Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
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Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CLIMATE & WEATHER `Cyclone Baaz' headed for landfall on TN-AP coasts The city of Chennai and areas to the immediate north will possibly bear the brunt as the storm barrels into the peninsular coast. More NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY 
Policy to boost renewable energy sector on anvilIN a bid to provide an impetus to the renewable energy sector, the Government is drafting a comprehensive policy to promote installation of renewable energy capacities. The policy would attempt to streamline the process of awarding clearances ... More AUTOMOBILES Auto dealers body plans short-term courses A RAPIDLY growing domestic automobile market, newer technologies and the ever changing needs of the customers combined with a severe shortage of technically trained man power has resulted in the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA) ... More ECONOMY 
Farm it out, PM tells pvt sector — `Major steps taken for single integrated market'THE private sector today got a special invitation from the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to seize the immense opportunities in agriculture, both for supplying inputs and for processing and marketing the produce. Addressing the closing ... More
FERTILISERS Govt plans to decontrol fertiliser prices; may start with SSP WITH barely four months left for the UPA Government to formulate a new policy for the fertiliser industry, a proposal for phased decontrol of retail prices of fertiliser is being considered by the Government. The existing pricing system comes to ... More FOREIGN TRADE Swiss delegation woos Indian investors The delegation comprises the State Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Swiss Government, Mr Jean-Daniel Gerber, and the CEO of the Development Economic Western Switzerland, Mr Francis Sermet, and several others. Mr Gerber said that he seeks ... More
Sri Lanka woos Indian companies HEALTH Need to scale up awareness on free AIDS drugs roll-out BOTH Renuka and her four-year-old son are HIV-positive, but neither of them is on the free anti-AIDS drugs programme that the Government initiated over 18 months ago. Renuka cannot afford the mandatory health check-ups required to assess ... More INFRASTRUCTURE CII moots sectoral regulators for infrastructure THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) feels that independent regulators for different sectors in infrastructure are needed rather than a unified regulator for the entire sector. However, as a prerequisite for sectoral regulators, the Centre ... More
PETROLEUM Rising oil prices have immense revenue implications: Aiyar THE rising oil prices have immense implications for the Government with the net import bill rising by 32.1 per cent in 2004-05 over the previous year. The net import bill for 2004-05 stood at Rs 91,486 crore, the Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani ... More
Reliance to help set up gas network in AP SSI SISI training programme in Hyderabad HYDERABAD: The Small Industries Services Institute (SISI) will conduct a one-month job-oriented training programme on chemical and microbiological analysis of food and packaged drinking water from December 5. The programme is aimed at ... More TERRORISM The US dilemma in Iraq — Exiting without foul-up Many in the US administration are no doubt distressed by the loss of American lives in Iraq and the drain on the exchequer. But they must also be painfully conscious that all this would turn out to an egregious waste if they do not make sure that Ira q does not become a nest of terrorists under Al Qaeda/Taliban. Even the critics of the Bush Administration concede that Iraq has a long way to go before its administration and security forces can get on top of insurgency. It is a cruel dilemma for t he US President and his advisers, says B. S. Raghavan. More RADIO/TV Cable TV rates may go up 4 pc from Jan COME January 1, and consumers will have to fork out more if they want to get their daily fare of television entertainment. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed a four per cent increase in the monthly cable charges. Due ... More
Star Group keen to enter FM radio biz EDUCATION ICFAI B-school aptitude test on Dec 18 THE ICFAI University has announced that the ICFAI Business Studies Aptitude Test (IBSAT) 2005 for the two-year full-time MBA programme at ICFAI Business School (IBS) would be held on December 18 at 189 test centres across the country. In a ... More TEXTILE MACHINERY Korean textile machinery cos to host buyer-seller meet in Coimbatore TEXTILE entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to interface with the textile machinery manufacturing companies of Korea as the Korean Trade Centre would be hosting a buyer-seller meet here on December 1. The one-day meet would give an exposure ... More BIO-TECH & GENETICS Bannari Amman to set up incubator for biotech cos COIMBATORE: Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (BIT) is planning to set up a technology incubator for biotechnology ventures within its campus. The engineering institute promoted by the Bannari Amman group has estimated the total ... More CINEMA Plea for selective ticket price hike divides Telugu film industry THE Telugu film industry is sharply divided over the move by big producers seeking permission to increase prices of cinema tickets for the first two weeks of release of big budget films. The idea is to cash in on the image of the stars in the ... More WTO Kamal Nath to attend G-90 meet in Brussels THE Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, is to attend a meeting of the G-90 — a group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries — in Brussels on Wednesday as a special invitee, in the run-up to the Hong Kong ... More RURAL DEVELOPMENT Globalising the Indian village HUMAN RESOURCES HRD facilitators' meet in Mangalore MANGALORE: The College for Leadership and Human Resource Development, Mangalore, organised a State-level conference of HRD facilitators in Mangalore on Monday. A college release said here on Tuesday that Mr H.S. Doreswamy, freedom fighter ... More EVENTS Science festival in Mangalore MANGALORE: St Aloysius College, Mangalore, will organise a State-level science festival - `Imprints 05' - in Mangalore on December 1 and 2. Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Mr Eric Patrao, Vice-Principal of the college, said ... More EXPORTS & IMPORTS After H1 bull run, rice exports may slacken AFTER witnessing a boom in the first half of the current fiscal, rice (non-basmati) exports have begun to taper off on holidays and decline in prices of other origins. "India got an opportunity to export parboiled rice in the first half as ... More ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES `Integrate medical systems for better healthcare' INDIA should integrate traditional systems of medicine with prevailing healthcare practices for a cost-effective healthcare system. The insurance sector, too, must recognise traditional systems such as ayurveda and siddha, according to Dr ... More TOURISM Guardian Holidays offers 50% discount on companion fare THE Pune-based Guardian Holidays is offering a smart-couple offer wherein the first customer travels fully paid while the companion gets 50 per cent off on the cost. "This means the companion pays just half the cost and accounts for ... More
Fast ferry service between S. India, Colombo soon
Centre plans to outsource visa services
`Number of tourists to Australia from Western India increasing' ECONOMIC OFFENCES Anti-money laundering tool HYDERABAD: World-Check, intelligence gathering solutions provider for financial communities, and SDG Software have announced they would offer anti-money laundering solutions to banks. In a statement, SDG has informed that World Check has ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Looking back Nov. 20-Nov. 26 Shipping cos yet to ride out `service tax' storm Uniform retail drug prices across country by year-end: Paswan Dismissal from service for taking bribe set aside Now, most banks focus on SMEs Sales tax sops: Ministry not keen to encourage industry demands `World oil prices likely to settle at $64 up to 2010' Processed foods: `Adherence to safety norms vital' Crowding broadcast space to lower margins `Cement cos margins under pressure' Gold likely to increase on slowdown in US growth Hewitt study forecasts fatter pay packets for Indian employees CCEA nod for offloading of cross-holdings among oil majors India, Turkey sign MoU for oil exploration Shortage of off-the-road tyres may hit coal output Rubber traders threaten to halt exports — VAT claims yet to be refunded Fresh `low' promises another wet spell Russia keen to participate in Iran-Pak-India pipeline project IT sector's contribution to employment `not so good' |
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