Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, April 28, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, April 28, 2003 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY AUTOMOBILES Exports bring cheer to auto industry — Maruti Udyog spearheads growth THOUGH the automotive industry may have only seen modest growth in sales in the domestic market last fiscal, there was good news as far as export markets were concerned. The categories that saw maximum jump in exports in 2002-03 included the ... More ECONOMY CII forecasts 6-6.4 pc growth in GDP PREDICTION, it seems, is not the forte of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Whether it is the US attack on Iraq, or the ongoing spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus in South-East Asia, the chamber has been taking ... More ENVIRONMENT Guidelines soon for funding SMEs opting for clean tech — Bid to change banks' conventional mindset KCPC plans to get into discussions with commercial banks on how they can start considering loans for environment-friendly technologies from next year. More
HEALTH No confirmed SARS case in Kerala, says Minister THERE have been no confirmed Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) cases in Kerala, though three people have so far been hospitalised following suspicions that they had contracted the disease. In fact, one of them was discharged from ... More
Flight of germs across borders PSU WBIDC earns Rs 3-cr net through lending The decrease in operating expenses, particularly on account of finance charges, was mainly because of the retirement of high cost debt amounting to Rs 19.36 crore. More PETROCHEMICALS 
Task force favours slashing import duty on naphthaTHE high-level Task Force on Petrochemicals, headed by the former Chairman of the Disinvestment Commission, Mr G.V. Ramakrishna, has recommended a major cut in the import duty on naphtha as well as rationalisation of customs and excise duties for ... More POWER VTPS to finalise EPC contract next year THE Andhra Pradesh Generation Corporation (APGenco) expects to finalise the EPC contractor for the Vijayawada Thermal Power Station's (VTPS) new 660-MW unit based on super critical boiler technology (SCBT) by March 2004. It expects to commence ... More
West Bengal power regulator hikes tariffs
TAXATION Throwing the baby with bathVATer THERE was all that hype that VAT would come zipping in on April 1 and so the trade protested that it should not come. On the appointed day, as an anticlimax, nobody knew whether it was on or not. As the day wore off, we came to learn that it ... More
`Early VAT launch will be beneficial' TEXTILES Synthetic, rayon textile exports register 31 pc growth EXPORTS of synthetic and rayon textile items have been registering substantial growth since the start of the financial year 2002-03, growing 31 per cent in April-January 2002-03. According to Mr Rakesh Mehra, Chairman, Synthetic & Rayon ... More WATER RADIO/TV Five cos plan to enter DTH Is there space for so many players, considering the fact that, in developed countries, there are only two or at the most three players? More EDUCATION BIO-TECH & GENETICS Govt nod sought for Bt cotton test trials AT least half-a-dozen companies are said to be preparing the ground for introduction of the Bt cotton for test trials this season. These companies/firms, it is reliably learnt, are seeking the Ministry's nod for environmental clearance, and the ... More MINING & QUARRYING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT Opinion split on FDI hike in aviation IS the Union Cabinet's move to defer a decision on hiking the ceiling on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the domestic aviation sector a progressive or a retrograde step. Will this eventually lead to the Indian consumer being denied access to ... More
IPR Intellectual property system to be modernised THE Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, has outlined new initiatives for creating intellectual property (IP) awareness and promotion of IP culture with the Government looking at a comprehensive strategy to optimise the benefits ... More RURAL DEVELOPMENT CAG finds holes in rural job schemes THE Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) integrating all components of the erstwhile rural employment and poverty eradication programme failed to make the desired impact and it has not emerged an improvement over the earlier Integrated Rural ... More ENTERTAINMENT & LEISURE TOURISM Kerala tourism diary is chock-a-block AS part of the recently announced initiative to promote the State's Malabar region as a tourist destination, Kerala Tourism will organise the `Malabar Travel Mart' in Kozhikode later this year. Mr Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Director, Department of ... More
SICK UNITS 187 cos found not complying with CLB orders MARDIA Chemicals Ltd, Thapar Ispat, Usha Martin Industries Ltd, Synthetics & Chemicals Ltd, and Nuchem Ltd are some of the names out of 187 companies that have not complied with the Company Law Board (CLB) orders. Agreeing that various orders ... More ECONOMIC OFFENCES Fakes are not a `luxury' any more for them... YOU have probably heard of KitKet chocolate, Vikas cough drops, Dispy cola and Head & Shower shampoo. Now how about Louis Viton bags and Blueberry garments? The menace of counterfeit products - the Rs 80,000-crore FMCG industry's biggest ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Top Stories In Focus Run-up to Budget Kelkar Report Bottled water: How safe is it? Telecom Competition Oil PSUs: Disinvestment dilemma Housing Fin. rate war: Bonanza for consumers! NPAs in Banking Truckers' Strike In Depth Simple Economics Consumer Notes Tax Talk The Brahmananda collections NRIs & Investment Avenues Corporate Governance Gold: Still the winner? Cars: Always a beauty Railway Budget Budget 2003-04 Books and Reviews Looking back Apr. 20-Apr. 26 Entertainment policy on the anvil CII finds mobiles, housing finance leading the charge Rs 90,178-cr tax arrears uncollected as on March '02 Investment proposals in Karnataka worth Rs 3,620.33 cr approved — TVS Motor, Infosys, Intel figure in list USFDA to bring in stringent measures to regulate imports `Indian students flocking to US varsities despite recession, 9/11' The phenomenon of `energised inflation' Chennai, Bangalore real estate values firm up |
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