CARS
Car sales up 26 pc in April-Dec
With a growth of upwards of 26 per cent in the first nine months of the fiscal, domestic passenger car sales are likely to touch 7,20,000 units in sales this fiscal, Mr Jagdish Khattar, President, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers ... More

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS
PM opens super-speciality hospital in quake-hit Bhuj
THE Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on Wednesday dedicated to the nation, the super-specialty GK Hospital at Bhuj that was destroyed in the 2001 earthquake. The hospital that was rebuilt at a cost of Rs 130 crore, mainly from the ... More

COKE & METALURGICAL COKE
German cos favour Haldia for merchant coke plant
DR Carl-Otto Still and his associated companies in Germany have chosen Haldia as the most favoured location for their 2-million-tonne-per-annum capacity export oriented "merchant coke" plant in India. The project is to be set up in association ... More

DISINVESTMENT
Foreign participation in oil PSUs sell-off cleared — Decision taken at emergency meeting
THE Centre's urgency to complete the disinvestment process in oil sector PSUs in the current fiscal prompted the Finance Ministry to convene an emergency meeting of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) on Wednesday to clear proposals for ... More

LABOUR REFORMS
Child labour project in 50 more districts
THE Government has set a deadline to eliminate child labour in Delhi by the end of this year, and from the country by 2007. This was stated by the Union Labour Minister, Mr Sahib Singh Verma, at the launch of the National Child Labour Project ... More

EVENTS
For them `Another World is Possible'
THE irony could not be missed. While a poll-savvy BJP-led Government announced economic measures pandering to the corporate model of development, from around the world people opposed to big business began arriving here to search in a motley ... More

The Mercs, old and new
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Hyderabad to host stone expo from Jan 31
STONE India 2004, an international stone exhibition would be held at HITEX Exhibition Centre here from January 31 to February 2. It covers different natural stones such as granites, marbles, slate and sandstones, which are used in domestic as ... More

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

INCOME TAX
Interest from 8 pc taxable savings bond exempted from TDS
THE Government has exempted interest earned on the 8 per cent Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2003 from tax deduction at source (TDS). These bonds will, however, remain taxable, with assessees required to declare the interest income earned and pay tax ... More

Filing returns through employer — New norms prescribed for salaried employees
A SALARIED employee who has worked for more than one employer during the `previous year' cannot opt for the Income Tax department's new scheme that allows him to file his tax return through the employer. The scheme, which will come into effect ... More

NATURAL CALAMITIES