The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 21, 2011

STATES

KARNATAKA: Machine tool sector seeks Rs 2,000-cr corpus
The machine tool industry has sought financial incentives and support from the Government such as soft loans and a phased corpus of Rs ...

KERALA: German team visits Technopark campus, IT Mission
A five-member delegation from the German city of Kaiserslautern visited Technopark campus and the office of the Kerala State IT Mission here ...

KARNATAKA: Karnataka sunflower, groundnut oil prices headed north on fall in output
Bt cotton, maize replace sunflower; groundnut damaged by drought, rain. Prices of groundnut oil and sunflower oil in the State are set to increase this year because of a shortfall in production, according to a price-forecast exercise undertaken ...

KERALA: SBI officers' body meeting to begin on Saturday
The 4th Triennial General Body meeting of the State Bank of India Officers Association (Kerala Circle) will be here on Saturday and Sunday at Mother Teresa ...

KARNATAKA: Dakshina Kannada faces shortage in milk production
The Dakshina Kannada Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd has expressed concern over the shortage in the production of milk in ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: AP Finance Minister asks Centre to create hedge fund to protect States
The Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr Anam Ramnarayana Reddy, has appealed to the Centre to create a hedge fund or a mechanism to protect States against exchange rate fluctuations in the externally-aided project ...

TAMIL NADU: Coimbatore to host ‘Fabtec India 2011'
The second edition of sheet metal fabrication, welding technology, painting and coating show styled ‘Fabtec India 2011' to be held from January 21-25 here is expected to generate business worth about Rs 100 crore, according to Mr ...

KERALA: Fall in NRE deposits in Kozhikode district
The fall in NRE deposits base of banks in Kozhikode district continued in the second quarter ended September ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Better infrastructure, land bank sought for Vijayawada
Vijayawada needs a land bank and better infrastructure to achieve growth in industrial sector, tourism and other fields, according to Mr K. Pardhasaradhi, Minister for ...

OTHER STATES: Powering Bihar ahead
There is nothing unique in running a thermal power unit at full capacity, but Bihar State Electricity Board (BSEB) has hardly had a power station in shape for decades. Naturally, a few months down the line when BSEB's 25-year-old defunct unit ...

KERALA: Enter Tech sets up software, training divisions
The Technopark-based Enter Technologies, an information technology-enabled services company (ITeS) with operations in medical transcription and financial business process outsourcing, has announced the setting up of separate software ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Zuari Industries opens lab in Tirupati
Zuari Industries Ltd has launched a high-tech Soil Testing Laboratory here on Wednesday. It is the third such lab, after the ones in Pune ...

KERALA: UK biz school programme
The UK-based ShadWell'S is venturing into Post-Graduate Programme in Engineering Management at ShadWell'S International Business School, Info ...

KERALA: Thomas Cook ties up with UAE Exchange
Thomas Cook, a provider of foreign exchange services, has entered into a strategic tie up with Xpress Money, a service offering of the UAE Exchange and Financial Services Ltd, for foreign exchange remittances ...

KERALA: Pepper futures slide on bearish activities
Pepper futures on Thursday dropped on bearish activities in spite of additional purchases amid ...

KERALA: Dubai official to visit Kerala soon to settle Smart City issue
A representative of the Dubai Supreme Fiscal Committee (DSFC) is expected to visit Kerala shortly in a bid to break the logjam over the long-pending Smart City project in Kochi. Being co-promoted by the Dubai-based Tecom Investments, a ...

KERALA: Canara Bank credit linkage programme held
The suburban Neyyattinkara branch of Canara Bank in association with the Circle Office of the bank based here conducted a credit linkage programme for self-help groups/joint liability groups (SHG/JLG) at Neyyattinkara on Wednesday. The aim was ...

KERALA: ‘Demand for ayurveda growing'
A team of 24 doctors from various universities of Great Britain attended a one-day seminar on Ayurveda at the Punarnava Ayurveda Hospital campus here as part of Continuing Ayurveda Awareness Program (CAAP), an initiative by the hospital. ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: CCMB scientists bag J.C. Bose fellowship
Four Scientists of the city-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have bagged the prestigious J.C. Bose National Fellowship-2011. Dr Ch. Mohan Rao, Director, Dr R. Nagaraj, Dr Veena K. Parnaik and Dr Ghanshyam Swarup, ...

WEST BENGAL: Eastern Rly earnings go up
Between April and December 2010, Eastern Railway handled three per cent more originating traffic vis-à-vis the corresponding period last year, 39.54 million tonnes (38.4 mt). Earning from the originating traffic during the period was up ...

KERALA: Demand to restore kerosene quota
The Minister for Food, Mr C. Divakaran, has requested the Centre to immediately restore the 4,404 kilolitres (kl) of kerosene cut from the State's quota. The Minister recalled that the quota had been cut from 23,160 kl to 18,756 kl from ...

KARNATAKA: Rajesh Exports opens service centre
Rajesh Exports, which runs the ‘Shubh' chain of jewellery outlets in the State, has opened the ‘Shubh Service Centre' which promises to bring in transparency while selling gold for money or buying new jewellery. At the service ...

KARNATAKA: Starrag Heckert machining centres
Starrag Heckert Machine tools Pvt Ltd India, a subsidiary of Starrag Heckert AG, has launched a new range of WMW horizontal machining centres. The company will be initially importing them from Germany and subsequently localising the product. ...

WEST BENGAL: Bengal discoms merged
The West Bengal government today decided to merge West Bengal Rural Energy Development Corporation (WBREDC) with parent West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (WBSEDCL). The amalgamation is likely to be completed in the next ...

KARNATAKA: Students architecture meet inaugurated
The 53rd annual convention of the National Association of Students of Architecture, ‘Utopia 2010' was inaugurated. More than 3,500 students from across India and SAARC countries Nepal and Pakistan are participating in the four-day ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: New head for Energy Coordination Cell
Former Press Secretary to Chief Minister and Executive Director, Mr A.Chandra Sekhara Reddy, today took over as the head of the newly created Energy Coordination Cell (ECC). Mr Reddy will be the Member-Secretary of the ECC which will have ...

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