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  • Kolkata DRT lawyers' strike

    ECONOMY


    Coastal SEZ project plan awaits private promoters
    THE search is on for private promoters to implement a proposal for the setting up of a special economic zone (SEZ) intended to cater to the business interests and aspirations of coastal Karnataka. With the Karnataka Government not averse to ... More

    FOREIGN TRADE


    Trade with China may cross $4-b mark: Envoy
    THE Chinese Ambassador to India, Mr Hua Junduo, on Wednesday expressed optimism over the prospects of Indo-Chinese bilateral trade crossing the $4-billion mark this year. Addressing a luncheon meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian ... More

    POWER


    KSEB plans to purchase power from thermal plants
    THE errant south-west monsoon this year is likely to compel Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to purchase power from the thermal plants in the State in order to keep the crisis from deepening further in the coming months. Contrary to ... More

    TAXATION


    Tax collections rein in Q1 fiscal deficit to 29.2 pc
    THE Government's fiscal deficit during the first three months of the current fiscal was Rs 39,560 crore, which works out to 29.2 per cent of the budgeted estimate of Rs 1,35,524 crore for 2002-03. Thanks to the buoyancy in tax collections, the ... More

    WATER MANAGEMENT


    Chennai water lorry operators on the back foot
    LAST summer, household budgets for residents in Chennai went awry as almost all of them had to pay exorbitant sums of money to buy a precious commodity — water. A number of industries too suffered, with water-intensive ones like the ... More

    BREWERIES


    Spirit of contention
    The prospects for Scotch whiskies in India post QR improve but issues of high duties remain unresolved. More

    PERSONAL PRODUCTS


    Weak monsoon may hit FMCG cos
    THE poor monsoon will not merely dent the sales of tractors, fertilisers, pesticides and other farm inputs. The resultant decline in rural incomes will also badly affect consumption of several fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), analysts ... More

    TERRORISM


    Piecing identities
    THE collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11 brought with it the grim task of identifying the victims. The job, which fell to the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's Office which typically investigates suspicious or bizarre ... More

    FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT


    HDFC among 46 FDI proposals cleared
    HOUSING finance major HDFC's proposal to bring in Chhubb Global Financial Services Ltd as minority partner in its non-life insurance joint venture with a 26 per cent stake involving foreign direct investment (FDI) worth Rs 73.76 crore including ... More

    Indian industry highly protected, says Korean Ambassador
    The Korean Ambassador in India, Mr Kwon Soon-Tae, has said that the Indian Government's ``protection policy of its local industries is far too excessive,'' which has resulted in ``very high anti-dumping duties that have been applied to imported ... More

    EVENTS


    Asian Youth Day celebrated
    BANGALORE: Levi Strauss (India) Pvt Ltd along with NGOs and youth from the local colleges celebrated the first Asian Youth Day (AYD) on August 1. The AYD is an endeavour to promote the rights of young people to participate in ... More

  • Hyderabad Engagements

    INCOME TAX


    Common man can smile again — Tax sops for more money in pocket
    THE Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, today kept his promise made shortly after taking charge this month of providing more money in the pocket of citizens by announcing more tax sops. He has also addressed the issues in the financial sector ... More

    Taxing task
    The temporary counters opened in New Delhi for filing of income-tax returns were overcrowded on Wednesday even though the deadline has been extended to August 9. Officials said the response to the campaign was good, with the majority of assessees ... More

    ECONOMIC OFFENCES


    AP Govt moots new law to check pyramid schemes
    As one of the initiatives to check financial frauds, the State had totally curbed the functioning of lotteries including those of other States and private lotteries through amendments to the Andhra Pradesh Lotteries Act, 1968. More
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