The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, March 03, 2007

COMMODITY EXCHANGES
Call to ban forward trading in maize
The National Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC) has urged the Union Finance Minsiter, Mr P. Chidambaram, to impose a ban on forward trading in maize, as he did in wheat and rice, as it is making life miserable for the poultry farmers and the egg ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS
Golden Leaf tea tasting competition on March 22
The final tea tasting session and the award ceremony of the third edition of The Golden Leaf India Awards: Southern Tea Competition (TIGLIA) will be held here on March 22. The response has been good and there was 10 per cent increase from that ... More

ELECTRONICS
L&T Capital picks up 14.95% stake in Salzer
Larsen and Toubro has through its investment arm, L&T Capital Company Ltd, picked 14.95 per cent stake in the Coimbatore-based Salzer Electronics Ltd. The latter has formally approved the proposal. An EGM has been convened on March 28 to ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
`Booming real estate prices an irritant in retail expansion'
Meet Mr Samir Modi, `a man full of ideas', as he describes himself. He heads `Twenty Four Seven Convenience Stores'. A `chain' in Delhi that caters to `the changing needs of the young urban Indian population, that needs a concept such as a ... More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
RBI steps to sterilise Re funds
With rupee funds flooding the system on the back of dollar inflows, the RBI has significantly altered measures to sterilise them (rupees). It has put a ceiling of Rs 3,000 crore on the free funds parked daily by banks with it through the ... More

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