The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 28, 2006

TAMIL NADU
Hill Queen launches tea, coffee
The Coonoor-based Hill Queen Agri Tech (India) P Ltd has launched consumer packs of tea and coffee for distribution all over the country. "We are sourcing the tea from our four factories. We are also buying good varieties of teas for suitable ... More

CII to press TN Govt to implement VAT
The CII will take efforts to impress the State Government on the need to introduce VAT in the State early, said Mr Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu, Chairman of CII Tamil Nadu, on Monday. Any delay would affect the manufacturing sector in the State ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Assocham, Fapcci call for repeal of ULC Act
Plea to halve stamp duty, overhaul building bylaws More

Govt, Assocham plan food processing park in South
Facility likely to tap processing capabilities and potential for export More

AP CM against hike in power tariff
The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, today turned down a proposal by the State power utilities to increase the power tariff. The power utilities in effect sought marginal hike in power tariff to offset the additional financial burden ... More

AP Govt urged not to allow Bt brinjal
`It can contaminate seed stock' More

Plea on rent control Act
HYDERABAD: The State Government's step to increase the exemption limit from Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,500 a month instead of scrapping the AP Rent Control Act is `retrograde', said the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India ... More

IFA seminar on TDS
The Sub-Chapter of the Indian branch of the Netherlands-based International Fiscal Association (IFA) is organising a seminar on TDS, EPC contracts and outbound investments here on June 30, according to a release. IFA is a global ... More

NGOs oppose Swaminathan panel report
Several NGOs here, working for the uplift of the fisherfolk in the coastal areas and conserving the coastal eco systems, have opposed some of the recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee constituted in 2004 to recommend suitable changes to ... More

Sweeping virus
CHIKUNGUNYA PATIENTS throng Fever Hospital in Hyderabad for homoeopathic medicines on Tuesday.

Study in contrast
MS MADHURYA (RIGHT) and Ms Yoga Marya, students from Canada, filming a documentary on child labour at a school for child labourers in Visakhapatnam on ... More

Best Chapter Award
The Hyderabad Chapter of the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) has bagged the `Best Chapter Award' in the country for its professional activity during 2004-06. The former Director, I&PR Department of AP, Dr C.V. Narasimha More

KARNATAKA
Karnataka Bank opens new branches
Karnataka Bank Ltd has opened its 397th and 398th branches at Guwahati in Assam and at Rash Bihari Avenue in Kolkata, respectively. A bank release said here on Tuesday that Mr Ravindra Nath Mathur, Director General of Civil ... More

Hutch launches `Fun cards' in Mangalore
Hutch launched `Fun cards' - scratch cards that offer predefined content in a tangible form - in Mangalore on Tuesday. Launching the card, Mr Samuel Selvakumar, Operations Director, Hutch, said that this is the first ever innovation in ... More

OTHER STATES
Jharkhand chalks out city development plan
43 MoUs signed for various projects More

MAHARASHTRA
Intel to advise Maharashtra co-op body
Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd will advise Maharashtra State Federation of Cooperative Credit Societies (MAFCOCS) on technology for the latter's technology and computing requirements. Under the memorandum of understanding between the two, they ... More

Montek holds talks on 11th Plan draft approach paper
The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, has said that for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012) the targeted growth rate for the country is 8.5 per cent. During the period, emphasis would be given on ... More

Mumbai airport opens new section at Terminal 1B
Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd hasopened a brand new section at Terminal 1B Departures, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA),to passengers. The terminal will be operational from June 28. "The modernised terminal (Departure ... More

UTV enters into animation deals
UTV Software Communications Ltd has informed the BSE that it has entered into animation deals aggregating to $14 million. These deals include a co-production with PorchLight Entertainment — producer and distributor of the pre-school series, ... More

GUJARAT
Godrej Aadhaar sets shop in Surat
Plans to open 20 more retail stores More

WEST BENGAL
Pecon Soft plans call centre
The Kolkata-based Pecon Software Ltd has announced the setting up of a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre at the Salt Lake Electronics Complex here at a total investment of Rs 25 crore. While initially the BPO centre would be a 60-seater ... More

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