The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 26, 2003

Summer rains have just a cooling effect
Sadly though, these rains are not sufficient to do the `filling up' job in the State's reservoirs, most of which are running dry. The Met Department has declared in the long-range forecast, attempted for the first time last week, that there is a poss ibility that rainfall could be below normal during the south-west monsoon this year. More

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY

Central aid for solar energy to AP villages
THE Andhra Pradesh Government has got Rs 8 crore from the Centre for deploying alternate energy, especially solar energy to electrify 52 villages in the districts of Adilabad and Prakasam during the financial year 2003-04. The State Government ... More

Solar heaters turn economical
HYDERABAD: Solar water heaters are fast becoming economically viable, with the technology maturing and the banks having come forward to give soft loans to individuals and corporates. Banagalore, Pune and Hyderabad are cities where their ... More

ECONOMY

The phenomenon of `energised inflation'
HIGHER energy costs have contributed nearly a third of the increase in wholesale prices over the last decade. The `fuel, power, light and lubricants' (FPLL) group may have a weight of only 14.23 per cent in the official Wholesale Price Index ... More

Karnataka's annual Plan pegged at Rs 9,620 crore
KARNATAKA'S annual plan size for the current fiscal has been fixed at Rs 9,620 crore including an additional Central assistance of Rs 36.27 crore for special schemes. This was decided at a meeting here between the Planning Commission Deputy ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

India, Chile PTA soon
A PREFERENTIAL trade agreement (PTA) between India and Chile is on the anvil with a proposal for such a pact under active consideration of both the Governments. This was indicated when the Foreign Minister of Chile, Ms Maria Soledab Alvear, ... More

HEALTH

SARS may put Kerala health model to test
The prevailing climatic conditions, with cloudbursts alternating with a battering sun during the peak summer season, could well provide any new virus the right medium to spread and create havoc. More

SARS scare in South
THE latest scare of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has came from South India today with reports of possible cases coming in from Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram and Cochin. Dr S.P.Agarwal, Director-General of Health Services (DGHS), ... More

Tentative FDA nod for Ranbaxy drug
THE US regulatory authority has granted a tentative approval to Ranbaxy for its generic version of Serzone, an anti-depressant tablet from the US-based pharma company, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). BMS is the original patent-holder, with its ... More

CIFT develops life-saving drug
SCIENTISTS at the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT) here have separated `squalene' from shark liver oil, which can be used as a life-saving drug. The product developed for the first time in the country has been approved by the ... More

TAXATION

Jaswant concerned over State VAT laws `non-conformity'
"The VAT Bills to be presented for Presidential assent and those already received for such assent will need to incorporate the latest set of recommendations of the Empowered Committee." More

VAT on life-saving drugs — A matter of semantics
HOW does one define life-saving drugs when all drugs are important to one's life at some point or the other? This is a fix that the Government would have to resolve in a hurry — even as the final call on the VAT rate on life-saving drugs ... More

WATER

Water levels decline in Kerala

RADIO/TV

Radio cos seek task force to look into issues
TOP honchos in the radio business including Mr Vineet Jain of Entertainment Network, Mr Arun Poorie of Radio Today, Star India Chief Mr Peter Mukherjea, and Mr Gautam Radia, Managing Director, Millenium Broadcast today met the Information and ... More

Cable operators in AP coastal dists plan blackout
CABLE operators in the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh and several other parts of the State have decided to stop transmission of programmes from the midnight of Friday for 24 hours in protest against "the attitude of the Vijayawada police ... More

EDUCATION

`Management education should shed urban bias'
THE West Bengal Governor, Mr Viren J. Shah, has said that management education should be centred around rural India and farm activity, where millions of people are having their livelihood. He was addressing the inaugural session of the golden ... More

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS

Karnataka: Land sought for health sub-centres

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION

Chennai, Bangalore real estate values firm up
The suburban and peripheral areas continued to remain the preferred destinations for large space occupiers for developing their campus style facilities. More

Safety workshop on construction

ALUMINIUM

Conference on aluminium takes off
ALUMINIUM is an eco-friendly and biodegradable material, which is increasingly substituting wood, and this has become a boon for saving forests and the environment, the Union Minister for Mines and Minerals, Mr Ramesh Bais, said while ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS

ICB-2003 meet from Monday

DISINVESTMENT

BPCL sees hurdles to ADRs — Seeks protection from US Act provisions
SOX, a friendly nickname for the recent American enactment, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, has literally socked Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd's proposed ADR issue slated for December this year. A fall-out of this Act is that directors of companies ... More

HC declines to extend stay in Jessop case
MR Justice K.J. Sengupta of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to extend the "stay of operation" on the order passed on March 28, 2003, holding that the decision to disinvest shares of the Union Government in Jessop & Co Ltd (JCL) was ... More

WTO

Collective wisdom key to WTO meet: Jaitley
AS developing countries' expectations for substantial progress in a host of areas since last year's Doha Development Round began to be realised, countries like India have two major challenges for the next WTO Ministerial to be held in Cancun in ... More

`India to benefit from WTO'
IF India can use the art of negotiation well, then the country stands to benefit a lot under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime. This was stated by the Minister for Law, Justice, Commerce and Industry, Mr Arun Jaitley. He was ... More

SOCIAL WELFARE

Vocational scheme for women

TOURISM

IATO asks South to make itself saleable
THE Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) has called upon the southern States to put in place "world-class infrastructure, including comprehensive networking and competitive transporting facilities" to woo tourists to this part of the ... More

Study identifies tourism bottlenecks in Kerala

ECONOMIC OFFENCES

Corruption is just a local call away
THERE are many who go up and up in life, but I decided rather to come down from a third floor flat to the ground floor, getting tired of years of climbing all the 99 steps with no mystery at the end but an open terrace. As it happens with any ... More

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