The Hindu Business Line : Monday, October 21, 2002

Dumping probe on caustic soda imports
IMPORTS of sodium hydroxide, commonly known as caustic soda, from Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and the EU (except France) may soon become expensive, with the Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry launching an anti-dumping probe on imports of ... More

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

`VAT needed to make India a single market'
THE Consumer Electronics and TV Manufacturers Association (CETMA) is keen to better the performance of an otherwise unpredictable consumer electronics industry. Mr Rajeev Karwal, the winner of CII's Young Manager's award this year, will don ... More

ENVIRONMENT

Green week
Employees of Standard Chartered Bank and Onyx cleaning the Marina beach in Chennai. Standard Chartered Bank celebrated "Green & Clean Week" from October 14 to 20 that included environmental activities such as saving of paper and power, painting ... More

Hazy clean-up
Weeds removed from the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad are set on fire on Sunday morning. While the lake gets cleaned, the smoke is proving to be a major pollutant.

Against the tide
A man residing on the bank of the Yamuna collects the junk thrown by people into the river in New Delhi on Sunday.

PETROLEUM

Finance Ministry rejects crude royalty proposal — Gujarat, Assam may lose Rs 350 crore
The Petroleum Ministry had, on the recommendations of an expert committee, proposed that oil-producing States be reimbursed an ad valorem rate of 20 per cent of the free-on-board price of crude. More

PHARMACEUTICALS

Higher export growth, yet — Drug cos have far to go in US
WITH exports to the US growing by over 50 per cent last year, Indian pharmaceutical sector may have notched up one of the highest rates of growth in export trade for any commodity and for any geographical area. But it is a long way off from ... More

POWER

Powerless paradox
Kerala is reeling under acute power shortage and power cuts have become routine and the recent hike in power tariff has hit the domestic and industrial consumers alike. A young computer buff working on his laptop in candle light during power cut ... More

SUGAR

Cash-strapped TN sugar mills seek purchase tax waiver
Besides the purchase tax of Rs 60, the turnover tax and surcharge work out to about Rs 85. The purchase tax in Tamil Nadu is among the highest. More

Govt support a must, says sugar industry
A SUGAR mill in Tamil Nadu that manages to reduce steam consumption by one per cent will achieve the equivalent of Rs 4.5 crore in revenue generation. Likewise, if the mill has a cogeneration facility this efficiency improvement in steam ... More

TAXATION

Kerala Govt nod for conditional VAT from next year
THE State Government has made known its intent to fall in line with the April 1, 2003 deadline for embracing the value-added tax (VAT) regime provided the Centre is agreeable to making good its revenue loss till such period as the 12th Finance ... More

WATER MANAGEMENT

Rain bane
MANY years ago, Mr Alexander Frater, then Chief Travel Correspondent of The Observer, London, toured Kerala with a BBC television crew to turn his popular travelogue, Chasing the Monsoon, into a major travel documentary for the ... More

71 pc households get protected water in Karnataka: PAC
KARNATAKA, which has ensured reasonable levels of easy access to basic public services, has to improve the levels of quality and reliability to the satisfaction of the users. Only one-third of the population across the State has expressed full ... More

DISINVESTMENT

Hitch over sale of residual stake in Modern Foods
MODERN Food Industries (India) Ltd launched the Government on the strategic sale path of disinvestment/privatisation of public sector undertakings. But, contrary to the official version, the Government is yet to conclude the transaction for ... More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Micro credit empowers women in Kolar villages
Autonomy, flexibility, peer pressure and discipline are the hallmarks of the concept that has inspired many an institution to come forward to help the women's groups. More

EVENTS

Agenda for the week

INCOME TAX

Review of I-T exemptions, rates on cards
THE former Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, left personal income-tax rates unchanged in five Budgets, based on his belief that they were reasonable. His successor, Mr Jaswant Singh may, however, change tack going by indications that the ... More

TOURISM

Travel rush goes Down Under
AUSTRALIA seems to be the flavour of the season, if one were to go by the number of inquiries that travel agents are receiving about Down Under. Since there are no direct flights to Australia, Indian passengers who have to transit through ... More

BOOKS

Where are we heading?
Economic Policy Reforms and the Indian Economy
Edited by Anne O. Krueger
Publishers: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Price: Rs 595 More

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