![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, December 19, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CLIMATE & WEATHER
Bay system moves parallel to coastFRIDAY'S depression over southwest Bay of Bengal beat projections to intensify and become a deep depression on Saturday over southwest Bay of Bengal. A numbered tropical storm 07B on Sunday, it lay centred about 350 km southeast of ... More NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY Canara Bank loan scheme for solar heaters CANARA Bank has come out with a scheme for financing purchase of solar water heaters at concessional rates of interest. Under the scheme, subsidised by the Union Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES), the rate of interest for ... More EXCISE AND CUSTOMS Customs dept sets up help centre at Kakinada GREATER interaction between taxpayers and the tax collection authorities is required for greater compliance and hassle-free collection, Mr V. Ramu, Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise, Visakhapatnam - II, has said. He was speaking here ... More FOREIGN TRADE France woos more Indian investors FRANCE, which has over the past two to three years rolled out incentives to attract foreign investors, is now wooing Indian corporates to make investments in the country. The last few years have already seen a significant increase in Indian ... More INFRASTRUCTURE AP, IDFC Private Equity sign up for gas grid A MEMORANDUM of Understanding (MoU) was signed here on Saturday between the Andhra Pradesh Government and IDFC Private Equity to set up the proposed State gas grid. The MoU was signed in the presence of the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajashekhara ... More POWER German co in talks with Indian power firms for carbon credits GERMAN power major RWE Power is in talks with various Indian electricity utilities including NTPC to buy carbon credits. Recently, the company's representative was in India to hunt for possible clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in the ... More
`Power subsidy regime needs modification'
CII calls for measures to revitalise energy sector TAXATION
`Synchronise service tax with excise duty structure'PRESENTING a macro view of the evolving service tax scenario in the country, especially where the Government was now emerging in terms of taxation of services, Dr Parthsarathi Shome, Advisor to the Union Finance Minister, said here on Saturday ... More
Centre, States may explore VAT rate hike to offset CST losses SSI `LLP law would help SMEs, services sector' THE three professional bills to amend the respective legislations governing the professions of chartered accountancy, cost accountancy and company secretaries would be placed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the Company Affairs Minister, Mr Prem ... More RADIO/TV Global Broadcast news channel on air GLOBAL Broadcast News' (GBN) 24-hour English news channel, CNN-IBN is finally on air. The company, which is from the Television Eighteen India stable, is a 74:26 joint venture between TV18 and Mr Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, GBN, Mr ... More
WorldSpace global base touches 1 lakh EDUCATION Private players in education field `inevitable' THE low Government spending on higher education in Kerala has made it inevitable for an increased role for private players in the education sector in the State, according to some of the participants at a seminar on `Role of Private Universities ... More
ICFAI convocation held REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Dubai company in real estate venture with MGF EMAAR Properties PJSC, a company promoted by the Government of Dubai, has announced that it is investing over half a billion dollars (over Rs 2,500 crore) in India in joint venture with a domestic real estate company MGF Developments Ltd. A ... More
Realty developers see scope in tier II cities
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