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AQUACULTURE


  • ERP package for seafood industry

    BUDGET


    Assocham plea on tax deductions
    THE Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has urged the Government to review the existing income-tax provisions that deny tax deductions on the component of total income enhanced by transfer pricing adjustments. The ... More

    FOREIGN TRADE


  • Tap Chinese market, exporters told

    PETROLEUM


    Head hunt on for three oil PSUs' top slot
    THE three public oil sector oil majors— Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Indian Oil Corporation - will witness a change of guard in the next three to six months. The CMDs of all the three PSUs are retiring ... More

    Advanced licensing scheme for petro products may go
    FACED with massive shortfall in revenues, the Finance Ministry is actively considering a proposal to scrap the Advanced Licensing Scheme for petroleum products. The scheme, which was approved in May 2001, has already resulted in an outgo of ... More

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS


    Failure to fulfil rural telephony obligations -- Mahajan pulls up pvt
    THE Union Communications Minister, Mr Pramod Mahajan, has pulled up the private basic operators for failing to fulfil their rural telephony obligations and sought a detailed roll-out plan regarding their coverage of the pending 60,000 villages ... More

    VSNL most-favoured status `part of package'
    VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) will retain the most-favoured status as a gateway for all the international traffic of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), but will have to offer them competitive rates, ... More

    TEXTILES


    DEPB benefits to silk items restored
    THE Revenue Department has allowed the duty entitlement pass-book (DEPB) benefits to embroidered silk products and made-ups and fabrics of the DEPB schedule prior to November 6, 2000. Official sources told Business Line here that the ... More

    TYRES


    Bridgestone, MRF top J.D. Power study
    BRIDGESTONE and MRF have been ranked the highest in the 2002 India Original Tyre Customer Satisfaction Index (TCSI) study done by J.D. Power Asia Pacific. Bridgestone and MRF have recorded an identical score of 742 index points to share the top ... More

    INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS


    FICCI sets agenda for SAARC
    THE Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has mooted a three-pronged economic agenda for the ongoing 11th SAARC summit at Kathmandu. First, the summit should take concrete steps towards setting up of a SAARC Free Trade Area ... More

  • Auto dealers for lower ST on used cars

    KNITWEAR & HOSIERY


    Tirupur knitwear exports down 9%
    KNITWEAR exports from Tirupur have dropped both in quantity and value during the 2001 calendar year compared to the previous year. The total volume of knitted garment shipment exported during the year fell by 9.2 per cent at 3,863 lakh pieces, ... More

    WTO


    WTO audit thru sector-specific studies suggested
    THE time is now ripe for Indian industry to start on its own internal WTO audit on the kind of tariff levels that it can sustain with regard to the items whose tariff levels are still unbound, and report it to the Government for preparing an ... More

    EVENTS


    CII summit in Bangalore
    MORE than 1,000 trade delegates from around the world will be participating in the eighth Partnership Summit of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which is scheduled to be held in Bangalore from January 5 to 11. Special focus is ... More

    Blair to inaugurate Centre for Good Governance
    BRITISH Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, who is on a visit to India as a part of his South Asia tour, is set to commission the `Centre for Good Governance' funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) here. The DFID-funded ... More


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