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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY PENSION PLANS Insurers can bid to be pension fund managers The Ministry of Finance has finally decided to allow life insurance companies to put in bids to fill up the slots that would be up for grabs to become pension fund managers (PFMs) under the proposed new pension system. The move would come as a ... More ECONOMY India entering golden era, says Deutsche exec "DISCOVER India. Not the India of yore known for its spiritual traditions but `India of the 21st century', a country on the move," said Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, addressing a gathering of businessmen and State heads at the Asean ... More
$54-m IBRD aid for food, drugs projects
8 pc GDP growth possible this year, says Lahiri
GIM projects still remain a pie in the sky FOREIGN TRADE FICCI team to sign MoUs with Thai bodies A 19-MEMBER high-powered business delegation of FICCI, led by Dr A.C. Muthiah, President, will visit Thailand from October 9-11, coinciding with the Prime Minister, Mr A.B. Vajpayee's visit to participate in the Asean Business and Investment ... More HEALTH `Eyecare awareness low among school children' A SIGNIFICANT number of school children who are troubled by problems of eye-sight in the country are not even aware of their predicament, according to a nationwide survey by Bausch & Lomb and the Vision Improvement Experts Working Council (VIEW), ... More POWER T&D losses lower by Rs 16,000 cr THE country's power transmission and distribution losses reduced by Rs 16,000 crore last fiscal from Rs 33,000 crore in the previous year, Mr Anant Geete, Union Minister of Power, said here on Wednesday. The reduction was a result of efforts ... More
Nagarjuna Power construction contract — Chinese consortium, BHEL, Alstom in fray
Madras HC upholds tariff hike for HT consumers TAXATION 
`VAT is the key for economic growth'"States lose over 50 pc of their tax collection due to corruption. VAT would can enhance value for State governments and release them from various debt traps," Dr Ramesh said. More TEXTILES Additional textile quota for US, EU THE Ministry of Textiles has decided to release additional export quota for the European Union and the US of textiles items (yarn/fabric/made-ups) under the ready goods entitlements (first-come first-serve) category opening for the fourth ... More BREWERIES Steady rise in prices of glass bottles — UB, SABMiller plan alternate beer packaging BREWING majors are pursuing alternative packaging solutions as glass bottle prices have steadily climbed in the last one year. The leading domestic brewers United Breweries Ltd (UB) and SABMiller-Shaw Wallace combine separately disclosed that ... More BEVERAGES Pesticide residue issue: JPC hearing today FROM pesticides in beverages to worms in chocolates, the subject of food safety could not have come at a more opportune time - even as the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) goes in for its next hearing on the pesticide-residue issue on ... More GEMS & JEWELLERY Special purpose vehicle planned for Hyderabad Gems Park; KPMG enlisted A MALAYSIAN firm IOI, Mumbai-based Geetanjali Group associated with Nakshatra range of jewellery and the Andhra Pradesh State Trading Corporation, will form a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to be associated with the proposed Gems and Jewellery ... More REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Advani moots private-public co-operation in housing THE housing sector could become "an engine of growth" of the economy if the private sector came together with the public agencies to achieve the goal of housing for all by year 2010, according to the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr L.K. Advani. "The ... More METALS Copper industry woos auto cos THE copper industry has begun to lobby end users such as vehicle manufacturers in the country to promote use of copper in ancillaries. The Swedish company, Outokumpu Copper Strips' representatives, met with Ashok Leyland officials this week in ... More KNITWEAR & HOSIERY Mixed views at Tirupur interface THE interface with the garment buying houses and agents organised as part of the India Knit Fair agenda at Tirupur threw mixed responses in the discussions the knitwear producers/shippers had. While some portions of the interactive session ... More BIO-TECH & GENETICS `Bioquest Kerala' on Oct 21 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Association of the Department of Biotechnology, comprising staff and students at the Government College at Kariavattom near here, is organising a State-level seminar on biotechnology, titled Bioquest Kerala, on ... More PAINTS Exterior paints add lustre, strength to industry FOR the paint industry, which has been on an upward growth curve, one segment has been propelling growth - exterior paints. This segment has been growing at a compound annual growth rate of 25-30 per cent in the last couple of years, ... More DISINVESTMENT IOC willing to buy Govt stake in HPCL INDIAN Oil Corporation has verbally offered to the Government to buyout the latter's stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). The move comes more as a counter to the Government's move to explore the possibility of privatising the ... More WTO Cancun failure loss to developing world: EU THE European Union (EU) on Wednesday said that the failure of the Cancun Ministerial of the WTO has "short-changed the aspirations of the developing world in particular and the momentum that was generated prior to the Cancun has certainly been ... More IPR `Vigyan Rail' to promote science info THE Chairman of Vigyan Prasar, a body under the Department of Science and Technology, Mr M.V. Kamath, said that a 15-coach "Vigyan Rail" would tour the nation for nine months to propagate information on science. Speaking at the valedictory ... More SOCIAL WELFARE ActionAid scheme for underprivileged in AP IN a fund-raising campaign to benefit the poor, sex workers, Dalits and riot victims, ActionAid India Society (AAIS) has introduced `Karm Mitra' in association with ICICI Bank and Om Kotak Mahindra. Karm Mitra, the "donor loyalty programme", ... More RURAL DEVELOPMENT Stress on non-farm activities MANGALORE: The Director of Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Mr Monnappa, has emphasised the need for taking up non-farm activities and floriculture in Dakshina Kannada district while implementing the group-based ... More EVENTS INCOME TAX Kolkata I-T zone mop-up at new high NET tax collections (both corporation and income-tax) of the Income-Tax Department's Kolkata Zone have achieved a record increase of 107.74 per cent for the period April-September 2003 (up to September 23) over that in the previous corresponding ... More CO-OPERATIVES Governing body dissolved in Mangalore MANGALORE: The Karnataka Government has dissolved the governing body of Janata Bazar in Mangalore, a unit of South Kanara Central Co-operative Wholesale Store (SKCCWS), according to Mr Suresh Ballal, former member of the governing ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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