INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
EMPLOYMENT
Nursing a dream job
THIS paper quoted the US Department of Health and Human Services as saying recently that an estimated 2.8 million nurses will be needed in 2020. The US is in the midst of a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Plan to make Mumbai `world class' by 2013
IN an effort to transform Mumbai into a "world class city", the Maharashtra Government has set in motion a multi-pronged programme, which they hope to complete by the year 2013. Following a strategy laid out by a task force comprising of ...
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SSI
Focus on `business incubator' system in Kerala
THE Industries Department of the State Government has drawn up a blueprint of the "business incubator" system that it intends to put in place as a means to promote small and medium industries in the State. The proposed system is so designed as ...
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Strengthening SSI to arrest migration from villages
IN a unique effort that is aimed at arresting migration from rural areas, the Vizianagaram district administration and local chamber of commerce and industry have embarked upon a plan to develop the Bobbili Growth Centre (BGC). Set up on an ...
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EDUCATION
Intermediate results on phone in AP
GOLD & SILVER
Deccan Gold finds deposits in Haveri
DECCAN Gold Mines has struck another gold bearing deposit in Haveri zone, barely weeks after its success at the Dharwar Shimoga belt. The 470 x 27 metre zone at Ganajur near Haveri can potentially yield two tonnes of gold, the company MD, Mr ...
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PAPER, BOARD & NEWSPRINT
HPC to retain freight equalisation scheme
HINDUSTAN Paper Corporation (HPC) has decided to maintain its existing marketing policy to ensure uniform prices of all of varieties paper it produced, throughout the country. This indicates that the freight equalisation scheme now being followed ...
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INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
Double-digit agri growth `unrealistic', says CII
THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), while maintaining that Indian agriculture can lift its growth rate above the last 10 years' average of two per cent, has cautioned that it is unrealistic to expect a repeat of last year's double-digit ...
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WTO
Ensure progress in negotiations: WTO official
MEMBERS of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have been urged at the end of a recent informal meeting to deliver concrete results by July, 2004 to "ensure the continued progress in the negotiations" so that a completed framework for resumption of ...
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IPR
Academia taking to patenting, but slowly
HOW many patents do you think the country's prestigious universities such as the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; Banaras Hindu University , Varanasi; University of Hyderabad, Anna University, Chennai; and Jadavpur University, Kolkata would ...
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Study flays `undesirable' increase in such organisations — Kerala SHGs get registered as charitable societies
There has been no consensus on what should be the ideal nature of relationship between the Government and the Third Sector organisations.
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EVENTS
Kolkata engagements
EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Study to unearth handicrafts export potential in Bengal
THE Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), jointly with the Department of Cottage and Small Scale Industries, Government of West Bengal, and the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Government of India, has undertaken an in-depth ...
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DBK claims: Time limit clarified
TOURISM
Tourism course by AP Tourism
STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
ISO for Moti Mahal College
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