INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
AWARDS & HONOURS
SCOPE award
THE Chairman and Managing Director of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Mr Subir Raha, has won the `SCOPE award for excellence and outstanding contribution to the public sector management' in the individual category. The award carries a ...
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BUDGET
Interim Budget on Feb 3
THE suspense over early Lok Sabha polls is over, with the Government convening a short session of the two Houses of Parliament to present and pass the vote-on-account of the Railways and the General Budget. Briefing presspersons here on ...
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PETROLEUM
First LNG shipment from Qatar to arrive on Jan 29
THE first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) is all set to arrive in India from Qatar on January 29. The ship carrying the LNG will dock at the Dahej terminal in Gujarat, according to the Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas ...
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WATER
`Interlinking of rivers will create more jobs'
THE Chairman of the Taskforce on Interlinking of Rivers, Mr Suresh Prabhu, has highlighted the need for river interlinking for the development of the nation. Delivering a lecture at a programme organised by the Vishwa Saraswat Sammelan ...
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RADIO/TV
FM cos told to pay up licence fees
THE Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry appears to have declined all requests to defer payment of licence fees even as it is working overtime to complete the reform process in the FM radio business before the forthcoming general ...
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AUTOMOBILE COMPONENTS
MNCs to outsource auto components worth $ 1.3 b
MAJOR global multinational players Electrolux, Caterpillar, Kautex Textron and Eaton plan to outsource auto components worth more than $ 1.3 billion by 2005 from Indian component suppliers. This was disclosed at the global outsourcing summit ...
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Now, auto component cos get design savvy
EVEN as it is preening time for automobile majors at the seventh Auto Expo, currently on in the Capital, auto component manufacturers are not to be left behind. No longer do they consider themselves mere `spare parts shops', but on their way ...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
New coating tech to prevent corrosion
THE Central Electro Chemical Research Institute (CECRI) at Karaikudi, near here, has developed a new corrosion resistant thermal coating technology to protect steel structures from high pressure, temperature and corrosive environment. ...
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INTERVIEW
Exporters can breathe easy soon with electronic data interchange
IF exporters still crib over the delay in import-related services such as getting advance licence, export promotion capital goods scheme (EPCG) approvals and other irritants like double verification at commerce and customs side, they can bury ...
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EVENTS
Shourie to lead team to WEF meet
THE Union Minister for Disinvestment, Information Technology and Communications, Mr Arun Shourie, is to lead India's presence at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland. The six-day meeting begins on January 20. ...
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PEOPLE
EPW Editor Krishna Raj passes away
MR Krishna Raj, Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, passed away in his sleep on Friday night. According to his family members, Mr Raj, 67, was keeping normal health and had attended office on Friday. Mr Raj took over as editor ...
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