![]() Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY FOREIGN RELATIONS Iran ready to increase crude export volume THE Iranian President, Mr Syed Mohammad Khatami, said that his country was prepared to raise the volume of crude oil exports to India. Addressing the captains of industry at a luncheon here, he said that Iran welcomed all types of investments ... More ENVIRONMENT Trade in plant drugs abets deforestation: US expert RISING commercial demand for wild source plant drugs in some countries, including India, has abetted over-exploitation of medicinal plants, leading to the cumulative and unsustainable use of forest wealth and degradation and devaluation of ... More
Giving trees a fresh lease of life EXCISE AND CUSTOMS FOREIGN TRADE Sharjah free trade zone woos Indian companies BACKED by a modern infrastructure and one-stop centralised regulatory clearances and a tax-free regime, the Sharjah Airport Free Trade Zone (SAIF), which has about 48 per cent Indian companies out of 907 located there, has come to Hyderabad as a ... More
INFRASTRUCTURE Padgham offers expertise for infrastructure projects INFRASTRUCTURE projects in India need a tighter rein on costs and budget control, and Padgham & Partners Pty Ltd, Australia, is here to offer the required expertise, according to Mr Peter Cox, Director of the company. Announcing the ... More PHARMACEUTICALS Mashelkar to head drug panel IN the first step towards strengthening the drug regulatory infrastructure, the Union Health Minister, Mr Shatrughan Sinha, has announced the setting up of a broad-based expert committee under the chairmanship of Dr Mashelkar to suggest concrete ... More POWER TAXATION Bush tax plan a stimulus only for the super-rich Mr Bush measure will work out to billions of dollars in reduced capital gains taxes, a windfall that will go overwhelmingly to the rich and the super-rich. More
Bid to empower States to levy VAT opposed SSI Codissia drive to boost engg components exports Codissia had been pressing EEPC to include Coimbatore in the itinerary of foreign buyers since there were a large number of engineering companies here producing quality components. More TYRES Truck, bus tyre output slips in Nov `02 TRUCK and bus tyre production slipped in November 2002 to 8.12 lakh against a production level of 8.36 lakh recorded in October 2002. The production performance in this category in November 2002 is also much lower to the best-ever ... More WATER BREWERIES HC orders refund of excess fee THE Madras High Court has ordered refund of excess privilege fee to a retail liquor vendor of Karur District as the licence issued was for a lesser period than the normal one year. Mr Justice P.K. Misra, while disposing a writ petition from Mr ... More MEDICAL & SURGICAL EQUIPMENTS Vijaya Diagnostic offers digital x-ray services VIJAYA Diagnostic Centre (VDC), the Hyderabad-based diagnostic medicare services company with nine centres in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and one centre in Kolkata, has announced the launch of CR Digital X-ray system at its ... More BIO-TECH & GENETICS `Bioinformatics holds promise as a career' Since 25 per cent of the pharma companies' spend goes into manufacturing, the information could be mined to look for opportunity for innovation. More DISINVESTMENT
Centre to shed balance equity in VSNLEXACTLY a year after the successful disinvestment of international long-distance major Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) in favour of the Tata group, the Government has decided to shed its remaining stake of 26 per cent in the company. According ... More
Veto powers for Govt in HPCL post-sale WTO Plans afoot to update non-tariff barriers list "With the fall in the WTO-bound and applied duties, the NTBs have become a major challenge before developing nations. As per the economic division documentation of 2001, almost 44 per cent of total exports to the US faced some form or the other of N TBs." More SOCIAL WELFARE AP tops in child labour, says ILO ANDHRA Pradesh has the dubious distinction of having the highest incidence of child labour in India, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Despite the best efforts being put in by the State Government, the menace of child ... More RURAL DEVELOPMENT TN Govt to focus on rural economy The Government was looking to broad-base agriculture production and productivity through appropriate technological changes. More TOURISM Travel to Europe... shop for $200 free WOULD you like to travel to Europe and get $200 free as shopping money to purchase Swiss Maestrani chocolates, Swiss Gubelin watches, French perfumes or even the German Drubba wine glasses and cuckoo clocks? No, there's no bagful of tricks ... More ECONOMIC OFFENCES Plan for Sessions Courts to tackle white-collar crimes WHITE-collar offences, especially cheatings, breach of trust and counterfeit have registered a significant growth in the economic reforms-driven Andhra Pradesh during April December, 2002. While cheating cases rose to 4,203 against 2,962 ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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