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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

ANTI-DUMPING


Duty on graphite electrodes import to be reviewed
THE designated authority in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India has initiated sunset review investigation into the anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of graphite electrodes from the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, China, France ... More

ECONOMY


AP: Rs 16,510-crore annual credit Plan okayed
BUOYED by the substantial achievement under the annual credit Plan for the fiscal ended March 31 2002, the Andhra Pradesh Government has approved an annual credit Plan of Rs 16,510 crore for the current fiscal as proposed by the State-level ... More

ENVIRONMENT


Twin effluent treatment systems installed at Perundurai CETP
EVEN as the Tirupur-based dyeing and bleaching units are struggling to meet the State pollution control board's directive on bringing down the rate of totally dissolved solids (TDS) released in the treated effluents, the newly formed common ... More

PHARMACEUTICALS


MNC investment plans `drugged' in patents
MULTINATIONAL pharma companies have, in the past, insisted on a strong patent regime as a precursor to increasing investments in India. Have these companies set back their investment clocks by a couple of years, given the present avatar of ... More

Hyderabad to host global pharma meet
THE Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association (BDMA) has announced here on Tuesday that an `international conference on pharmacopoeial standards for bulk pharmaceuticals' would be held at Hyderabad from September 22 to 24. In a press release, the ... More

POWER


  • KPTCL gearing up for monsoon

    TEXTILES


  • Karnataka: Panel to draft textile policy

    SSI


    Bommasandra Industrial Area -- To make growth happen
    There are total of over 700 units in the Bommasandra Industrial Area of which less than half are active at this stage. This industrial area was started about twenty years ago. In the early days of its development, this industrial area suffered ... More

    Banks urged to lend more to small sector
    THE small scale sector is far less responsible for the build up of non-performance in banks. The banks should recognise this fact and be more flexible in lending to the SSIs, Mr C P Rangachar, Chairman— National Council for Small Industries ... More

    Scaling record heights
    The Bommasandra Industrial Area (BIA) boasts a wide array of manufacturing facilities and even though they are in the small scale sector, their growth through technology absorption coupled with innovations and good customer service has added ... More

    Stellar performance, varied products
    The Bommasandra Industrial Area has been one of the important clusters that has provided Bangalore a pre-eminent position among the industrialised states in the country. Despite the bottlenecks of poor infrastructure and other operational ... More

    WATER MANAGEMENT


  • Karnataka Govt plans water quality maps

    BREWERIES


    Shaw Wallace, UB shunting out smaller brewers in AP
    CONSOLIDATION in the Indian beer market is gaining speed. Smaller brewers conceded market space to the domestic beer majors, United Breweries (UB) Ltd and Shaw Wallace Breweries Ltd (SWBL), in the buoyant Andhra Pradesh beer market during the ... More

    MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS


  • Kerala: Licensing for mental health centres

    REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION


    Vaastu has its way everywhere
    An apartment dweller loads his toilet with large stone blocks, with one stone perched on the water cistern (vaastu requires a large load and no water at that spot). A petty shopkeeper spends Rs 3 lakh to break and rebuild several doors and walls of h is house and a printing press owner puts up a skylit dome in his living room. More

    INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS


    FIEO to elect new chief on June 11
    THE continuing vacuum at the top, owing to absence of a full-fledged president, at the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) is now set to end. The FIEO Managing Committee, at its meeting in New Delhi last week, has decided to hold ... More

    BIO-TECH & GENETICS


    Software for gene data study from LION Biosciences
    The software named `sequence retriever system' can dig into the more than 800 biological databases put together so far by various global corporates and research institutes in the post-genome mapping era since 2000. More

    SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY


    Fly lab — a key research facility at CCMB
    THERE is a transgenic Fly Lab in Hyderabad! Are you surprised? Perhaps! the country's first laboratory to use fly models for scientific research is functioning at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here. And scientists are ... More

    DISINVESTMENT


    A costly miss for Indian Oil?
    THE biggest casualty in the long drawn-out IPCL disinvestment story, which was finally concluded last weekend, is undoubtedly Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). The public sector company, which arguably had as much at stake as Reliance Industries ... More

    IOC, ONGC submit EoI for stake in EIL
    INDIAN Oil Corporation and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) have indicated their intention to pitch for the Government's 51 per cent stake in Engineers India Ltd (EIL). This follows their submission of expression of interest (EoI) ... More

    FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT


    Shyam Tele among 39 FDI cases cleared
    SHYAM Telecom Ltd's proposal to induct Mauritius-based India Communications Global Partners as 10 per cent equityholder in the company involving a foreign direct investment (FDI) worth Rs 73.50 crore including premium was among the 39 FDI ... More

    HUMAN RESOURCES


  • Static display by Air Force

    LABOUR REFORMS


    `Industry must assuage labour fears'
    THE Minister for Labour and Rehabilitation, Mr Babu Divakaran, has suggested that the managements should consider allocating a part of their earnings every year in a retrenchment reserve so that there will be sufficient funds to meet such ... More

    TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS


  • Kerala: `Wrong signal to investors'
  • NCL plea to enforce labour laws

    EVENTS


    Bengal Chamber plans to showcase Bankura town
    THE Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BNCCI) will hold a three-day exhibition-cum-seminar in Bankura town, the district headquarters of Bankura district, in the first week of October with a three-fold objective of promoting ... More

    INCOME TAX


    Trash the taxing form
    An income-tax consultant from Kolkata turns tax into an exciting online opportunity. More

    TOURISM


  • Lighting system for Varkala beach
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