Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CLIMATE & WEATHER 
Tropical storm shows signs of weakeningTROPICAL storm 07B, the deep depression in the southwest Bay of Bengal, which lay centred about 250 km east of Nagapattinam at 11.30 a.m. on Monday, has already started showing signs of weakening. The central pressure of the system has scaled ... More SOCIAL SECURITY Many PSUs may get nod to handle pension funds A BATTERY of high-power public sector fund managers could take the field in the proposed New Pension System (NPS), with the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) taking a positive view on all the State-owned entities that have ... More
'Coal mines provident fund struggles to pay 8 pc interest' ECONOMY Nagaland Plan outlay at Rs 760 cr THE Annual Plan size of Nagaland for 2006-07 has been pegged at Rs 760 crore, inclusive of one-time special assistance of Rs 50 crore for projects of special priority interest to the State. The Plan size was decided today at a meeting between ... More ENVIRONMENT 
Price of developmentPollution monitoring agencies have come up with strict norms to check the problem. According to the Kerala State Pollution Control Board, there are 423 hazardous waste generating units in the State. The total hazardous waste generated is ... More FOREIGN TRADE Trade thru Nathu La Pass may take off by second half of 2006 IT WOULD be meaningless to talk of trade through the Nathu La Pass unless infrastructure on both sides of the India-China border was upgraded adequately, according to Prof. Mahendra P. Lama, Leader of the Nathu La Trade Study Group and Chairman ... More
`Netherlands, TN could tie up for economic benefits'
Dutch Consul seeks greater co-operation with Indian business HEALTH TCS inks pact with Novo Nordisk TCS has entered into an engagement with Novo Nordisk, a player in the field of diabetic care, for the implementation of an offshore clinical operations service. TCS will provide a suite of data management services, which include designing, ... More PSU IPE on ADB institutes network HYDERABAD: The Institute of Public Enterprises has been elected to the Steering Committee of the Network of Asia Pacific Institutes in Public Administration for a period of three years. The network was set by the Asian Development Bank ... More POWER AP to waive surcharge for defaulting power users The State Government has petitioned the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission to reduce the surcharge from April 1, 2006, when the new tariff structure will come into effect. More CIGARETTES Tobacco industry seeks exclusion from VAT AS the time for review of not imposing value-added tax (VAT) on items currently attracting additional excise duties such as sugar, textiles and tobacco in line with the White Paper on `State-level VAT' of the Empowered Committee of State Finance ... More RADIO/TV 
Panel calls for content regulator, rules for TV programmes, adsTO formulate a comprehensive Broadcast Code, a committee set up by the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry is examining a draft that proposes the creation of a Content Regulator and putting in place provisions relating to programming .. More
ESPN-Star Sports eyes Rs 100-cr revenues through Dish TV tie-up EDUCATION NIIT, catalyst in rural schooling transformation CHILDREN of families below the poverty line, who study in remote residential and day schools, are a transformed lot thanks to computers. After three years of computer training, they now can design Web pages, make slide presentations and ... More
CEC, Inflibnet to spread awareness on networking classrooms
ICFAI varsity to hold global meet MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS Continuing medical education workshop at Hyderabad HYDERABAD: About 500 doctors from all over the country have attended the annual CME (Continual Medical Education) programme organised by Yashoda Hospital here on Sunday. The daylong workshop covered a variety of medical and surgical ... More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DTH-loaded Insat-4A launch on Dec 22 THE stage is getting set for the launch of Insat-4A, ISRO's latest and heaviest satellite, from Kourou in the wee hours of December 22. The 3,080-kg Insat-4A is the first of the fourth-generation Insats and a bulk of it is meant for the ... More CINEMA A splendid year for Malayalam film industry AN assistant director, an effeminate beach boy, a police commissioner and a rustic buffalo trader brought back audience in droves to theatres in 2005 as Malayalam cinema staged a grand show of box office hits throughout the year. Compared with ... More GENDER Women's organisation to step up pressure WOMENPOWERCONNECT (WPC), a group of women organisations and non-governmental organisations formed early this year, has decided to step up lobbying to press for their demands, which include 33 per cent reservation for women. The Group would also ... More DISINVESTMENT 
