The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Afghan airline may begin services to Amritsar soon
THE national airline of Afghanistan — Ariana Afghan Airlines - - is likely to commence operating flights on the Kabul-Amritsar-Kabul sector soon. "The airline is keen to start operating to Amritsar. We already have flights to Delhi, ... More

Good response to metro airport lease roadshow
THE operators of Zurich, Malaysia, Frankfurt, Singapore Changi and Copenhagen airports, besides some top Indian and international companies such as Larsen & Toubro, Tatas, Birlas, Mahindra and Mahindra and Mitsui today participated in the ... More

SHIPPING

SCI asked to put investment decisions on back-burner
THE Ministry of Disinvestment has advised Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) to defer taking major commercial investment decisions till the Government successfully concludes the deal to induct a private strategic partner. In a recent ... More

Bid to convert TAMP into appellate tribunal hits snag
THE Union Government's bid to convert the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP) into an appellate tribunal, is likely to run into legal hurdles. According to a senior Government official, appellate tribunals can be set up only in those areas ... More

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Concor increases rates for Amingaon ICD route
CONTAINER Corporation of India (Concor) has hiked freight on containers, both empties and loaded, to be moved to and from the Amingaon inland container depot (ICD) in the coming tea shipment season due to begin from May. The revised rates would ... More

RAILWAYS

`Result-oriented norms must to plug leak in Railway revenue'
The Standing Parliamentary Committee has urged the Railways to take "result-oriented measures to curb revenue leakages and apprise the committee of the financial impact of these measures on the Railways' financial health." More

PM flags off Fairy Queen
The Prime Minister, Mr A.B. Vajpayee, with the Minister for Railways, Mr Nitish Kumar, flagging off the Fairy Queen in the Capital on Monday to mark 150 years of Indian ... More

Wheels of history
The Indian Railways turns 150 today. And to commemmorate the day when the first train chugged down Bombay to Thane, the South Central Railway will roll out the old locomotive steam engine once again in Hyderabad on April 17. The 1955-made ... More

In full splendour
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai is illuminated to commemorate 150 years since the steam engine made its first journey in India between Bombay and Thane.

Kerala: Train timings thru IAVR
THE Southern Railway has introduced Inter Active Voice Response (IAVR) system for disseminating arrival/departure times of trains at a number of stations in Kerala. Announcing this, a Southern Railway spokesman said here that the public will ... More

ROADWAYS

Bengal may seek JBIC funds for flyover project
THE West Bengal Government is likely to seek assistance from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for the proposed 2.75-km flyover to connect North Kolkata and Howrah. The flyover would cost around Rs 200 crore. JBIC has already ... More

Ships in Ports

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