Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, November 14, 2002
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES Nilgiris tea growers move HC for fixing minimum price SMALL tea growers of the Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu have filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court praying for a suitable direction to the Commerce Ministry to fix a minimum price of Rs 15 per kg for green tea leaves produced by ... More ECONOMY Business confidence at June level: NCAER THE business confidence index (BCI) - a barometer of India's business outlook- in October 2002, being tracked by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has not altered from the June 2002 level, after three successive quarters ... More EXCISE AND CUSTOMS New excise official takes charge COIMBATORE: Mr N. Krishnamurthy has assumed charge as the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise in the newly formed Coimbatore zone. The Coimbatore Zone consists of Central Excise/Customs Commissionerates of Tiruchi, Madurai, ... More FOREIGN TRADE Indo-Malaysian chamber to boost trade ties A GROUP of Malaysian Indian professionals has set up the Indo-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce, which will be headquartered in Chennai. The Chamber will be formally launched in January. Mr Muguntha, Founder-President of the Indo-Malaysian Chamber ... More HEALTH Gates Foundation denies role in vaccine purchase THE top brass of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that is supporting the $ 25-million immunisation project in Andhra Pradesh, has categorically stated that they have no role in ... More
Wockhardt programme to prevent AIDS PETROLEUM Niko strikes gas NIKO Resources Ltd, Canada, has made the first discovery in the blocks awarded under the second round of the New Exploration and Licensing Policy (NELP II). The discovery of gas has been made in the onland block CB-ONN-2002/2 near Surat in ... More PHARMACEUTICALS Govt to clamp down on spurious drugs CONSUMERS worried about the increasing incidence of spurious drugs can take heart — the Centre is considering tightening the norms for ensuring safe and quality drugs. With the aim of moving towards zero error concepts in manufacture and ... More POWER Industries don't want to bear brunt of power politics THE policy of continued free supply of power to the farm sector in Tamil Nadu promises to become a contentious issue with the farmers demanding its continuance and the industry arguing that it should not be made to underwrite the loss incurred by ... More
Global energy meet begins tomorrow TAXATION 
Anil Ambani pitches for stable tax regimeMR Anil Ambani, Vice-Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), has pitched for a stable and sector-specific tax policy regime, saying that frequent amendments and changes in the interpretation of the Income-Tax Act could impact on investment ... More
Rethink on some Kelkar proposals TRAVEL & PLACES Passport adalat in Chennai on Nov 23 CHENNAI: The Chennai Regional Passport Office is organising a Passport Adalat on November 23 at Shastri Bhavan. This programme, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will deal with applications filed this year till the end of ... More WATER MANAGEMENT BWSSB adalat today BANGALORE: A BWSSB water adalat to settle disputes connected to water billing, delay in getting water supply and sanitary connection, delay in conversion from non-domestic to domestic connection and other disputes will be held on ... More COAL CIL against arms taking tie-up route THE State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) has decided in principle not to encourage its subsidiaries to set up new coal mining projects through the joint venture route. The projects identified for the Tenth Plan would be set up by the subsidiaries on ... More FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING Snacking gets cracking While the ethnic snack foods market remains highly fragmented, a clutch of organised players, both homegrown and multinational, are giving the unbranded sector a spirited fight. More HANDLOOM Realistic count of handlooms urged A GROUND level and realistic survey on the number of handlooms in Tamil Nadu has to be done, according to Mr T. Kannan, Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Southern Region. This suggestion flows from a general consensus in the ... More KNITWEAR & HOSIERY Italian cluster keen on tie-up with Tirupur ITALIAN help is on hand for knitwear exporters of Tirupur in the form of addressing production, management, outsourcing and financial needs of the industry, besides technology upgradation, to compete effectively in the post-MFA regime from ... More
Raw material consortium on the cards for Tirupur BIO-TECH & GENETICS Bangalore to host biotech meet in April WITH biotech being the buzz-word and given the good response to similar summits over the last two years, the Karnataka Government and the Vision Group on Biotechnology have announced Bangalore Bio 2003, scheduled to be held between April 15 and ... More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 
Canada, AP tie up on geomaticsTHE Governments of Canada and Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) here to set up a framework for collaboration in areas of geomatics, geoscience and geographic information technology. Mr Herb Dhaliwal, ... More NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING FDI norms issued for tech specialty magazines THE Government has issued detailed guidelines for foreign investments in publication of Indian editions of foreign technical, scientific, specialty magazines, journals and periodicals. According to the norms, a company planning to bring out the ... More GENDER 
Help at hand for womenVanitha Sahayavani (VSV), a helpline initiative for women in distress, was set up by the Bangalore City Police in January 1999. Any person can dial the telephone number 1091 and launch complaints of harassment. Volunteers and women police ... More FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT `Deregulatory slackness slows FDI flow' Mr N.K.Singh pinpointed the huge backlog of de-regulatory agenda in Parliament as one of the primary reasons that was holding up larger inflow of FDI into the country. More WTO `WTO panel must give priority to farm sops' THE Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has welcomed the Government's decision to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) on WTO matters, which would expedite the country's decision-making process on the important multilateral ... More SOCIAL WELFARE CRY reports to donors on how the money is spent "REVENUES in the first quarter have grown compared to the corresponding quarter last year, income is up by 8 per cent while income from product sales remains constant." Nothing out of the ordinary about these statements; just the kind of ... More EVENTS China to hardsell diverse products at Delhi fair CHINA, which is participating in a big way in the India International Trade Fair opening here on Thursday, is keen to attract investment and expand co-operation to further develop Indo-China trade and economic relations. "We welcome our friends ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
Top Stories In Depth Gender Justice Simple Economics Small Investor Looking back Nov. 3-Nov. 9 Use of anti-dumping measures declines — China `dumps' the most, while India probes the most `FDI computing system needs changes' CII pegs GDP growth rate at 5.4 per cent 319 medicinal plants of Indian origin endangered Asia-Pacific CEOs see bleak year ahead for world economy Bill Gates thrust this time is healthcare Export drive helps reduce mounting foodgrain stocks PSUs worried over funds in IFCI Kelkar hits salaried class the hardest Lanka may outstrip God's Own Country Pension, social security cover for unorganised sector on the anvil Pay thru the roof Ethanol blended petrol to cost up to 75 p less |
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