Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY OUTSOURCING ECONOMY 
Powered by manufacturing, services sectors — First quarter GDP grows 5.7 pcTHE Indian economy has registered a healthy growth rate of 5.7 per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal, over and above the 5.3 per cent figure for the corresponding period of 2002-03. What is particularly encouraging about the ... More
Global economy searches for new growth engine
Net foreign liabilities decline $20 b
Farm sector set for rebound
Current account shows $1.2 b deficit in April-June period
External debt rises $5 b
Cover guarantees to get rating, Crisil tells States
Develop Surat as global centre: Jaswant HEALTH Healing touch for all Telemedicine offers immense scope to bring people under the health cover but more must be done to make it effective. More
Telemedicine link tested
Blood donation camp HOTELS Croatia invites investments in hotel sector KEEN to attract more tourists from India, Croatia has invited the Indian business community to participate in its ongoing disinvestment of hotels. "Croatia welcomes Indian investments, particularly from the hotel industry, the Croatian ... More INFRASTRUCTURE Kinfra workshop to identify export infrastructure in Kerala THE Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra), in association with Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) has organised a workshop on identification of infrastructure requirements for increasing exports from ... More PETROLEUM Nine new bidders for 22 oil, gas blocks BRITISH energy major BG, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Russia's Zarubezneftgaz, were among the nine first time bidders for the 24 oil and gas exploration blocks offered under the fourth ... More PHARMACEUTICALS Scope seen for clinical research outsourcing THE potential India offers for taking up outsourced clinical trial research by a string of global pharma companies was highlighted at the 37th annual general meeting of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI). Setting the ... More TAXATION Direct tax revenues rise 15 pc THE country's direct tax revenues rose by 15.07 per cent on the back of a sharp 28.5 per cent growth in corporate tax collections in the April to September period this year. According to a Finance Ministry statement, the total tax collections ... More TEXTILES Synthetic textile exports surpass target by Rs 450 cr "More pertinent is the fact that 92 per cent of the exports are non-quota products." Thus, the industry is poised to tackle the quota free regime in 2005, Mr Rakesh Mehra said. More WATER Indo-Bangla water talks collapse THE 35th meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint River Commission remained inconclusive with the Bangla delegation apparently not convinced about India's stand that the ambitious river inter-linking project would not harm the neighbouring country's ... More EDUCATION Ministry keen to set up fly ash training institute THE Union Ministry for Urban Development is willing to support the setting up of a national training institute for promoting the utilisation of fly ash and rice husk ash and create trained manpower. Announcing this, the Minister of State for ... More REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION IT, retail drive realty boom in Bangalore — Project quality, quick completion add to the demand DEVELOPERS today not only focus on aesthetics of the building but are also taking significant measures to improve efficiencies, size of floor plates, car parking requirements and reliability of infrastructure. From the days when artificially ... More INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS FICCI signs pact with London chamber THE Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has signed an agreement of cooperation to promote and strengthen the development of economic and trade relations and ... More
Case for SEZ at Coimbatore
KNITWEAR & HOSIERY Exports from Tirupur to US surge The premier knitwear town of Tirupur has pulled off a big punch in its exports to the coveted US market with a whopping 74 per cent rise in exports to America in 2002 calendar. And, the surge in Tirupur's share in total US exports from India ... More TEXTILE MACHINERY Revamp of textile engg industry sought THE domestic textile engineering industry continues to be dogged by falling share of its supplies of machinery to the user-industry compared to the total demand for textile machinery. Though the Textile Engineering Industry (TEI) recorded a 10 ... More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Insat 3E to free ISRO from leased transponders INSAT-3E, the latest Indian satellite in space since Sunday, is expected to make the national space agency self-sufficient in transponder capacity. Once it is put to work, it will free ISRO from the lease of 23 transponders on two foreign ... More
NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING `Samaj' launches edition in Vizag MANY parts of Orissa and coastal Andhra Pradesh, both of which were in the erstwhile Madras presidency, share a common ethos and cultural heritage and therefore both States should strive together to better the lot of people and promote their ... More LABOUR REFORMS Skill-development course for child labourers planned in AP THOUSANDS of children engaged in child labour doing menial jobs in hotels spread across the State will be freed and admitted to skill-development courses being taken up soon. The Andhra Pradesh Hotels Association and the Iranian Hotel Owners' ... More EVENTS Mumbai to host Maritime expo from Oct 8 REPRESENTATIVES of shipping companies from 25 countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Norway, USA, UK, Sweden and Denmark, will gather at Mumbai to attend the third India International Maritime Expo (INMEX) from October 8 to ... More
Prop World expo from tomorrow
INCOME TAX 
Last-hour rush!With September 30 being the last day to file the income-tax returns, people queue up at Mayur Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday. |