The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 09, 2004

EMPLOYMENT
Campus recruitment at engg colleges on the upswing
WITH all IT companies looking at recruiting in thousands, the graduating batch of 2005 in almost all engineering colleges in the city show record placement figures this year. Placement officers at engineering colleges are beaming at the numbers ... More

PENSION PLANS
Govt favours 100 pc FDI in pension sector
THE Government favours allowing 100 per cent foreign direct investment in the pension sector. ``We will pitch for 100 per cent FDI,'' the Joint Secretary (Capital Markets and Pension), Mr U.K. Sinha, said on the sidelines of a seminar on ... More

ANTI-DUMPING
Dumping duty on lead acid batteries to be discontinued
THE Designated Authority in the Anti-Dumping and Allied Duties wing of the Department of Commerce has recommended discontinuation of the anti-dumping duty it recommended and imposed in December 2001 on all imports of lead acid batteries from ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS
NIN scientists bag four nutrition awards
THE scientists of the National Institute of Nutrition here have bagged four awards at the 36th Annual Meetings of the Nutrition Society of India (NSI) held at Mysore last week. The Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), the ... More

ECONOMY
Excise sops lure pharma, FMCG firms to the hills
THE hills seem to be alive with business booming. Companies spanning pharmaceuticals, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and some other sectors have been lured by the hills and have begun to establish manufacturing facilities in far-flung Jammu ... More

ELECTRONICS
IT Parliamentary panel calls for proposals from CMET
THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has called upon the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET) based here to submit a detailed proposal for upgradation and to meet its expansion plans. The ... More

ENGINEERING
Engg industries want norms on steel scrap import changed
THE engineering industries in Coimbatore region have expressed the fear that the tightening of the norms of import of metal scraps, in the wake of the scare created over the recovery of armaments and shells from imported scrap from certain ... More

FERTILISERS
Urea production exceeds target
UREA production during the first half of the current financial year (2004-05) stood at 100.08 lakh tonnes against the targeted 96.57 lakh tonnes, according to an official release. The estimated production of urea for September stood at 16.48 ... More

PETROLEUM
Petronet India to be sold by March
PETRONET India Ltd (PIL), the consortium of oil companies and financial institutions set up for laying product pipelines, will be sold by March 2005. The company's board of directors will meet later this month to discuss the sale process with ... More

PHARMACEUTICALS
Out-licensing scorecard of drug cos causing concern
IS the glass half-empty or half-full seems to be the dilemma confronting analysts tracking the domestic drug industry, given recent the announcement from Germany's Schwarz Pharma that it had stopped further clinical development of a prostate ... More

Pharma congress in Kolkata from Dec 3
THE Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC), a mega event of the Indian pharma sector, returns to Kolkata after a gap of 15 years. The three-day 56th congress, to be flagged off by the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on ... More

RADIO/TV
Broadcasters told not to accept ads from defaulters — Samsung, Motorola, Reckitt in dock
"Many advertisers are not paying their agencies on time and if this trend continued, all of them would face similar action." More

Animal Planet to launch India Revealed
ANIMAL Planet too is going Indian. It is launching a special series on wildlife - India Revealed - to be aired in India as well as across the world. According to Mr Pankaj Saxena, Vice President - Programming, Discovery Networks India, ... More

EDUCATION
Term books to provide succour to school kids in Kerala
ORIENT Longman has introduced its `Sangam National' series of textbooks in the State. The 15 books in the series are intended for primary school children studying in classes one to five. Each textbook includes topics from four subjects — ... More

GEMS & JEWELLERY

Ganjam jewellery fair in Mangalore

BIO-TECH & GENETICS
Central aid sought for Kalamassery biotech park
THE State Government has sought Central aid for setting up a biotechnology park in the State. The park is proposed to be established at Kalamassery, near Kochi, on 50 acres of land as a joint venture with a private sector partner. The Kerala ... More

PAINTS

Kids emulsion from Agsar

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
PUBLIC POLICY NOTE
Investment Commission — Gameplan to attract foreign funds
To help realise the Tenth Plan growth target of 8 per cent and to make the country attractive for investors, there is the need to constitute the Investment Commission. The panel will recommend to the government pro-active policies that would create t he right environment to attract FDI. Also, it would strive to reduce the gap between proposals and projects under implementation and quicken the pace of investments, says Bhanoji Rao. More

EVENTS
CII quality meet to focus on service, food safety
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)'s 12th Quality Summit scheduled for later this month has added service and food safety sectors to its three-theme session related to `sustainable growth through quality and competitiveness.' The annual ... More

National meet on trends in building services engg
THE Architectural Engineering Division of The Institution of Engineers (India), West Bengal State Centre, is hosting an all-India seminar on `Global trends in building services engineering,' said to be the first such in the country, on November ... More

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES
Arogya fair to be held in January
`AROGYA- Chennai 2005', a trade fair that aims to promote Indian systems of medicine, will be held here from January 7-9. The three-day fair would be organised by the Indian Trade Promote Organisation (ITPO) and the Ministry of Health & ... More