The Hindu Business Line : Friday, April 23, 2004

ECONOMY
Core industries register lower growth of 5.4 pc
EVEN as the industry as a whole is riding a boom phase, the country's core infrastructure sectors are seemingly lagging behind. The official index of six infrastructure industries have registered a growth of just 5.4 per cent during the fiscal ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Indo-South Africa `CEOs Forum' planned
INDIAN and South African business bodies have mooted the idea of setting up a `CEOs Forum', under the auspices of which CEOs of companies from both countries can meet regularly, according to the South African High Commissioner in India, Ms Maite ... More

HEALTH
Facility to accelerate efforts to detect Vitamin A deficiency at NIN
A NATIONAL facility to accelerate efforts to detect Vitamin A deficiency early among children and newborns and help boost ongoing initiatives to prevent it has become functional at the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), here. Called the ... More

POWER
PTC in Rs 800-cr deal with Punjab electricity board
POWER Trading Corporation (PTC) has entered into a long-term power supply agreement with the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB). Power for this sale transaction will be sourced from the 450-MW Baglihar hydroelectric power project in Jammu & . More

KSEB allowed to lay cables
KOCHI: The City Police has granted permission to the Kerala State Electricity Board to lay cables from Perumanoor Junction to Marine Drive on the basis of an agreement that the work should be carried out round the clock except for cable ... More

STEEL
Sponge iron makers' concern over meeting demand
SPONGE iron producers are both happy and worried over the growing demand, especially after steel producers have started charging sponge iron in their blast furnaces to overcome the imported coking coal crisis. They are happy because the ... More

HR steel output by ISA member cos up 1.08 mt
THE Indian Steel Alliance (ISA), representing the primary steel manufacturers, on Thursday said that production of benchmark HR steel by ISA member companies increased by 1.08 million tonnes (mt) amounting to 13.15 m.t. during 2003-04 from 12.07 ... More

EDUCATION
Mumbai-based institute to offer course in jewellery crafting
WITH India being a major centre in the world for gems and jewellery and with exports likely to touch $16 billion in 2007, interest in courses on gems and jewellery is growing. The latest to join the training fray is the just launched Indian ... More

WTO
NTBs a major tool to bar market access
MIDDLE and low-income developing countries and the least developed countries now confront market access barriers, which become substantially "stiffer with products with lower value added and technological content, particularly agricultural ... More

EVENTS
`Business excellence should be result-oriented'
TOTAL business excellence is predicated on the success of a well-rounded strategy that seeks to produce results across a range of definitive interfaces such as the customer, services and products, finance and market and human resources. The ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Massive fall in tea imports
THERE has been a massive reduction in the import of tea into India in 2003 compared to 2002, according to the latest information available with the Tea Board. Only 6.77 million kg were imported in 2003 against 22.01 million kg in 2002. Imports ... More

DGFT for bringing more items under mandatory quality control
THE Indian industry and other stakeholders should insist and work towards getting more items under the `mandatory quality control' norm, the Director General of Foreign Trade, Mr L. Mansingh, has said. So far, only 118 items are subjected to ... More

TOURISM
Singapore Tourism to come out with special packages
THE Singapore Tourism Board is stepping up its promotion of Singapore by twinning destinations with Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Australia, according to Ms Bridget Goh, Area Director - Southern and Eastern India, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The ... More