Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Sunday, March 24, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Sunday, March 24, 2002 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CHEMICALS Cess for chemical R&D proposed INTRODUCTION of a special cess of 0.5 per cent (of the sale price) on all chemical products sold in the country has been recommended by the Government-appointed task force on the chemical industry to create an R&D fund for the sector. The ... More ECONOMY Loans, advances to Govt down Rs 1,155 crore LOANS and advances provided by RBI to the Centre in the form of ways and means advances have declined by Rs 1,155 crore to Rs 3,664 crore as on March 15 from Rs 4,819 crore in the previous week. Dealers believe that this figure may fall to nil ... More
Kerala Plan to stress on job creation FOREIGN TRADE Easier export cargo movement to Nepal, Bangladesh via land IN an exporter-friendly move, the Finance Ministry has permitted the movement of export cargo from inland container depots (ICDs)/container freight stations (CFS) to Nepal and Bangladesh through land customs stations (LCS). The facility for ... More FOREX Forex reserves rise nearly $10 b this fiscal THE country's forex reserves have increased by nearly $10 billion this fiscal to touch a high of $ 52.189 billion for the week ended March 15, 2002. As at end-March 2001, reserves stood at $ 42.281 billion. For the week ended March 15, 2002, ... More HEALTH `50 pc of Indian youth need eye care' PRACTISING optometrists from Bangalore, optometry students and the public literally joined hands on Saturday forming a human chain in Cubbon Park, pledging to help the cause of eyecare in the country. A report on youth vision in India was also ... More INFRASTRUCTURE 
Japanese firms keen on investing in Bengal: CMTHE West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has said that the State has an ideal environment for investments and three Japanese majors — Mitsubishi, Marubeni and Mitsui — have evinced interest in various projects in ... More PSU SCOPE sets up panel NEW DELHI: The Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE) has set up a Standing Legal Committee, comprising legal experts from ONGC, SAIL, NTPC and SCOPE, which is drafting a model for service contract documents. It would also ... More TEXTILES 
`TN textile stir due to misinformation'THE Union Minister of State for Textiles, Mr V. Dhananjaya Kumar, has said that the textile strike in Tamil Nadu against imposition of excise duty on hank yarn is a result of misinformation. The rationale behind the imposition of excise duty is ... More WATER MANAGEMENT MANPOWER The Indian workforce — who counts? The Census figures reveal that out of our total population of 1.02 billion, 402.51 million people work; of these, 275.46 million are men and 127.05 million women. More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ISRO plans support centre for disaster management THE Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is setting up a Decision Support Centre (DSC). The centre is expected to emerge as a one-stop information services provider on space-based inputs for disaster management. The range of imagery taken ... More DISINVESTMENT AITUC writes to ILO on Jessop union leader issue THE All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) has written to the International Labour Organisation drawing its attention to the action taken by the Centre against one of the trade union leaders of Jessop. Mr Alok Brahmachari, who was spearheading ... More EXPORTS & IMPORTS Epichlorohydrin imports being investigated THE Director-General (Safeguards) has initiated a safeguards investigation on imports of epichlorohydrin (ECH), a petrochemical, into India. ECH is used as a key raw material in the manufacture of epoxy resins, pesticides and ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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