Govt to divest 8 pc in Maruti — Stake sale limited to banks, FIsREVIVING the disinvestment process, the Government today invited Expression of Interest (EoI) from domestic public sector financial institutions and public sector banks for picking up 8 per cent stake in the auto major, Maruti Udyog Ltd ... More
SBI Caps wins bid for valuation of Govt stake in Balco FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT India's FDI record no big deal, says Yale Prof THE foreign direct investment (FDI) scenario in India is abysmal. This is reflected in the untapped potential to woo foreign players due to the Government's refusal to open up certain sectors for investments, said Prof T. N. Srinivasan of ... More
Now, NRIs favour `Investment Regions' WTO `WTO deal favours the rich'; Left plans stir THE Left parties on Monday said they plan to launch an agitation against the global trade deal struck by WTO member countries at the Hong Kong ministerial meeting. Terming the revised Ministerial text adopted at the meet as being heavily ... More TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS Don't press for a wage hike, APK tells workers THE Association of Planters of Kerala (APK) has sought the cooperation of trade unions in not pressing for minimum wage revision and to come forward to settle the wage issue on a realistic and pragmatic basis. The APK has come out with such a ... More EVENTS 
`Imbibe value engineering in design and construction'FOR substantial savings to accrue to Indian corporates, it would be imperative to imbibe value engineering in design and construction, as has been done in the manufacturing arena, according to the Indian Value Engineering Society ... More
IIT-Kharagpur to host nanotech meet EXPORTS & IMPORTS Poultry body plans floor price for egg export ALONG with the booming export trade, table egg shippers from Namakkal are also encountering the problem of price undercutting by some unscrupulous elements to win temporary gains in the market. To counter this, the Namakkal-based All-India ... More
Revenue department eases norms for registration of EOUs
Tamiflu, an export opportunity for domestic drug cos TOURISM 
More funds for tourism infrastructure soughtTHE Ministry of Tourism has asked the Planning Commission to request each Ministry to set aside a certain portion of its funds for the development of tourism-related infrastructure, the Minister for Tourism, Ms Renuka Chowdhury, has said. "If ... More ECONOMIC OFFENCES SEBI bars DSQ Biotech from markets till April 2008 THE Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred DSQ Biotech Ltd from accessing the capital market or dealing in securities till April 9, 2008, after the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) rejected an appeal from the company against ... More
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Looking back Dec. 11-Dec. 17 BJP meet may focus on VAT revenue loss compensation and CST phase-out India-China combine faces tough competition in Syrian oil stake bid Left parties preparing plan to identify sources to fund NIF — To press for review of Govt sops to industrial units BJP meet gives in-principle nod for VAT adoption; raises fresh concerns Fear of `conflict diamonds' entering country — Mines, Industry Ministries differ over 100 pc FDI in diamond mining Protests against sending French ship to Alang — Allowing the highly hazardous Clemenceau will 'harm workers' Foreign flag vessels may bring down LNG import costs On questionable questions CMIE increases GDP growth forecast to 7.6% Govt identifies more PSUs for divestment Employers bullish about hiring: Survey Passenger car sales down 2.31 pc in Nov India tops US for 2nd spot in FDI destination rankings Focus on sustaining higher economic growth 52 MoUs for mining, but none cleared India keeping off Malaysian crude palm oil? Indian `Band of Angels' keen to fund start-ups Lok Sabha passes taxation laws Bill Manufacturing sectors post `impressive' growth Aiyar hints at deregulating natural gas prices SAT orders compensation for DSQ Soft shareholders IOC, ONGC block deal plan to help save on capital gains tax 8 defunct urea PSUs to be restarted: Paswan `Himalayan quakes may occur sooner than expected' |
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