![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CLIMATE & WEATHER Watch for monsoon revival on THE National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) has maintained its watch for the northeast monsoon to revive over Tamil Nadu and adjoining south coastal Andhra Pradesh earliest by Thursday. Establishment of an east-west shear ... More NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY Sugar millers hopeful of gasohol programme launch The South Indian Sugar Mills Association has represented to the Tamil Nadu Government to approve production of larger quantities of anhydrous ethanol to cover the entire State under the programme. More ECONOMY Investor confidence high in AP: CM INVESTOR confidence in Andhra Pradesh is upbeat, especially after the recent outcome of the elections to the local bodies, the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, said here on Monday. The confidence is clear in the boom being witnessed ... More EXCISE AND CUSTOMS
Tariff value hiked for palm group of oils, cut for soya oilTHE Central Board of Excise and Customs revised the tariff values for various edible oils on Monday. Palm group of oils has attracted hikes ranging from $2 a tonne for RBD palmolein to a high of $8 a tonne for crude palm oil. Crude soyabean ... More FOREIGN TRADE China to tap Tibet's hydel potential to sell power to India The Chinese administration is working on harnessing the hydel power capacity in Tibet, with plans to market bulk of the electricity to India. At a recent International Conference of System Operators in Beijing, a senior official with the China ... More HEALTH Avian flu: Govt puts in place surveillance system THE Government today said a nationwide surveillance system has been put in place to keep a close eye on domestic poultry population and migratory birds to deal with any untoward situation. A committee has also been formed to study whether the ... More INFRASTRUCTURE FICCI seeks tax sops for infrastructure projects FICCI calls for hundred per cent tax holiday for 10 consecutive years during the first 15 years after commencement of operations. More PHARMACEUTICALS IDMA supplies drugs to quake-hit Pak, J&K INDIAN drug-makers have supplied medicines to the earthquake-hit Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan. Members of the Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association supplied medicines worth Rs 25 lakh to the earthquake victims of Pakistan, an IDMA ... More TEXTILES Textile industry in a fix over `C' form shortage THE commercial tax instrument `C' form that allows concessional Central Sales Tax (CST) rate for inter-State transaction has been the latest worry for the manufacturing industry, including the predominant cotton textile sector here. ... More SSI SBT gets national award THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: State Bank of Travancore (SBT) has bagged the national award instituted by the Ministry of Small Scale Industries for excellence in lending to the small-scale industries (SSI) sector where it topped all associate banks ... More WATER Panel moots monitoring mechanism to check Periyar water quality THE Local Area Environment Committee has recommended the setting up of a permanent laboratory by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board for round-the-clock monitoring mechanism to check water quality in the Periyar. In its report submitted ... More
Deadline for Godavari water scheme extended RADIO/TV Zee to restructure content of Café, Studio channels AFTER re-branding Zee Café and Zee Studio, Zee Telefilms is now looking at restructuring the programming for these channels. Elaborating on the new strategies for the channels, Mr Neil Chakravarti, Senior Vice-President, Zee Telefilms, said, ... More EDUCATION `Removal of weak areas helped SAIL turn around' A TOUGH restructuring plan besides initiating technological upgradation and capacity expansion enabled SAIL to turn around and post net profit of Rs 6,817 crore in 2004-05 from the net loss of Rs 1,574 crore during 1998-1999, according to the ... More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ONGC to launch pilot project for helium production ONGC has entered into an MoU with the Department of Science and Technology and the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics for launching a Rs 200-crore pilot project for production of helium from natural gas at Kutralam in Tamil Nadu. ONGC will fund ... More WTO CUTS bags WTO project CUTS International, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has been awarded the project to conduct a strategic review of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) trade-related technical assistance programme, according to a release. CUTS would ... More IPR Workshop on IPR at Hyderabad HYDERABAD: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Andhra Pradesh Technology Development and Promotion Centre (APTDC) will organise a two-day national workshop on `Intellectual property rights (IPR) in manufacturing' here, beginning ... More EVENTS
March ahead!A huge shoe, created by youths employed under the `Rajiv Yuvashakthi' scheme for gainful employment, on display at the `Yuva' exhibition in Hyderabad on ... More INCOME TAX
No perceptible impact of I-T ad campaign on assessees, say CAsTHE Income-Tax Department's high-pitched advertisement campaign reminding assessees to file their returns by October 31 deadline does not seem to have had a material impact on the taxpayers it was targeting, according to feedback received from ... More
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