INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
CLIMATE & WEATHER
Monsoon revival likely by next week: Forecast
THE southwest monsoon may have lulled to a customary pause somewhere over the peninsula one month after onset, but it is expected to head off the intermission mode and rev into life in a week's time. The unleashing of this `second spell' will ...
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MET SIGNS
Wet spell abates in Kerala
ACCORDING to the Agromet Advisory dated June 21 issued by the Thiruvananthapuram Met Office, the southwest monsoon was weak over the State on June 20. Rain occurred at `most places' on June 17, 18 and 19 and at `many places' on June 20. Chief ...
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BUDGET
Karnataka: `Anomalies in taxation will be removed'
KARNATAKA is preparing itself to meet the deadline of April 2005 for the implementation of the Value-Added Tax (VAT), which is expected to lead to rationalisation of taxes and simplification of procedures that have been the bane of the trade and ...
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ENGINEERING
`Include branded pumpsets in farm loan package'
THE pump industry in Coimbatore region, which accounts for nearly 50 per cent market share for branded pumps catering to the agricultural sector, has sought inclusion of farm pumpsets in the credit package announced by the Union Finance Minister, ...
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ENVIRONMENT
Environment Ministry to simplify regulatory norms
THE Government has adopted various steps to simplify and process the regulatory approvals for sectors like the environmental and forestry clearance, coastal zone regulations and Genetic Engineering Approval Committee in a "time-bound" ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
Chamber hails proposal for comprehensive NFTP
THE PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) has welcomed the Government's proposal for a comprehensive National Foreign Trade Policy (NFTP). The Chamber has said that there should be a single point interface between the various ...
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HEALTH
Biocon Cuban venture adds 3 cancer vaccines
BIOCON Biopharmaceuticals, the joint venture with Cuban research company CIMAB, has said it has added five more products to the proposed portfolio. These will now include two additional monoclonal antibodies and three cancer vaccines, according ...
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New units at CGHS in Thiruvananthapuram
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) facility here is going to have ayurvedic and homoeopathic units attached to it. Announcing this here, an official spokesman said that Mr L. Kuriakose, Chief Commissioner of ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
CSEZ offers to fund Mangalore zone
THE Cochin Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) has indicated its willingness to participate in the funding for improvement of connectivity to the Mangalore SEZ, being developed as a private sector initiative. Mr Paul Antony, Development Commissioner ...
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PETROLEUM
Fuelling the fire?
KEROSENE prices untouched, LPG up Rs 20. Populism? Hardly. According to the 2001 Census, 7.8 million rural households (a little more than one in 20) use LPG for cooking; only 2.2 million use kerosene. As for the urban households, 25.8 million ...
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STEEL
Steel wire cos seek change in excise on wire-drawing process
STEEL wire producers have said that the industry is in a precarious position following a Supreme Court judgment that keeps the process of drawing wires from wire rods out of the excise net. According to a release issued by the Steel Wire ...
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TAXATION
Mangalore Mayor's plea on SAS
MANGALORE: The new Mayor of Mangalore, Mr Purandaradas Kuloor, who assumed office on Tuesday, said that he would urge the State Government to abandon its decision to impose self-assessment system (SAS) of property tax in the city. ...
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SSI
AP sanctioned Rs 1 cr for cluster development
THE State will get nearly Rs 1 crore for development of 12 industrial clusters in agro, textile and components for the financial year 2004-05 from the Development Commissioner, Union Ministry of Small-Scale Industries. The clusters to be ...
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WATER
Movement for `water literacy' advocated
WATER should become everyone's business if India is to cope with the water shortages that confront most parts of the country, said Ms Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment. Inaugurating a workshop on rainwater harvesting ...
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Jacob promises water scheme by Sept `05
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Minister for Water resources, Mr T.M. Jacob, has said that the massive drinking water scheme for Ernakulam City, West Kochi and Vypeen being implemented with the assistance of the Housing and Urban Development ...
