The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, March 28, 2006

NID branches out into Bangalore
The nation's design hub has now branched out into Bangalore. The National Institute of Design's new R&D campus will tap the IT city's software advantage to make design innovations in at least four new areas: for the masses, sensitive design ... More

CLIMATE & WEATHER

`Warm pool' to buoy wet session
Thunderstorms, hailstorms in the next few days More

ECONOMY

CAG cautions AP on getting into debt trap
Rising ratio of fiscal liabilities to GSDP More

FOREIGN TRADE

India, GCC States may sign economic pact next year
India and the six-member GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) States will sign a comprehensive economic agreement, that includes a wide-ranging free trade agreement, in March 2007, according to Mr Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Commerce and ... More

London Mayor invites Indian investors
D1 Oils, Nandan Biomatrix tie-up for jatropha research centre More

China body signs trade pact with ICC
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PETROLEUM

No urgency to bifurcate GAIL's biz: Ministry
Gas marketing and transportation More

Iran confident about natural gas project with India
Iran has said that the Indo-Iran relations are on track and promised good news on the natural gas project. The visiting Iranian Vice-President, Mr Rahim Mashaee, expressed confidence about the proposal to supply gas to India and said that good ... More

TEXTILES

Textile, apparel SEZ coming up in Karnataka
A textile and apparel special economic zone is to be set up here with an export potential of Rs 2,500 crore. The SEZ, which is expected to attract investment worth Rs 1,250 crore from manufacturers from different parts of the country, is expected ... More

TYRES

Dunlop pact formalised
The Dunlop India Ltd will commence production at its factory in Ambattur here on or before August 31, according to a formal agreement signed between the Dunlop Factory Employees Union and the management representatives, according to the Union's ... More

COAL

Proposals to improve coal output
A set of recommendations has been drafted by the Technical Committee here to improve production of coal in a safe and economic manner in the domestic coal mines based on detailed discussions and deliberations at the `National workshop on safe ... More

RADIO/TV

CAS meet: Stakeholders differ on pricing of channels
Broadcasters are in favour of bouquet pricing and not come out with a list of individual channel prices. More

New logo for SaharaOne
The channel's new logo retains the company's distinctive saffron and green stripes next to the company name Sahara. "The new logo designed by Yellow Frog a design outfit of Percept H, part of Percept Holdings Company, gives SaharaOne Television ... More

CARS

Maruti launches two driving schools in Kerala
Candidates are given on-the-road training in Alto, Wagon-R or Esteem More

GEMS & JEWELLERY

Antique jewellery range from Kirtilals
Coimbatore-based retail jewellery chain Kirtilals launched its largest antique jewellery collection in Bangalore on Monday. About 1,000 pieces of exclusive design, created in-house will be on display for a month starting March ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION

CONSTRUCTING COIMBATORE

Riding the realty boom
Billed as emerging IT hotspot, the city is bracing up for rising demand More

Builders' invasion: Is there room for all?
The entry of the infotech industry is crucial to capacity absorption, say builders. More

Loan options galore
For home buyers, property acquisition provides both tax relief and safe investment More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

`Nano tech, the new wealth creator'
Integration of nano, biotech will raise farm, industrial output More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

`They want basic rights, but you call it social fuss'
"Orissa's tribals have been displaced multiple times by industries, power projects... the so-called development processes. The people have lost their land and resource base several times... People are being thrown out of their homes and land, and w hen they demand their basic rights you call it social fuss." — MS K. BHANUMATHI, DIRECTOR OF SAMATHA More

Gangavaram port row: Fisherman killed
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

DGCX plans to introduce currency futures
The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) on Monday announced that the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (ESCA) has approved its application for launching currency futures trading. Initially DGCX will trade futures contracts in ... More

EVENTS

Textiles performance evaluation meet
Indian Statistical Institute, Coimbatore, is holding a one-day textile seminar on multi-discipline performance evaluation here.on Tuesday. The presentation of the seminar, to be held jointly with the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of ... More

Meet on personnel management
There is a need to constantly innovate for organisations to develop intellectual capital in them, according to Dr A.K. Balyan, Director, Human Resources and Business Development, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. ... More

INCOME TAX

PAN holders can view tax statements online
Useful to verify if taxes deducted have been passed on to Govt account More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS

4% duty likely on Lankan pepper
Import curbs More

India gains edge in par-boiled rice market
One lakh tonnes contracted for exports since January More

Electronics, IT exports to grow 27 pc in 2005-06
ITES, BPO industry to grow 37 pc to $ 6.3 b More

TOURISM

Bid to lure Indians
MR ENRIQUE RUIZ de Lera, Director for SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand and India, the Spanish Tourism Board, with Ms Paloma Notario Bodelon, Director of New Markets, at a press conference in Mumbai on Monday. The Spanish board views the Indian ... More

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