The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Indian Airlines `Mera Brand'
INDIAN Airlines (IA) has bagged the `Mera Brand Award' at the Consumer World Awards 2004. IA was recently given the award after being selected as the leading brand in the Domestic Airline category. Mera Brand is based on the consumer's ... More

Bangalore agents return tickets to AI as rift widens
THE rift between airlines and travel agents has widened, with Air India along with Lufthansa and British Airways withdrawing their stock of tickets from six travel agents in Bangalore. In retaliation, most of the travel agents based out of ... More

Saudi flights to Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Saudi Arabian Airlines has become the seventh foreign airline to make Hyderabad its destination by launching direct flights from Jeddah and Riyadh beginning Tuesday. The fifth destination in India for the Saudi carrier, ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Kerala to submit memorandum for airport at Kannur
THE State Government will submit a memorandum to the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Praful Patel, when he visits the State next month, seeking the establishment of an airport at Kannur. This was decided at a meeting held on Monday under ... More

Land transferred for Thiruvananthapuram airport
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government has handed over 27.57 acres of land to the Airport Authority of India for the construction of a new terminal building at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. The Chief Minister, Mr ... More

SHIPPING

Shipping industry in a tizzy over service tax
AN Indian ship picking up a consignment in a foreign port and dropping it in another foreign port will now have to pay a service tax of 10.3 per cent on all services that the ship uses in foreign ports whenever it touches a home port. Not ... More

Tea shipments through Amingaon ICD decline
TEA shipments through Amingaon (Guwahati) inland container depot (ICD) for 2004-05 have come to a close, the total throughput for the year at 1,899 TEUs in 25 rakes being slightly lower than 1,920 TEUs (28 rakes) in 2003-04. A significant ... More

Port of call
A view of the Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal to be taken over by Dubai Ports International on April 2 as part of the Vallarpadam Container Transhipment Terminal project of the Kochi Port. The terminal will be known by the name India Gateway ... More

ROADWAYS

`High security number plates for vehicles in 2 months'
THE Tamil Nadu Government will put in place a system to issue high security registration plates for vehicles in two months' time. All vehicles in the State will have these plates in two years in line with the schedule announced by the Centre, ... More

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