Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY NRIS 
Corpn Bank launches 3 online remittance products for NRIsAS part of its centenary celebrations, Corporation Bank has launched three online remittance products, Corp X'press money, Corp Quick Remit and Remittance Through Exchange Houses. Mr V.K. Chopra, Chairman and Managing Director, during the ... More BUDGET `Withdrawal tax may drive depositors to post offices' THE dwindling queues at the country's post offices could soon become longer, but this time around the rush could be at the counters offering banking services. A section of senior bankers are of the opinion that the Budget proposal to impose a ... More COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES Govt to computerise all courts over next 4 years DELIVERANCE of justice may get expedited in the coming days, with the Government looking to fully computerise every court in the country over the next four years. "The Law Ministry is looking to spend Rs 300 crore to Rs 400 crore every year ... More ECONOMY 
`State has received highest number of industrial investment intents'THE Maharashtra Governor, Mr S.M. Krishna, today said that the State has received the highest number of industrial investment intents till October 2004. Intents totalling 11,967 with a collective value of Rs 2,65,411 crore were received. It ... More ENGINEERING CII-GBC to organise meet on turbo machinery THE CII-Sohrabji Green Business Centre (CII-GBC) is planning to organise a two-day Turbomachinery-2005 here next month, focussing on improvement opportunities in turbo machinery. The seminar, beginning April 15, would cover a range of issues ... More FERTILISERS Thanjavur liquid bio-fertiliser unit goes on stream A LIQUID bio-fertiliser plant has become operational in the SIDCO Industrial Estate at Thanjavur. Stated to be the first of its kind in the State, the plant promoted by Tari Biotech under the New Anna Marumalarchi Thittam, is fully automated ... More FOREIGN TRADE Kamal Nath seeks Belgian initiative to address NTB issues THE Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, on Monday sought Belgian initiative to settle the issues of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) faced by Indian exporters in the European Union (EU). Addressing the `Indo-Belgium: Building strong ... More
PSU Oil PSUs may get limited autonomy to fix prices THE Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, on Monday said the Government would like to give public sector oil firms limited autonomy to fix petrol and diesel prices within a narrow price band, once international prices ... More PETROLEUM Monitoring mechanism for distribution of LPG cylinders tightened IN order to curb the growing instances of black marketing of domestic gas cylinders and ensuring easy availability to genuine customers, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has worked out a tighter monitoring mechanism for distribution of ... More
POWER TAXATION 
Budget: Innovative and worrisomeYou are not here to tell me what to do. You are here to tell me why I have done what I have already decided to do. — Montagu Norman, former Governor of the Bank of England.
VAT: Bengal trade body to observe hunger strike WATER Kerala Govt expediting drinking water projects: Minister THE State Government is taking steps to expedite the drinking water projects to be implemented in the State with the assistance of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). The Minister for Water Resources, Mr Thiruvanchoor ... More COAL Foreign cos offer to supply coal on fixed-price basis A CLUTCH of foreign companies have begun offering fixed price supplies of coal to domestic power projects. Sources said that among the international companies which had pitched for tying up long-term, fixed-price, coal-supply contracts ... More RADIO/TV DTH panel wants Govt to set up own monitoring system THE committee looking into the security issues of the direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting has suggested that the Government set up its own monitoring station not just for this service but for all the satellite channels beaming into the ... More
Sony Entertainment to acquire SAB TV brand for Rs 57 cr
Prasar Bharati reconstructing DD transmitter at Nicobar
FM radio transmitter facility to be set up in Sringeri EDUCATION IITs to offer new courses THE Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have decided to start new courses at three locations from the 2005-06 academic sessions in various areas including nanoscience. Also a number of additional courses in the areas of waste-water science ... More FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING Meet on food processing from March 25 A NATIONAL Convention on Prospects for Food Processing Sector in Andhra Pradesh is being organised by the APITCO at Vijayawada on March 25-26. The convention will focus specifically on the potential opportunities available for the prospective ... More READYMADE GARMENTS Lower drawback duty to hit garment exporters Many garment exporters had turned to producing niche products because they could not compete with Chinese producers in the mass production segment. More BIO-TECH & GENETICS Indian drug firms focus on micro-organisms MORE than two decades after an Indian-born scientist, Dr Ananda Chakraborty, obtained the first global patent in the US on a `live organism' - the genetically modified bacteria that was useful in the petroleum industry the interest in ... More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY MTAR Tech hands over grid plate tech to IGCAR THE city-based MTAR Technologies on Sunday handed over the first indigenously developed `Grid Plate' manufacturing technology to the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). Terming it a "truly world-class achievement", the Chairman of ... More GENDER 
Girsl campaignYoung girls participating in a rally in the Capital on Monday organised by Campaign demanding an end to employing female child workers. |
