Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY ANTI-DUMPING Ministries to meet today on vanaspati FOUR Union Ministries - the Ministry of Finance, Commerce, Food & Consumer Affairs and Health - is meeting tomorrow to discuss ways to handle the alleged dumping of vanaspati by Nepal. According to industry sources, the meeting is likely to ... More BUDGET Sushma wants IT treatment for entertainment sector THE Information and Broadcasting Ministry has once again sought to bring the entertainment sector on par with the IT sector. As part of the pre-Budget meeting, the Information and Broadcasting Minister, Ms Sushma Swaraj, has urged the Finance ... More COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES Lok Ayuktas to meet on Jan 17 BANGALORE: The seventh national conference of Lok Ayuktas, Lok Pals and Upa Lok Ayuktas will be held in Bangalore on January 17 and 18. The Vice-President, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, is slated to inaugurate the meet and the Deputy ... More ECONOMY Kerala Govt survey on senior citizens, agri census get under way THE State Government is taking up a comprehensive survey on the living conditions of the sizable population of the aged (60 years and above) who now constitute as much as 10 per cent (32 lakh) of the State's population (3.2 crore) and is still ... More
Govt performance satisfactory: Advisor ENGINEERING BHEL gas turbine flagged off HYDERABAD: The first indigenously manufactured advance class gas turbine manufactured by BHEL, Ramachandrapuram unit has been flagged off to the Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSEC) on Monday. The gas turbine is being ... More EXCISE AND CUSTOMS Textile Ministry proposes lower excise duty burden EVEN as the textile sector is riddled with divergent view points on what should be the applicable excise duty rate, the recommendations from the Ministry of Textiles (MoT), the administrative Ministry for the sector, seems to be adding one more ... More
`Duty cut must reflect non-cenvat payouts' PHARMACEUTICALS Sinha trains guns on spurious drug trade THE Union Health Ministry is all set to crack its whip on "the merchants of death" or spurious drug manufacturers and a commission is to be set up for this purpose. Under the chairmanship of Dr R.A. Mashelkar, Director-General of the Centre for ... More POWER Wartsila eyed for power supply to Cochin SEZ THE Cochin Special Economic Zone has tentatively identified Wartsila India Ltd, the Indian arm of the Finland based MNC, to take over and run the distribution and supply of power in the zone. Wartsila has indicated that it was planning to put ... More STEEL Pact with US on steel INDIAN steel producers and the US Government have arrived at a preliminary understanding that no single product should be exported in excess of 3 per cent of US' total import of that product. The same will also be applicable for flat products ... More READYMADE GARMENTS 35,000 papers filed for garment FCFS BUOYED by the fresh demand from the US and the EU markets, garment exporters filed almost 35,000 applications for first-come first-serve (FCFS) quotas which opened on January 10. The increased demand has resulted in high cut-off prices for some ... More TEXTILE MACHINERY Exports to Vietnam, Iran — Textile machinery sector for $200-m line of credit THE domestic textile machinery industry is exerting pressure on the Heavy Industry Ministry to put in place a $200-million line of credit it has proposed for the exclusive textile machinery exports to Vietnam and Iran. Smarting under the ... More CONTRACEPTIVES & PROTECTIVES German Remedies awareness drive HYDERABAD: Greman Remedies Ltd, the Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company, has conducted an awareness programme on the use of emergency contraceptives here on Saturday. According to the company representatives and the medical ... More GRANITE & MARBLE Chennai to host stone fair — Granite units seek policy support If the Government gave the requisite policy support, the country could virtually be the hub for building monuments in various countries, exploiting one of its finest granite deposits and the largest reserves in the world. More RURAL DEVELOPMENT Nabard chalks out micro-credit plans for 12 lakh BPL families Micro finance has emerged as a major opportunity for millions of rural poor who look forward to `deal poverty with dignity'. More TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS Beedi workers seek uniform wage policy THE Udupi and Dakshina Kannada Beedi Karmikara Hitharakshana Vedike, formed under the auspices of the Guruvayanakere-based Nagarika Seva Trust, plans to organise a State-wide rally in Mangalore on February 25 to focus on the worsening plight of ... More EVENTS 
Ethnic receptionA giant hoarding resembling the Kerala temple architecture welcomes delegates to the Global Investor Meet in Kochi. |
