The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 18, 2002

Venkaiah Naidu defends Narendra Modi
Mr Naidu hinted at some more Ministers leaving the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government after the monsoon session of Parliament is over, to take up leadership assignments in the States. More

STATES

Focus on Pondicherry — Resourceful plans
Faced with a loss of revenue due to the switch over to the uniform floor rate of sales tax, the Pondicherry Government is banking on tourism and information technology to help it generate additional resources. "The Centre asked us to switch ... More

Improving the industrial climate
The Pondicherry Government has taken a conscious decision to encourage the knowledge-based and other environmentally friendly industries. While the existing industries welcome this move, the old economy industries are disappointed that the focus ... More

Taxing problems
With the shift towards uniform floor rates of tax and the Value Added Tax regime expected to be introduced in April 2003, Pondicherry, is fast losing its primary feature — low rates of tax that attracted investments by the industry. With a ... More

Pondicherry: Going the software way
Pondicherry hopes to promote itself as a preferred destination for IT investments. It has emerged a base for major hardware assemblers. Just a hop, skip and jump from Chennai, which has emerged a major software development destination, the Union ... More

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