Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, December 03, 2002
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY ECONOMY Plan panel report provides Assam tips for growth AGAINST the average all-India rate of growth of Gross Domestic Product of 6.68 per cent during the period 1993-94 to 1999-2000, Assam registered a growth rate of 2.19 per cent State Domestic Product in this period on an average per annum. This ... More
Hardly working in Kerala FOREIGN TRADE TN yet to open account in HK markets While the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Governments had taken a keen interest in Hong Kong and China, other State Governments, even Kerala and West Bengal, had sent trade delegations to Hong Kong. More HOTELS INFRASTRUCTURE 
N-E States showcase info-tech potentialBETTER air and telecom connectivity coupled with proactive steps to overcome the `image problem' are prerequisites to investment in the Eastern and North-Eastern States, most of which offer liberal tax sops to attract investment. The investor ... More PETROLEUM Arab oil, gas show to be held in Dubai next year THE buoyant oil and gas sector in West Asia is expected to thrive following the discovery of new reserves following recent exploration results. The organisers of the prestigious Arab Oil and Gas Show, scheduled to be held in Dubai next year, ... More TAXATION SSI WATER PERSONAL PRODUCTS Counterfeits costing FMCG cos dear INDIAN industry loses about Rs 4,000 crore per annum due to competition from counterfeit products or look-alikes. Mr Bharat Patel, Chairman, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care, speaking at the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) organised ... More RADIO/TV Zee-Turner to bring Reality TV IF you are a couch potato deriving pleasure in watching car chases, emergency services or any other live action, here's Reality TV for you. Zee-Turner Ltd, the subsidiary of Zee Telefilms Ltd, is planning to distribute the UK-based Zone ... More FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING Rs 250 cr may be earmarked for food parks THE Ministry of Food Processing Industries has proposed Rs 250 crore of the total Tenth Plan outlay of Rs 650 crore to be earmarked for schemes of infrastructural development, including the setting up of food parks. This was stated by the ... More INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS Assocham signs MoU with French body THE Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alsace Development International (ADI), France. The MoU, aimed at promoting commercial and cultural relations between ... More
FICCI for more accountability for CEOs, CFOs
P.K. Jain is new PHDCCI chief
Auto makers seek lower duties
BIO-TECH & GENETICS CCMB, Cardiff varsity pact for biosciences research THE Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and the Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, based in Cardiff, Wales, have entered into a memorandum of understanding to promote cooperation in the biosciences area covering ... More NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING No easy shift to mags for foreign book publishers IT'S not going to be an easy transition from books to magazines for foreign publishing houses operating in India. If any of these publishing houses plan to bring out foreign journals and magazines, they would have to adhere to the sectoral norms ... More DISINVESTMENT 
Jaswant to make pitch for divestmentTHE Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, is set to make a forceful case for reviving the disinvestment process in the `mid-year review of the economy' to be tabled by him in Parliament on Tuesday. Mr Singh had at the recently concluded G-20 ... More
States urged to give list of hotels for divestment FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT S&N plan for fully-owned arm cleared THE proposal of the UK-based Scottish & Newcastle Plc to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in India with a capital base of Rs 400 crore in order to form strategic partnership with domestic liquor producer UB group was among the foreign direct ... More IPR IPR holders' terms to come under Competition Law "A need was felt that if anti-competitive behaviour takes place after granting of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), it should be brought under the surveillance of the Competition Law with reasonable restrictions", official sources said. More
CSIR figures among top 50 US patent applicants LABOUR REFORMS Comprehensive labour law for unorganised sector in offing THE Lok Sabha was told today that the Government would bring an umbrella labour legislation for the unorganised workers in the country during the Budget session early next year to take care of every concern of this important and preponderant ... More INTERVIEW `More German FDI will flow once markets open up' — Mr Heimo Richter, German Ambassador in India More FDI is bound to come once new sectors are opened up. For example, in insurance Allianz and in banking Deutsche Bank have entered. As markets open up more big companies are bound to come. More EXPORTS & IMPORTS Sugar import norms tightened IN a major setback for importers of raw sugar, the Commerce Ministry has tightened the standard input output norm (SION) for such imports at zero duty against advance licences (AL). Henceforth, duty-free import of only 1.05 tonnes of raw sugar ... More
Kerala Govt thinking big on export front
US buyers hunger for value-added shrimps TOURISM Orissa ties up with CII to woo domestic tourists The tourism sector would boost economic growth in the State, which has been hit by natural calamities, low investments from outside and unemployment. More ECONOMIC OFFENCES `Law soon to tackle white-collar crimes' THE Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, today said that the Government would soon introduce a legislation on Serious Frauds Office (SFO) to track white-collar crimes, even as Parliament today approved the legislation to give more teeth to the ... More
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