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Car production growth low, but exports rise: CII
THE consumer durables sector has continued to grow steadily during April-November 2002 as compared to the same period in the previous year, according to the latest Ascon industry survey conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industry ... More

CEMENT


Exim Bank recipe to raise cement exports
THE Government can create enabling conditions for the domestic cement industry to penetrate the markets of neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka by negotiating for a zero tariff dispensation for cement and clinker exports. A ... More

ECONOMY


Initiate fiscal reforms, Plan panel tells Assam
THE Assam Development Report of the Planning Commission has unequivocally urged the State Government to initiate fiscal governance and public enterprise reforms to restore fiscal sustainability, improve governance and get over the low growth ... More

Something to tickle the midriff
After years of dealing with diplomats and dictators, Jaswant knows how to wear out people. By the time he comes up with his Budget, you would be too wearied to say anything. More

ENVIRONMENT


Helping them live
Environmental visionary Ashok Khosla, who has created jobs for thousands of rural and urban poor in India, was presented with the prestigious 2002 UNEP- Sasakawa Environment Prize recently. Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United ... More

Awareness drive on e-waste in January
ELECTRONIC waste is the new focus of an environmental campaign planned by two Bangalore-based organisations. Project Agastya and the Environment & Health Foundation would launch an awareness drive on the increasing electronic waste or discarded ... More

FOOD & DAIRY PRODUCTS


Kelkar panel likely to lower excise for food products
THE Kelkar panel on indirect taxes has decided to review its original recommendation of levying 8 per cent excise duty on all food products currently enjoying duty exemption. The panel was now looking at the option of proposing a lower excise ... More

FOREIGN TRADE


US trade gung-ho on reforms front
MR Frank G. Wisner, former US Ambassador to India, who is heading the high-level trade delegation currently visiting India, said the US trade bodies were highly bullish on the Indian economy and were looking at stronger trade and business ... More

HEALTH


100 PHCs offered for adoption by private agencies
IN an innovative scheme to improve public health delivery system, public health centres (PHCs) in Karnataka are now being offered for adoption by the private sector. The scheme allows private medical and dental colleges, qualified NGOs and ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE


Port-based SEZ set to boost economy
WITH the Union Government notifying India's first Port-Based Special Economic Zone (PBSEZ) spread over more than 1,000 acres at Vallarpadam and Puthuvypeen, the Cochin port is all set to herald a new beginning in the economic development of the ... More

POWER


TN to set up biomass-based power projects
TAMIL Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), on behalf of the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), has called for applications from private promoters to set up biomass-based power projects, according to a TEDA release. TEDA ... More

  • KSEB cuts penal levy for additional load

    RADIO/TV


    World Cup cricket hits serials, films for a six
    IF you are looking for an entertainment alternative during the World Cup cricket, you are bound to be disappointed. The World Cup is not only expected to bring this cricket crazy nation to a halt, but also keep both the television and film ... More

    EDUCATION


    Secunderabad to have international school soon
    THE Delhi Public School (DPS) Society which runs more than 100 schools spread across different States in the country and abroad is making preparations to start a school in Secunderabad from the next academic year in collaboration with Vidyananda ... More

    DISINVESTMENT


    Post-deal, foreign stake in SCI can top 25%
    FOREIGN shipping lines have stayed away from bidding for Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) due to the 25 per cent limit on foreign shareholding prescribed by the Government out of the 51 per cent being put up for strategic sale. However, the ... More

    TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS


  • Wage dispute at Premier Tyres settled

    EVENTS


    K-bip workshop on banana-based food processing
    KERALA Bureau of Industrial Promotion (K-bip), an autonomous body of the State Government, is organising a one-day technical workshop on `Development of banana/plantain-based food processing industry' on December 12 at Hotel Residency ... More

    ENTREPRENEURSHIP


    A neat tie
    TALENT, innovation, ideas, enterprise - the qualities that form the pillars of a competitive industrial society are also the qualities that lie behind the acronym TiE, which stands for The IndUS Entrepreneurs, a global, not-for-profit ... More

    NATURAL CALAMITIES


    Central drought assessment team arrives in Kerala
    A SEVEN-MEMBER official team from the Centre has arrived with a mandate to assess the drought situation resulting from the failure of this year's monsoon in the State. The team, headed by Mr S.K. Ojha, Joint Secretary in the Department of ... More

    BOOKS


    India's Fiscal Matters
    By Parthasarathi Shome
    Publishers: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
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