The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, April 25, 2004

PHARMACEUTICALS
Drug companies focusing on data protection
KEEPING secrets was never more valued in the pharmaceutical industry. A combination of impending changes in Indian patent laws and the growing importance of intellectual property have pushed some companies to get employees to sign confidentiality ... More

TAXATION
Govt mulls hiking turnover levy on Delhi Centaur
THE Government is examining a proposal to increase the turnover levy on the Air India (AI) subsidiary, Hotel Centaur in Delhi, from the existing two per cent to six per cent. Official sources, while confirming that such a proposal was being ... More

COAL
South Eastern Coalfields mulls price increase
SOUTH Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), a profit-making subsidiary of Coal India Ltd (CIL), is contemplating revising coal prices even as it posted a record profit before tax and dividend of Rs 1,150 crore on a total production of 71 million tonnes ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Corporate India milking its real estate
`GET the best out of what you already have' appears to be the new corporate mantra. If nothing, at least the way some of the companies have gone about utilising their existing real estate assets, suggest that. In the last one-year, more than 20 ... More

LEATHER
Italian shoe component cos ready to shift base to India
FIVE Italian shoe component companies are ready to shift manufacturing operations to India because buyers from Europe and the US have begun to source shoes from Asian countries such as India and China. As the demand for shoe components comes ... More

INDUSTRIAL POLICY
CITU demands scrapping of packaging order
THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has demanded immediate scrapping of the order of the Union Ministry of Textiles, issued on April 16, which permitted 40 per cent usage of synthetic bags for packing food grains. The recent order diluted ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Silver imports to resume on price advantage
AFTER a break of about four months, silver imports into the country are slated to resume, say reliable sources in the bullion trade. This follows a small price advantage to importers as the fall in domestic prices has not been as sharp as the ... More