The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 09, 2006

Cold wave may last for two more days
THE existing western disturbance over north Pakistan and adjoining Jammu and Kashmir has outlasted its tenure, affecting the intensity of the incoming system as well as delaying its entry into India by two days. This will also result in its ... More

NRIS

Getting Down Under
Rajesh Padmanabhan provides some tips for those intending to immigrate to Australia More

States vie for a big share of the NRI investment pie
The Secretary General of FICCI, Dr Amit Mitra, said India figures high on investor confidence grades globally and is becoming an attractive destination for foreign direct investment. More

AP assures single-window clearance for NRIs
THE Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy, assured a single window clearance system for projects within the framework created for investments within the State. Responding to an NRI's interest in setting up a five-star hotel near the ... More

ANTI-DUMPING

Dumping probe on bias tyres initiated
THE Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into the import of bias tyres for bus and lorries/trucks from China and Thailand. The products under probe are new/unused pneumatic diagonal ply or ... More

BUDGET

Govt working towards zero-based Budget: Montek
THE Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, on Sunday said that an approach document for the Eleventh Plan would be released within a month bringing out steps towards shift to a zero-based Budget. Speaking on the ... More

Reduce excise duty on cars, MUVs: BCIC
THE Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) has said that the excise duty on passenger cars and the multi-utility vehicles (MUV) should be reduced to 16 per cent as it would help the automobile industry consolidate the gains achieved ... More

ECONOMY

Telangana: PM calls for research on regional disparities
OBSERVING that there were marked variations in inter-regional development in the country, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has urged social research institutions to undertake a more detailed research to enable the Government effectively ... More

PETROLEUM

Panna Mukta Tapti seeks to be free of APM burden — Wants to market directly the entire gas production
THE Panna Mukta Tapti (PMT), joint venture between ONGC, British Gas and Reliance, will approach the Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry this month, seeking release of six million standard cubic metres (mmscmd) of gas for direct marketing in ... More

POWER

Shorter hours of power supply hit shrimp farms in AP
CUT in duration of power supply has hit aquaculture farms in the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. The regional office of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has written to APTransco to help the farmers by increasing the ... More

SSI

Dun & Bradstreet to pick up 50 pc stake in SME rating agency
SMALL Industrial Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Dun & Bradstreet are launching a joint venture company to help small and medium enterprises access funds in a more streamlined manner. Both the partners will hold a 50 per cent stake in ... More

Oracle sees growth in SME sector
THAT India is the venue for the three-day Oracle Open World conference (starting January 9) highlights the importance accorded to the country by the company, said Mr Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle India. Over 2,000 officials, ... More

RADIO/TV

Now, AIR stutters on cricket broadcast
WITH just a few days to go for the India-Pakistan cricket series to begin, not just the telecast rights but negotiations for radio rights too have reached an impasse. The Dubai-based ARY Digital, which holds the radio rights to these matches, ... More

FM radio: Will ad flow be music to bidders?
Radio is back and moving up. But Friday's bid amounts for FM radio, in particular the Rs 35-crore winning offer for Mumbai, have set the industry wondering if its ascent is yet again at high cost. According to one official whose media company ... More

EDUCATION

International Group plans hotel mgmt institute in Dubai
THE Kolkata-based International Group, which runs three hotel management institutes in India under the International Institute of Hotel Management banner, has firmed up plans to set up a hotel management institute in Dubai. The proposed ... More

`Education must for success of economic system'
THE West Bengal Minister for Higher Education, Mr Satya sadhan Chakraborty, has said that the new industrial revolution sweeping around the world now has ushered in a knowledge-based society, which has opened the gates for "education for ... More

LEATHER

TN leather sector disappointed with Apache going to AP
Industry people had been optimistic that the investment would come to Tamil Nadu and it was predicted that this was the beginning of a trend that would see manufacturers from Taiwan and China looking at diversifying production bases coming to the Sta te. More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ISRO in sight of foreign satellite contract
YEARS after it started building its own communications satellites, the Indian Space Resource Organisation (ISRO) may be on the verge of breaching the tough international satellite market. The national space agency's export arm, Antrix ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Need to build talent stressed
THE Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Zensar Technologies, Dr Ganesh Natarajan, has called for a greater industry-academia collaboration to build talent for the country. "We have to have such partnerships running to create a better eco ... More

EVENTS

Agenda for the week

Mumbai engagements

CONSUMERISM

All that glitters isn't gold
SHOULD purchasers of gold ornaments be left at the mercy of the traders? This was the question that the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), New Delhi, decided on December 12, 2005, in the Akhil Bhartiya Upbhokta Congress ... More

TOURISM

Alert independent traveller's destination
TWO events last week turned the spotlight once more on what Kerala is best known for at this time of the year - travel and tourism. As the tourism season peaks, the State is unfurling its choicest charms to woo increasingly sophisticated ... More

Maharashtra Tourism to offer online reservation
FOR tourists keen to book a room at a property run by the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC), reservations will soon be a click away. MTDC said it plans to launch an online reservation system that would enable tourists to make ... More

Kalachakra opens up tourism avenues
KALACHAKRA, the Buddhist initiation and empowerment ceremony currently going on here over which the Dalai Lama is presiding, has kindled interest in the many Buddhist sites dotted across the State and the Tourism Department has ambitious plans to ... More