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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CLIMATE & WEATHER Kerala climate turning fickle LATE than normal onsets, decreasing precipitation and other aberrations in monsoon behaviour have combined to lend an air of unpredictability to evolving weather pattern over Kerala, which has witnessed drought-like contingencies on more than one ... More ECONOMY NCAER business confidence index rises in July REFLECTING buoyant business sentiments among corporate and industrial houses, the business confidence index (BCI), being tracked by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), has surged 14 percentage points in the latest round ... More
ENVIRONMENT Sahara submits project report on Sundarbans THE Sahara group has submitted a detailed project report (DPR) for an integrated Rs 540 crore eco-tourism project in the Sundarbans in West Bengal. The project will include barge-mounted floatels, pilgrimage tourism facilities at Gangasagar, ... More PLASTICS Plastics may soon be biodegradable? The good news, however, is still just a silver lining. For, the studies are not yet complete and the generality of the method to other commonly used plastic, namely, polyethylene, has not been explored. More POWER REC offers to refinance State utilities Presently, REC base lending rates start from 8 per cent. Despite the reduced rates, the sources said, REC would still stand to benefit in the form of an enlarged asset base. More TAXATION `Address service tax issues to avoid confusion' PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS has called upon industry to address the complex issues raised by the service tax, touted as the tax of the future, while asking the Government to better define the rules and expressions in order to save industry from ... More
Kerala hopeful of Rs 6,400-cr mop-up in sales tax
`New service tax rules have significant implications' TECHNOLOGY `Industry must convert Defence tech into wealth generators' INDIAN industry should latch on to technologies developed at the string of Defence laboratories and space department centres and convert them into wealth generators, both for the industry and the nation, according to Dr V.K. Aatre, Scientific ... More SSI Small industries' trust to give guarantee cover to SSI loans THE Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Small Industries, set up by the Government of India and SIDBI, has decided to give guarantee cover to SSI loans falling under the Small Scale Service & Business (Industry Related) category. This would include ... More WATER `Law to protect lakes, water courses must' THE Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority needs to frame appropriate legislative measures to protect tanks and prevent encroachments in reservoirs and watercourses, Mr P.D. Dinakaran, Judge, Madras High Court, has said. Over the past few ... More EDUCATION ICFAI teachers' programme ICFAI Institute of Management Teachers (IIMT), which offers a three-year management teachers' programme leading to Ph D degree, organised its second induction ceremony here on Friday. Addressing the new batch of students at IIMT, its Principal, ... More
BEVERAGES Cola majors take matter to courts STUNG by the pesticide row that has led to tremendous anti-cola sentiments and soft drink sales dipping across the country, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo on Friday moved courts in respective developments. Senior PepsiCo officials maintained that the ... More
Cola cos must come clean, says CSE
Cola controversy resonates in the US embassy SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ISRO planning to develop reusable spacecraft THE Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has firmed up a design and development programme to launch a reusable spacecraft by 2005, which will propel it into the select group of countries such as the US, Russia and China to possess the ... More PACKAGING Mandatory jute packaging — Ministry yet to pin down errant cement, fert cos THE Union Ministry of Textiles is yet to pin down the errant cement and fertiliser companies, which flouted the mandatory jute packaging orders from 1995 to 1997 despite issuing notices almost a year ago. According to Mr S.R. Majumdar, Jute ... More DISINVESTMENT FIIs, MFs evince interest in AP stake divestment Implementation Secretariat has completed all the formalities of evaluation and dematerialisation of the shares. More FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT 
German team apprised of investment areasTHE Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with Indo- German Chamber of Commerce and Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporaton (Kinfra) organised a one-day workshop on "Doing Business with Germany" here on Friday. In ... More WTO Govt to incorporate unions' views for WTO talks AS part of the process of wide-ranging consultations with political parties and trade unions in the run-up to the fifth Ministerial meeting of the WTO in Cancun next month, the Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, assured the ... More RURAL DEVELOPMENT ITC's `Sunera Kal' programme to target 10 m farmers "SUNERA KAL", the golden tomorrow, is what ITC Ltd envisages to provide to the targeted 10 million farmers in one lakh villages spread over 15 States in the country. As a part of its endeavour towards this goal, the tobacco major has launched ... More
TN to extend sops to toy, fishery sectors EVENTS A recipe to go global This is not the `50s and `60s and joint ventures can only stifle a company aspiring to go global - and not take it where it wants to grow, says Mr Krishna. More
INCOME TAX 
Tax refunds in one month via e-Return modeTHE Income-Tax Department would make the refund payments to assessees within one month, if the returns are filed through the e-Return mode, the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Chennai Circle, Dr K. Gopalan, said here today. e-Return is an ... More
Ministry rapped for delay in issuing PAN EXPORTS & IMPORTS Mills mull raw sugar exports to beat surplus — ISMA forms panels to study all aspects However, there are a few hitches in the way of initiating raw sugar exports. More
Tea exports to all major nations dip TOURISM States keen on tapping AP tourism scope EYEING Andhra Pradesh as a potential source of tourists, a large number of State Governments, and travel operators from all over the country have sent in teams to the three-day Travel and Tourism Fair, which began here today. Besides, ... More STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS CFTRI offers to test cola samples THE services of the analytical laboratory of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) are available for resolving the controversy over pesticide residue allegedly found in branded colas, softdrinks and bottled water, Dr V. ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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