EDUCATION
IMT ties up with University of Burdwan
KOLKATA: THE Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad (IMT) has entered into a tie-up with the University of Burdwan for exchange of faculty and awarding of degrees in management disciplines by the latter. According to the tie-up, ... More

CARS
Foreign car majors set to wipe off losses soon
Over the last few years, some of these companies have also been setting off part of their accumulated losses against profits thereby shrinking the cumulative loss. More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Plea to exclude real estate sector from service tax net
THE Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI) has asked the Government to keep the real estate sector out of the purview of the service tax. "The association has reiterated that real estate development is not a ... More

GOLD & SILVER
INDIA GOLD CONVENTION 2004 — A BUSINESS LINE FEATURE
A golden future
Futures trading in gold has taken off very well, thanks to the initiative of the three-nation-wide multi-commodity exchanges. G. Chandrashekhar and Latha Venkatraman survey the scene. More

Gold facts
The US owns the most gold, followed by Germany and the International Monetary Fund. India emerges as the largest repository of gold within the national boundaries, if jewellery is included. More

A safer haven
India's affinity for gold clearly plays out the theory put forward by WGC, that gold is a `safe haven' investment, say Latha Venkatraman and Dhimant Bhatt. More

Spot gold may consolidate
GOLD prices moved higher in reaction to the dollar's slide in the wake of disappointing trade balance data last Friday. The trade gap widened by a surprising 19.1 per cent to a record $55.8 billion, marking the largest one-month percentage ... More

SMALL SAVINGS
EPFO Web site yet to record change of Govt!
ALMOST three months into the job as Union Labour Minister and having chaired four contentious meetings of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation as its Chairman, Mr Sis Ram Ola is yet to find a place in ... More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS
EPF rate cut: Left unions protest today
THE Left and other independent trade unions plan to stage a nationwide protest on Friday while gearing up for an industrial strike to protest against the lowering of interest rate on employees' provident fund (EPF). Trade unions such as CITU, ... More

EVENTS
3-day convention on jewellery evolution
THE Crafts Council of India (CCI) is organising a three-day international jewellery convention called "Grass to Gold" in association with the Office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Ministry of Textiles. Ms Usha Krishna, ... More

TOURISM
More countries wooing Bollywood to lure tourists
WHAT is the best way to attract tourists from India to their countries? Get the Hindi film industry to use spots there as locations in their films and there can be no better way of promoting tourism. Recently, Singapore - not that it has ... More

S. Africa eyeing India with travel deals
SOUTH Africa, which received about 41,000 tourists from India in 2003, up from 34,000 in the previous year, is looking to further exploit the awareness and interest generated by the cricket World Cup that it hosted in 2003. The South African ... More

7 countries taking part in tourism fair
OVER 200 participants from 22 States and seven countries are participating in the 37th Travel & Tourism Fair (TTF) which was inaugurated here on Thursday by the West Bengal Tourism Minister, Mr Dinesh Dakua. Representatives of the tourism ... More