The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 06, 2007

TN lorry owners asked to keep off Karnataka
The State Lorry Owners' Federation-Tamilnadu (SLOF-T) has asked the truck operators from the State not to ply their vehicles to Karnataka till normalcy was restored there. In a statement, Mr P. Sengodan, President, SLOF-T, Namakkal, said in ... More

Gratuity payable for all days worked till superannuation: HC
Non-payment of gratuity to a worker for all days worked till date of superannuation was against the provisions of Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, Madras High Court has ruled. Directing a Chennai-based company to pay dues to him for nine days in ... More

A consolation, says Karunanidhi
Welcoming the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's award, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M. Karunanidhi, on Monday said the State had received justice, for which it had been waiting for long. The award is of consolation to him and it would ... More

Conference on groundwater from tomorrow
The third international groundwater conference will be held at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) here from February 7-10. The Union Water Resources Minister, Prof.Saif-ud-Din Soz, will inaugurate the conference. Ministers Mr Veerapandi ... More

Cauvery delta farmers welcome verdict
Farmers in the Cauvery delta in Tamil Nadu have welcomed the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's final award. They hope it will provide a permanent solution to the long-pending issue. The final award, which allots 210 tmc ft (thousand million ... More

Aircel extends coverage in TN
Aircel, one of the mobile phone service providers in Tamil Nadu, today brought Amaravathi in Coimbatore district under its network, taking the total number of towns covered by it to 800 in the State. Mr K.V.P. Baskar, ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
DuPont, IICT plan seminar
DuPont and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), here are jointly organising a one-day seminar on `Fluorine compounds in pharmaceuticals and agrochemical industries' on February 9. The seminar would bring experts from India, France ... More

AP woos hardware, semiconductor cos
SemIndia project has taken off: CM More

Brandix begins production at VSEZ
Brandix India, which is setting up an apparel city at Atchyuthapuram in Visakhapatnam district on 1,000 acres allotted by the State Government, has started commercial production at the temporary facility in the Visakhapatnam ... More

AP to continue cloud seeding for 5 years
The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to continue the cloud seeding experiment continuously for the next five years from 2007-08. For this purpose, the JNTU, Hyderabad has been named as the monitoring agency. The Chief Minister Dr Y.S. ... More

Vizag port creates record
The Visakhapatnam port established a record on February 2 by discharging 4,913 tonnes of alumina powder in bulk with a gang shift output of 328 tonnes from the vessel, m.v. Kanda, at EQ-6, surpassing the previous best ... More

KERALA
Sow weeds in the sea and reap a windfall
The weed has application in industries such as food, pharma-ceutical and aquaculture. More

Kerala disappointed with tribunal award
The Cauvery Tribunal's verdict on the inter-State river water dispute is disappointing, according to the State Water Resources Minister, Mr N.K. Premachandran. He said that the Kerala Government had demanded 99.8 TMC feet of water, which was ... More

Fishery development programme mooted for Kuttanadu farmers
The rice-fish rotational farming system enhances the income of the farmers by 40 per cent with significant saving on rice production and makes rice farming more organic and remunerative. More

KARNATAKA
Cauvery verdict: No impact on business in Bangalore
Some IT, BPO firms close earlier for the day More

Subir Raha to get honorary membership in Kanara chamber
Mr Subir Raha, former Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd, will be presented with the honorary membership of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) in Mangalore on February 10. Mr Raha will ... More

OTHER STATES
Rajasthan annual Plan pegged at Rs 11,638 cr
Highest priority to social, power sectors: CM More

MAHARASHTRA
Meet on colorants in Mumbai
An international convention on colorants will be held in Mumbai between February 7 and 9. The convention, organised jointly by the Dyestuffs Manufacturers Association of India and the Mumbai's Institute of Chemical Technology, ... More

Efkon may set up software centre in Mumbai
Efkon, the Austrian-based Intelligent Transportation Systems provider, is planning to set up a software development centre for its global solution development requirements in Mumbai or Pune. "The development centre might come up at a SEZ ... More

WEST BENGAL
Bengal re-imposes prohibitory orders
Mamata calls off proposed visit to Singur More

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