The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 13, 2006

Paramount Airways to set up hangar in Chennai
Paramount Airways plans to set up maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) hangar in Chennai, according to Mr M. Thiagarajan, Managing Director, Paramount Airways. He said Paramount Airways has been allotted 10,000 sq. ft space in Chennai airport ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH

Service tax collections go up in Hyderabad
The Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax (Hyderabad Zone) has registered a record service tax collections of Rs 709.70 crore during 2005-06 against Rs 440.03 crore in 2004-05. With the service tax registering a whopping 61.28 per cent ... More

AP bids to shore up sale prices of farm produce
Pulses, tamarind among crops to benefit from intervention More

Animation film `Lava-Kusa'
The Kanipakam Creations and RVML Animation Studios will produce the animation film `Lava-Kusa' the mythical twins of Ramayana. The $5-million film, which is expected to be released next summer, is being made in Hindi, English and ... More

SCR to take up work on two new lines soon
Plan panel gives green signal More

Tata AIG operations in Vizag
Tata AIG General Insurance Company Ltd on Wednesday announced the launch of its full service operations here. Mr Madhava Endlur, Assistant Vice-President, inaugurated the branch in Dwarakanagar. He said the company would offer ... More

KERALA

Online medical exams
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) has conducted online exams for postgraduate medical and dental courses for the first time in the country. Around 7,000 students registered for the online exam, which was conducted at ... More

New conference hall
Falcon Chambers, a modern conference hall with video teleconferencing and presentation facilities and featuring Wi-Fi Hot Spots, will be soon launched here. The fully air-conditioned structure has been set up as part of the ... More

KARNATAKA

Actor Rajkumar dead
Veteran Kannada actor and Dadasaheb Phalke award winner Rajkumar died here, after a heart attack, on Wednesday. He was 77. The thespian actor had a career spanning nearly six decades and 205 films. Born on April 24, 1929, in Gajanur on the ... More

`World of opportunities beckons entrepreneurs'
There are more opportunities for the entrepreneurs to make a mark in a global market, according to Mr B. Sambamurthy, Chairman and Managing Director of Corporation Bank. Inaugurating a two-day entrepreneurship development camp organised by the ... More

IT cos may declare holiday today
The city's IT organisations began shutting down their offices as news of Kannada matinee idol Rajkumar's death began trickling in on Wednesday afternoon. Spokespersons of a few IT companies told Business Line they planned to declare a ... More

OTHER STATES

Pergo showroom in Delhi
Swedish flooring company Pergo on Wednesday unveiled an e-showroom at its design centre in Delhi. The showroom enables a computer simulation of colour change of walls and upholstery to match the flooring according to the ... More

Jharkhand to set up infrastructure corpn
To be structured on public-private partnership model More

Landmark Holdings to invest in Vipul's SEZ
Landmark Holdings of the Dalmia Group, along with its international affiliate Banyan Real Estate has decided to pick up 16.5 per cent stake in the Rs 1200 crore Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project of Vipul, in Gurgaon. Vipul's SEZ project aims ... More

Goa co-op bank in expansion mode
Scouting for partners, products; focusing on increasing profitability More

Pearl Academy to open MBA colleges
With the course focussed on entrepreneurship, design institute Pearl Academy of Fashion is venturing into management education by setting up MBA colleges beginning from the 2007 session. The first college would be set up in either Greater ... More