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Water levels increase in Kerala dams
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Water levels at the three major reservoirs of the State, namely Idukki, Idamalayar and Kallada, registered rise compared to the levels obtained the previous week. According to figures released by the Central Water ...
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BREWERIES
UB leads industry push to include alcoholic beverages in SAFTA list
THE UB Spirits Division (UBSPD), the world's fourth largest spirits marketer, along with the rest of the Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) industry, is pushing for the inclusion of alcoholic beverages in the list of tradable commodities under the ...
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EDUCATION
Bring education cess under Cenvat: Chamber
THE PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) has urged the Finance Ministry to evolve a mechanism to enable those assessees who for any reason have not been able to conform to service tax rules to graduate to the service tax mainstream ...
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Drop everything and read
KERALA can lay proud claim to being India's First State, as far as the fine art of reading is concerned. Naturally, therefore, observation of June 19 as Reading Day and the entire week as Reading Week was in keeping with the State's longstanding ...
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FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING
Centre planning integrated food law
THE Union Government has initiated steps for bringing out an integrated food law to help achieve international standards in food processing. This was stated by the Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Mr Arun Kumar, at ...
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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Somasekhara panel revived
THE Andhra Pradesh Government has revived the Justice BK Somasekhara Commission to probe into the Yeleru land scam, which rocked the State during the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) rule. The Government issued an order on Tuesday, reinstating the ...
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LEATHER
Kolkata tanners form body to run effluent plants
A SECTION of city tanners has formed a body to run the common effluent treatment plants at the Kolkata Leather Complex (KLC), which is expected to become operational soon. The Calcutta Tanneries Development Committee, formed last week, has a ...
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INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
CII chief urges sops for capacity expansion
THE newly elected President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, would prefer to focus energies on `implementation' rather than `ideation' during his one-year tenure as the head of the apex industry organisation. ...
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FOODGRAINS
AP foodgrains production target set at 172 lakh t
THE State Government is targeting a production of 172.68 lakh tonnes of foodgrains, 31.61 lakh tonnes of oilseeds and 20.15 lakh bales of cotton this year. The Government proposes to increase the productivity of crops by 5 per cent over the best ...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ISRO, Boeing in talks to make satellites for global markets
THIS could be an early sign of the US and India "giving each other space" as the US Ambassador put it. Boeing Satellite Systems and ISRO are in talks for manufacturing and marketing 2-tonne communications satellites for the global market. The ...
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Space projects on Indo-US priority list
INDIA and the US have put high-technology commerce, including for civil space programme, on their priority list for co-operation and are taking steps to create the necessary environment to enhance it based on mutual trust. This was the conveyed ...
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FASHION
NID seeks Govt nod to go global — Plans blueprint for design policy to enable outsourcing
THIS operation has been titled `Designed in India... Made for the World'. Getting developed at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, this label is to become a reality in the next one decade, or thus hopes the country's design gurus. ...
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Rs 600 cr for toilets in Maharashtra villages, but open fields are more inviting
"Even now, women tend to go out in groups to the fields" because it is "the only time they get to socialise.
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EVENTS
Engagements
In Hyderabad today
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
Drop box service for US visa discontinued
THE US Embassy and the US Consulate Generals in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata are ending the `drop box' facility for submitting US visa applications. In a statement, the Embassy has said that the change in the process will affect only the limited ...
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Exporting food, losing water
THERE is a new government in New Delhi. The NDA regime had made much of food `export', as an election plank. That food export was morally wrong, when millions of Indians starve, is just one aspect of this charade. ...
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US high-tech exports to India rise sharply
HIGH-technology US exports to India, including dual-use ones, have risen dramatically since the Bush Administration lifted post-Pokhran sanctions in September 2001, according to the US Under Secretary of Commerce, Mr Kenneth Juster. In the ...
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STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Sabol gets accreditation
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