
THE Centre is actively mulling the possibility of allotting captive coal mining blocks on a competitive basis after earmarking coal blocks for the public sector behemoth Coal India Ltd. The blocks will be awarded to the bidder quoting the highest ...
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STEEL
Steel makers unhappy over import duty cut
THE steel industry seems to be quite unhappy over the import duty cut announced by the Government on Friday. While imports currently are extremely low because the average domestic steel prices are lower than the ruling international prices, ...
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TAXATION
Settlement of 400 tax arrears cases to be expedited
THE Government has assured the Standing Committee on Finance that it would try to speed up settlement of those 400 cases in which 78 per cent of the accumulated direct tax arrears of Rs 88,000 crore are locked up. An analysis of the ...
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TEXTILES
TN weaving park promoters need to do more for investors
PROMOTERS of hi-tech weaving parks in Tamil Nadu may have to do more convincing work on the proposed powerloom park projects to draw good investor interest. Apart from the viability factor, the principal promoters behind the powerloom weaving ...
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ICMF seeks duty cut on man-made fibres
EVEN as the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, hinted at likely sops to enable higher growth of the man-made fabrics sector, the industry is smarting under frequent jacking up of raw material prices by the domestic producers, on the one hand, ...
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PRINTING
Publishers told to enhance quality
THE Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Mr E.V.K.S. Elangovan, on Saturday called upon the publishing industry to work on the content as well as quality enhancement in order to meet the challenges of high-quality books being ...
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Coir Board targets 25 pc annual growth in exports
A "MILLENNIUM development mission document" prepared by Coir Board aims at increasing coir export from the country by 25 per cent each year and achieving Rs 1,000 crore by 2008-09. Simultaneously, the employment in the coir sector is sought to ...
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DEPB scheme may get a facelift: Assocham
THE Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India (Assocham) has said the Duty Exemption Pass Book (DEPB) scheme may see a kind of redesigning in the forthcoming National Foreign Trade Policy (NFTP). The "anomalies" between the Duty Draw .
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