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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY ECONOMY
Lack of will hampering growth, says PrahaladINDIA has a good knowledge base and all the prerequisites to achieve 10 per cent growth rate but it lacks the will to put it to best use, Dr C.K. Prahalad, Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Business ... More
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Tax reforms vital for 8% growth, says CII ENVIRONMENT Kerala: Panel moots Bill for increasing tree cover THE first report of the State Law Reforms Committee has proposed a Kerala Promotion of Tree Growth in Non-Forest Areas Bill, 2002, with the express purpose of amending existing laws on trees and transit of timber so as to encourage farmers to ... More FERTILISERS K-G find spurs plans for fertiliser units IN the light of the recent discovery of natural gas in the Krishna-Godavari basin and West coast, the Union Government has plans to revive proposals for setting up additional ammonia and urea manufacturing capacity within the country, according ... More FOOD & DAIRY PRODUCTS Biscuit industry sticks to tried and tested recipes GROWTH in the over 40-year-old Indian biscuit industry has remained slow. Back-of-the-envelope calculations will show that per capita consumption is less than Rs 3 per month on biscuits or less than Rs 15 per household per month. This is ... More FOREIGN TRADE Czechoslovakia keen to expand trade contacts THE Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade of Czechoslovakia, Mr Miroslav Somol, has called for greater efforts to explore and grow the trade potential between the two countries. Addressing a meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian ... More INFRASTRUCTURE
AP: Rs 12,000-cr refinery among 41 MoUs worth Rs 17,204 cr signedFORTY-ONE projects worth Rs 17,204 crore, including a major Rs 12,000-crore petroleum products project of Transworld Corporation USA Inc, an Rs 260 crore speciality paper project of ITC and several biotech and tourism projects are among many new ... More
Vizag-Hyderabad LPG pipeline PHARMACEUTICALS
Watershed year for diabeticsTHE year 2003 may turn out to be a watershed for diabetics. It started with Eli Lilly (India) slashing the price of human insulin by 33 per cent in a single stroke. In a few months, Wockhardt and Biocon India plan to introduce human insulin in ... More POWER TNEB to get more thermal coal via coastal route IN the current quarter (January-March), Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) will receive more thermal coal by the coastal route than it did in the previous quarter (October to December). At the recent coal linkage committee meeting, TNEB ... More SSI `Modify credit norms for SSIs' THE forthcoming Budget should address the two main problems of the small-scale sector, namely, the high cost of funds and the poor infra-structure, the Confederation of Southern Small Industries Association (Conssia) has said. In a pre-Budget ... More
Codissia in spot over trade fair complex Seeks grant to meet SIDBI commitments DISINVESTMENT Bickering Ministries hold up HPCL divestment The Petroleum Ministry has suggested that the successful strategic buyer should be bound to complete the 9-million-tonne Bhatinda refinery by building suitable clauses in the shareholders' agreement for the sale. More IPR Nations must innovate, patent IPRs "NO developing nation can survive unless it can sell something to some other nation and to do so most effectively in a technology-oriented world, it would be imperative to focus on issues veering around Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and ... More INTERVIEW
`GDP may run upstream thru river link' Mr Suresh Prabhu, Chairman, Task Force on Linking of RiversMR Suresh Prabhu, former Union Minister for Power, has no regrets over having to vacate the portfolio. For, the task that has been entrusted to him as Chairman of the three-member Task Force on Linking of Rivers is of far greater importance, ... More
EVENTS Kerala: Investors' meet attracts 560 delegates so far AS many as 560 delegates have so far confirmed participation at the Global Investors' Meet (GIM) being organised by the State Government in Kochi on January 18-19. This is in excess of a maximum of 500 delegates expected by the Government and ... More
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