INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
OUTSOURCING
Storm over outsourcing may weaken soon: OECD
THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is optimistic that "controversies about the negative role of job offshoring should subside and take a less emotional turn as the spectre of a persistently jobless recovery ...
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ANTI-DUMPING
Ministry reviewing dumping duty on lead acid batteries
NEW DELHI: The Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has initiated a mid-term review of the definitive anti-dumping duty on lead acid batteries originating in or exported from Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. In its recent ...
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AUTOMOBILES
Finance Ministry sits on proposal for auto testing facilities
THE Ministry of Heavy Industries' plan to set up two automobile crash testing facilities is getting delayed with the Finance Ministry sitting on the proposal for more than two months now. The Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) under the ...
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ECONOMY
Planning still relevant in coalition era: Pant
THE role and remit of the Plan panel continue to be "relevant in the evolution of our polity, coalition government at the Centre with different political parties ruling the States where its coordinating capacity could be of immense strength," the ...
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Reforms, real winner of elections: India Inc
The paper states that on many crucial policy issues, whether it is fiscal, financial, trade-related, agricultural or industrial policy, the NDA and Congress say similar things.
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New Govt in AP should focus on SSIs, agri sector: Chambers
NOTWITHSTANDING the rout of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the elections to the State Assembly, trade and industry in the State expects continuity in economic policies. It, however, also feels that that a special focus on the SSIs and ...
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Common man strikes back
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ENVIRONMENT
PCB mulls common plant to treat Edayar effluents
IN order to reduce the pollution level in the Periyar river and to treat the wastewater flowing into it from various industrial units in the Edayar belt, the Kerala State Pollution Control Board has recommended the setting up of a common effluent ...
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`Clean Thevara-Peranur canal'
KOCHI: The GCDA-LIG Residents Welfare Association has demanded the authorities to take urgent steps to clean the Thevara-Perandur canal and to widen the canal by removing the encroachers. The association has made the demand following the ...
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HEALTH
C-DAC develops advanced digital hearing aid
THE Hardware Design Centre at the Centre for Development for Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram, has developed a low-cost digital hearing aid, with ``several advanced features'' for the hearing impaired. . Sources in C-DAC informed ...
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Alert on epidemics in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Department of Health Services has decided not to lower the guard against the spread of infectious diseases, especially water-borne infections, even as the cyclone-generated rains have abated in the coastal ...
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RADIO/TV
CAS report in 2 months: Baijal
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is likely to submit its recommendations on the implementation of the Conditional Access System (CAS) to the Government by July. Representatives from the cable industry and broadcasters were in ...
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EDUCATION
ASMIK entrance test
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Association of Self-Financing Management Institutes in Kerala (ASMIK) will hold a common entrance test for lapsed management seats in MBA institutes in Kerala on June 13. There are 17 self-financing management ...
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AUTOMOBILE COMPONENTS
Rising steel prices upset auto component makers
STUNG by the rising prices of alloy steel material and the shortfall in supply from domestic producers, the automotive and auto component industry has stepped up dialogue with steel manufacturers. "The situation is really grave as the alloy ...
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TEXTILE MACHINERY
Centre sets up development council for textile machinery
THE Central Government has constituted a new 25-member development council for the textile machinery industry. This council will have a term of two years. The annual turnover of the domestic textile machinery industry is estimated to be around ...
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IPR
IISc fine-tuning IP policy for its tech
IMAGINE a public research and academic body talking business with companies across the table, setting terms of ownership of its intellectual sweat, the royalty and profits it deserves or sharing revenues and costs of taking tech to market. Or can ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Warning from NORKA
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (NORKA) has warned job seekers against recruitments being made for the Caspian Petroleum Project Company in Azerbaijan. An official said here that a certain SN ...
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EVENTS
Training in soap making
KOCHI: The Kerala University Centre for Gandhian Studies and Gandhi Centre for Rural Development and Poornodaya Book Trust will jointly organise a 3-day training course in soap making from May 15. The training programme will be conducted ...
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Meet on cytopathology
HYDERABAD: Dr C. Ratnakar of the Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences has been invited to participate in an international conference on mastering the challenges of cytopathology, organised by the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in the ...
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Exporters bag orders for 8 mkg tea from Iraq
Even as there is growing optimism that India will get continued support from Iraq, there are concerns over whether exporters will fulfil their commitments given the shortfall in orthodox tea production in the country.
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TOURISM
New look, new role
`Ketuvallam', the traditional bulk carrier for moving cargo through the backwaters and canals, are rarely seen in the backwaters of Ernakulam these days. These boats have been remodelled and converted into houseboats to cater to tourists, ...
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