The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 07, 2006

Innovator identification camp
The Vellore Institute of Technology is planning to hold the `Innovator Identification Camp 2006' at Coimbatore on Saturday. This would be one of the two camps proposed (the other at Chennai), which is aimed at reaching out to ... More

TN to revise college curriculum
To suit needs of ITES sector More

Cellular base station antenna unit in Madurai
TVS ICS in joint venture with Argus of Australia More

BSNL extends closed user group facility
The New Friends and Family scheme has been extended. More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Reliance bags Hyderabad airport fuel farm operations
Storage capacity can handle fuel needs for 10 days More

KoPT container handling at all-time high
In September 2006, Kolkata Dock System has handled 24,383 TEUs marking a 28.63 per cent growth in container traffic handling compared with 18,956 TEUs in the corresponding month in 2005. According to a press release issued by the Kolkata Port ... More

Phones on demand by March: BSNL(Kerala)
The Kerala Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) expects to provide phones on demand by March next year. Addressing a press conference in the city on Friday, Mr S.A. Thomas, Chief General Manager, Kerala Circle-BSNL, said the company ... More

Seminar on credit rating
The Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) and National Small Industries Corporation will organise a seminar on `Credit rating for the small-scale sector' on Saturday. "Credit rating adds ... More

BL club at Vijayawada
A club of The Hindu-Business Line readers will be inaugurated here on Saturday morning, according to Mr M. Krishna Kiran, Regional General Manager of The Hindu, Vijayawada. The club will be inaugurated by Prof V. ... More

Indo-American Chamber head
Mr T. Gopichand, Managing Director of Tera Software was elected chairman of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Andhra Pradesh branch for 2006-2007. Its other members are Mr V. Anand Reddy (Sonali Castings) and Ms Shanti Kumar ... More

Meet to spread awareness on noni cultivation
With a view to increasing the awareness on `noni' (botanical name Morinda citrifolia) fruit, World Noni Research Foundation is organising a two-day symposium on the subject on October 7 and 8 in the city. Addressing a press conference ... More

SBI `Mega Loan Mahotsav'
State Bank of India has announced the launch of a three-day `Mega Loan Mahotsav' for extending home and car loans with attractive features during the ongoing festive period at the Institution of Engineers here on Friday. According to the SBI ... More

Hyderabad to get urban entertainment centre
A consortium with Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd as the lead member would set up an urban entertainment centre project in the heart of Hyderabad, on a Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis. The Andhra Pradesh Government has awarded the project ... More

Andhra Govt mulls shipyard at Kakinada
The Andhra Pradesh Government is proposing establishment of a shipyard at Kakinada and is ready to allocate 600 acres required for the purpose, according to the State Roads & Buildings Minister, Mr J. Ramamohana Rao. Mr Rao, who was here on ... More

Separate police for consumer fora sought
There is a need for a separate police force to deal with the mounting number of consumer cases in the State, as the police at present are unable to execute the non-bailable arrest warrants issued by the consumer fora, according to Mr Justice I.V. ... More

KERALA
No power cut this year, says Kerala Minister
There will be no need of power cut or load-shedding in Kerala this year, according to Mr. A.K. Balan, Electricity Minister. He said in the Assembly on Friday that the water storage in the States' hydel reservoirs was lower than last year at ... More

KARNATAKA
Karnataka Bank opens 400th branch
Karnataka Bank Ltd has opened its 400th branch at H.S.R. Layout in Bangalore. A bank release said here on Friday that the Karnataka Governor, Mr T.N. Chaturvedi, who inaugurated the branch on Thursday, lauded the service being ... More

KEL to set up IT park in Konaje
The UAE-based Kanara Entrepreneurs Ltd (KEL) is planning to set up a hi-tech information technology (IT) infrastructure park on 50 acres of land at Konaje in Mangalore taluk. Addressing presspersons here, Mr Jerome Saldanha, President of KEL, ... More

OTHER STATES
Ministry for full trade with Myanmar at Moreh
Restricted list of 22 items may go; RBI to look into banking hiccups More

GoAir ties up with Goa Tourism
To develop common brand `GoGoa' More

MAHARASHTRA
Creative IT to set up pharma facility in Maharashtra
To bring in cos to outsource initial stages of drug development, multiple testing More

Medha Patkar-led group protests against SEZ
`Radh karo radh karo, SEZ radh karo'. This was the chant rendered by about 500 farmers, workers, small scale industrial workers who took part in the morcha taken out in Pune by the special economic zone (SEZ) Virodhi Sangharsha Samiti. The ... More

WEST BENGAL
Bengal police probing data theft case
Data security is an international issue: Nasscom More

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