INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
EMPLOYMENT
H-1B visa cap: Is there still hope for Indian techies?
Researchers point out that the job losses were the direct consequence of various measures, including the shipping of work to low-cost countries and the use of H-1B visas, which can be used to import computer programmers and other skilled workers.
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CLIMATE & WEATHER
Torrential rain wallops Kerala
Moderate to isolated heavy rains will continue in the next 48 hours, say weather experts.
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ANTI-DUMPING
Mid-term review of duty on HAS imports
THE Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has initiated a mid-term review of anti-dumping duty on imports of hydroxyl amine sulphate (HAS) from the EU, the US and Japan. BASF, Germany, one of the exporters of HAS from the EU, has filed ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
Bengal keen to bridge the Gulf with investors
WEST Bengal has made its first exploratory foray into the Gulf region in a bid to attract investors to participate in the State's key growth areas of downstream petrochemicals, agro-based industries and special economic zones. Mr Nirupam Sen, ...
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India, Korea ink pact on IT
INDIA and Korea on Monday agreed to promote co-operation in the field of Information Technology. In a joint statement signed by the IT and Communication ministers of the two countries, it was agreed to provide a fillip to the investment flows ...
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HEALTH
Ranbaxy asks doctors to prescribe Rofibax only for short-term use
FOLLOWING the withdrawal of painkiller and arthritis drug Vioxx (Rofecoxib) by Merck and Co due to side effects such as heart-attack and stroke, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has sent out an advisory to physicians urging them to prescribe its version, ...
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`Right to sight' by 2020
THE International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) has been entrusted an estimated outlay of $2 billion over the next 15 years to ensure that no one is denied the fundamental right to sight. The newly elected President of IAPB, a ...
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India to develop anti-diabetic drug
THE country is likely to be the pathfinder for developing an anti-diabetic drug from the sea. According to the Advisor of the National Institute of Ocean Technology , Department of Ocean Technology, Chennai, Mr B.R. Subramanian, current ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
IIMB students, staff, IT cos protest against bad roads in Bangalore
AFTER months of negotiating on pothole-filled Bannerghatta Road, the staff and students of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and the employees of several companies located on the road, took out a protest march on Monday. More than ...
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PETROLEUM
IOC aims to apply FMCG tactics in oil retailing
INDIAN Oil Corporation is consciously involved in a brand building exercise and wants to become an FMCG company, according to Dr N.G. Kannan, Director (Marketing). Speaking to newsmen in Coimbatore on Saturday, Dr Kannan, said IOC, which has a ...
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POWER
NLC gets Govt nod for Mine-II expansion
NEYVELI Lignite Corporation Ltd today announced that the Union Government has approved its expansion proposal for increasing the lignite production capacity of second mine from 10.5 million tonnes per annum to 15 million tonnes per annum and for ...
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STEEL
Intelligentsia for expansion of Vizag Steel Plant capacity
A CONVENTION of intellectuals, political leaders, and social activists from the coastal districts has urged the Union Government to take immediate steps to enhance the capacity of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in phases from the present 3.2 ...
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TAXATION
Direct tax collections for April-Sept up 33.16 per cent
AIDED by healthy mop-up on the income-tax front, direct tax collections of the Central Government increased by 33.16 per cent during April 1-September 28 to touch Rs 44,143 crore as against Rs 33,150 crore in the same period last year. The ...
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Karnataka: GMCI plea to review scope of special entry tax
THE Greater Mysore Chamber of Industry (GMCI) has urged the State Government to reconsider the decision to enlarge the scope of the special entry tax as it would affect the business severely. The new levy came into force from October 1 and it ...
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TEXTILES
Price crash on the horizon for textile exporters: Report
COME January 2005, and the biggest nightmare of textile manufacturers may well become reality. With the quota regime on global textile trade on its way out, prices are expected to crash like never before and analysts expect an immediate fall of ...
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WATER
De-fluorination plant installed in Warangal
TATA Projects and the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Fapcci) have installed a de-fluorination plant with a capacity of 24,000 litres in Gangadevipalli village in Warangal district. The plant can provide water ...
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RADIO/TV
Cricket rights to DD subject to SC ruling
THE Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) may have offered the telecast rights of the forthcoming series between Australia, South Africa and India to the national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, but this too would be subject to the Supreme ...
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EDUCATION
UK Minister coming to Hyderabad
THE British Minister for School Standards, Mr David Miliband, will be in Hyderabad on Wednesday, to participate in a series of education related activities, especially focussed on school initiatives. Mr Miliband will visit, what is said to be ...
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Course on global trade
Corpn Bank lecture
FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING
Bengal receives Rs 400-cr proposals in food processing
WEST Bengal has received proposals worth Rs 400 crore for investment in food processing for the current financial year, said the Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, at `Food Tech India 2004', an international exhibition organised by the ...
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READYMADE GARMENTS
Readymade exports show buoyant trend
WITH the deadline for the end of the quota regime in global trade in textiles and clothing drawing closer, the country's exports of readymade garments to quota-restricted countries displayed buoyant trends during the first five months of the ...
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BIO-TECH & GENETICS
ICAR focusing on genetic improvement of rice
THE Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is moving forward in functional genomics and has already formulated a Rs 32-crore project that would initially focus on the production of transgenic rice variety, which would be resistant to ...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Bet on `MEMS' after IT
THE micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) is likely to be the next technological forte of India after information technology, according to the Vice-Chancellor of Madurai-Kamaraj University (MKU), Dr P.K. Ponnuswamy. Presiding over a ...
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Defence, industry joint venture firms in offing
One of the first such initiatives under this `GoCo' model has been floated with the target of indigenously developing Servo Valves.
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NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING
Two Oman dailies to use BodhTree ePaper solution
BODHTREE Consulting, an IT consulting and product development company, today signed a licence agreement to provide its latest ePaper publishing solution to Times of Oman and Al Shabiba, two leading newspapers in Oman, to enable the ...
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
HPCL's Rasoi Ghar project — Weaning rural areas away from firewood
IT'S called killing two birds with the same stone — Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) is doing precisely that as it executes its LPG Rasoi Ghar (community kitchen) project across the rural heartland. First and foremost, the idea ...
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LABOUR REFORMS
PM recognises concerns over `hire and fire' policy
THE Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Monday recognised the workers' concern over the `hire and fire' policy pursued by the industry globally. He said that while one has to recognise the need for flexibility in labour laws, endorsement of the ...
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TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS
Nabard staff strike today
EVENTS
In Hyderabad today
NATURAL CALAMITIES
Agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh
The extensive nature of the agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh is now widely known. But it is not more generally recognised that what has already happened in that State is actually replicating itself to varying degrees across rural India. In this edit ion of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh investigate some of the problems affecting Andhra Pradesh agriculture, and the wider background in which they have occurred.
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TOURISM
KTM proves a tourism booster, say organisers
THE just concluded Kerala Travel Mart 2004, the prestigious event to showcase the State outside the world, will help boost the tourist inflow into the State on account of the large number of participation of buyers from various parts of the ...
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KTDC draws up infrastructure expansion plan
THE Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) has drawn up a 10-year plan for upgrading and expanding infrastructure and setting up properties in new destinations, Mr M.N. Gunavardhanan, Managing Director of KTDC, has said. To begin with, ...
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`Holiday at Kerala' pacts
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