The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 22, 2003

IA launches debit card with ABN-Amro
MR Sunil Arora, Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Airlines, today launched the airline's co-branded debit card with ABN-Amro Bank and MasterCard International. Indian Airlines ABN Amro Bank Maestro co-brand debit cardholders will be ... More

Alliance Air to fly Chennai-Kovai direct from today
INDIAN Airline's subsidiary Alliance Air will run a direct flight from Chennai to Coimbatore from Tuesday. The flight, a Boeing 737, will be a tri-weeklyand will run on Tuesdays, Thurdays and Saturdays, according to Indian Airlines sources. ... More

Kuwait Air to restore services from April 28
WITH the conflict in Iraq coming to an end, the international aviation industry is slowly limping back to normalcy. Kuwait Airways (KA) today not only announced the withdrawal of a $20 surcharge on a return ticket, but also said that from April ... More

SHIPPING

Vizag refinery poised to process BH crude
THE Vizag refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, known as Visakh refinery, will start processing Bombay High (BH) crude soon, perhaps for the first time. The first consignment of 50,000 tonnes of BH crude will shortly arrive at ... More

Transporters' strike hits work at Kochi Port
It is pointed out that more than 1,000 TEUs of import cargo was lying in the port stack after unloading from vessels since last week. More

RAILWAYS

Rlys starts moving perishables
THE Indian Railways has started running "perishable specials" to transport essential commodities to meet the situation arising out of the truckers' strike which entered the eighth day today. Responding to the circular issued in this regard by ... More

ROADWAYS

More State units break ranks — No meeting point yet on truckers' demands
THE eight-day old nation-wide strike called by the transporters to press their 10-point charter of demands appears to be losing steam with reports from Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal and to a certain extent from Kerala indicating ... More

Police authorised to deal with truckers targeting vehicles
Steps have been taken to bring in essential goods in specially commissioned carriers and distribute them through 700 outlets of Supplyco and 200 outlets of Horticorp. More

Steel goods movement comes to a halt
AS the truckers' strike enters its ninth day on Tuesday, the steel manufacturers are a worried lot. According to some of the country's largest steel makers, they are facing a serious problem because lifting by trucks at the railway yards and ... More

Elders discuss truckers' strike
THE ongoing truckers' strike reverberated in Parliament on Monday with the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha demanding immediate intervention of the Government to resolve the deadlock and save the economy from severe consequences. The issue was ... More

Truckers' strike hits textile mills
Sandwiched between the lorry agitation and the slowed down weaving operations, most spinners are faced with cash-flow problem. This, according to sources, has already caused delayed payments to raw material suppliers, namely cotton traders. More

Truckers' strike called off in Bengal
THE week-old truck strike in West Bengal was withdrawn today following a meeting between the State Transport Minister, Mr Subhas Chakraborty, and the Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators Association. An office-bearer of the Truck ... More

Truckers' strike hits Kovai engineering industries
THE on going truckers' strike has dealt a body blow to the engineering industries in Coimbatore region which have run up an estimated sales loss of about Rs 80 crore to Rs 100 crore. While established engineering units have reportedly resorted ... More

KCCI for PM's intervention to end strike
THE Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has asked the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to intervene in order to put an end to the ongoing transporters' strike. In a letter to Mr Vajpayee, the KCCI President, Mr G. Giridhar ... More

BMTC's `Rainbow' scheme
BANGALORE: The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has instituted insurance, medical reimbursement and benefit scheme for its pass- holders under the `Rainbow scheme'. According to sources, under the scheme, ... More

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