The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, June 10, 2006

Prasan Cuisines plans restaurant chain
Prasan Cuisines Private Ltd plans to set up a chain of vegetarian restaurants branded Sandeepha, initially in Chennai, followed by a Tamil Nadu footprint before taking it overseas. Mr R. Rangarajan, Director, Prasan Cuisines, ... More

SSN applies for deemed varsity status
SSN Institutions has applied for Deemed University status, which it expects to get in 2007. The group has planned to introduce the four-year Mechanical Engineering course next year. It has introduced Chemical Engineering ... More

BSNL to expand cell phone service
The Tamil Nadu Circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is taking steps to provide on demand, its services, namely, basic phone, broadband and mobile phone, according to the Chief General Manager. Mr K. Sridhara. Speaking at the ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Deloitte employees take to voluntary work
About 3,500 employees of Deloitte and India, participated in a major social work initiative and dedicated about 30,000 hours of voluntary service, touching about 30,000 lives. This is part of a social event Impact Day and is amongst a major ... More

KERALA
CPT chief stresses need for tank farms
The Chairman of the Cochin Port Trust, Mr N. Ramachandran, has emphasised the need for setting up tankfarms in the port area for the storage of liquid cargo. "It is the legitimate activity of the port to import and export liquid cargo and for ... More

Soccer season offer from hotel
To cash in on the World Cup soccer season, Hotel Highway Garden, the 3-star hotel here, has announced special schemes and programmes for the next three months at its restaurant named The Stadion. The hotel has already arranged a ... More

Centre gives KSEB another 6 months for restructuring
State Power Minister's appeal granted More

KARNATAKA
Karnataka Bank targets Rs 620-cr farm credit
Karnataka Bank Ltd has proposed to disburse Rs 620 crore of fresh credit to agriculture sector during 2006-07. A bank release said here on Wednesday that the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Mr Ananthakrishna, finalised this ... More

States likely to see slippages in revenue deficit targets
Interest, debt servicing consume 15 pc of receipts More

OTHER STATES
Orissa PSUs' jt venture to set up thermal plant
The Orissa Government on Friday announced that two State public sector undertakings will form a joint venture company for setting up a 2000 MW thermal power plant in the State. The proposal, which was cleared by the State Cabinet, said that ... More

Chittaranjan Loco gearing up to meet higher production targets
Special focus on multi-sourcing, bulk ordering More

Jindal Photo opens photo institute
Jindal Photo Ltd, marketers of Fujifilm in India, on Friday launched a photography training institute in Delhi. The `Academy of Photographic Excellence' will conduct a one-year diploma course apart from short-term weekend ... More

MAHARASHTRA
GM likely to set up new plant in Maharashtra
Shortlisting models for production in India More

LG Electronics launches optical disk drive operations
Consumer electronics, IT products and home appliance manufacturer, LG Electronics India today announced the commencement of operations of its greenfield facilty for Optical Disk Drive (ODD) products at Ranjangaon, Pune. The company will invest ... More