The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 16, 2004

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY
Ethanol-petrol blending plan grinds to halt
THE ethanol-petrol blending programme has run aground with no meeting point on the prices for ethanol to be offered by oil companies to sugar mills. "For the time being, the programme has been stalled due to the rigid attitude adopted by oil ... More

ECONOMY
Testing times ahead for Bush in second term
THE Republicans may talk about the "mandate" of the recent elections and the President Mr George W. Bush may be keen to spend all that "capital" he got out of the November 2 event, but the fact of the matter is that it ... More

ENVIRONMENT
ITC Centre bags Platinum Green Building rating from US agency
ITC Ltd has added a new feather to its EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) policy cap. This is in active pursuit of the `triple bottomline' concept - economic, ecological and social, which is the new benchmark for all high aspiring corporates ... More

`Reopen PCB site office'
KOCHI: The Local Area Environment Committee (LAEC) has asked the Pollution Control Board (PCB) to immediately reopen its site office in the Eloor-Edayar region. LAEC, which was constituted by the board on October 15, had found that PCB ... More

HEALTH
Bank for cord blood stem cells
CHENNAI: Asia Cryo-Cell Pvt Ltd, in technical collaboration with Cryo-Cell International, US, has invested Rs 12 crore to set up a bank for umbilical cord blood stem cells. According to a press release, Asia Cryo-Cell, through its ... More

HOTELS
Hospitality industry upbeat in Bangalore
COME February, luxury hotels in Bangalore are expected to be fully booked, resulting in delegates commuting from Chennai for the biennial Aero India show. The bookings have already reached the saturation point. Though the hospitality ... More

Reopening clean-up
Workers cleaning the glass panels of a star hotel (earlier Hotel Sreelekha Intercontinental ) in Chennai which is to be reopened under a new management.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Nabard aid for Perambalur
MADURAI: A sum of Rs 69.90 crore will be spent on the improvement of infrastructure facilities in rural areas in Perambalur district. To be executed under the `Rural Infrastructure Development Scheme' of the National Bank for Agriculture ... More

PETROLEUM
Petrol price cut; diesel unchanged
PUBLIC sector oil companies have reduced the price of petrol by up to Rs 1.26 per litre while maintaining diesel prices at the existing level. The new prices will be effective from midnight tonight. The decrease in price comes close on the ... More

Ship owners seek clear LNG transport norms
Foreign owners have told Petronet that it would be difficult to register the tankers under the Indian flag even after putting in 74 per cent equity in a joint venture formed specifically for the project. More

Aiyar for Asian oil consortium
THE Petroleum Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, on Monday stressed on the need to mobilise opinion in favour of an Asian consortium among leading producing and buying countries of the region, in order to create a forum for effective leverage to ... More

PHARMACEUTICALS
Pharma industry hikes adspends on OTC products
THIS is one category that has not been caught sneezing. Even as fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) and consumer durables are showing a dip in advertising spends, the pharmaceutical sector is quietly upping its advertising spends. Cough syrups, ... More

Pharmexcil, Philippines body tie up
MUMBAI: Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council (Pharmexcil) has signed its first memorandum of understanding with Philippines International Trading Corporation (PITC), a trading and marketing arm of the Philippine Government. The ... More

POWER
Karnataka likely to contain power subsidy outflows
FOR the first time this decade, the Karnataka Government is expected to contain subsidy outflows to the power sector within the targets prescribed in the medium-term fiscal plan. Power sector subsidies are one of the major reasons for high ... More

Bellary generator concretised
BANGALORE: The Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) achieved a milestone in the construction of the 500-megawatt Bellary thermal station by concreting the turbine generator shaft in 36 hours. A KPCL release said that the concreting ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Bengal invites bids for land reclamation
Dredging circles said that the Bengal housing infrastructure corporation has now become much more flexible in its approach. More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
ICC to hold workshop on Haldia project
THE Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here is organising a workshop, as part of a European Commission-funded project to set up a management information system called Environmental Risk Reporting and Information System (ERRIS) at Haldia and ... More

EVENTS
Lecture on globalisation
MANGALORE: The Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management at Nitte in Udupi district will conduct a special lecture on `Developmental issues in a globalised era' on Tuesday. A press release by the Director of the institute, Dr M.S. ... More

Protest against Seer's arrest
The usual crowd of people and vehicles was missing from the North Overbridge in Ernakulam on Monday due to the one-day hartal called by Hindu organisations to protest the arrest of Kanchi Sankaracharya. ... More

In Hyderabad today

Philatelic exhibition in Hyderabad

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Non-receipt of benefits — Sanitary castings exporters appeal to Commerce Ministry
EXPORTERS of sanitary castings have made fresh representations to the Commerce Ministry on the issue of non-receipt of benefits following the conversion of free shipping bills into DEPB (Duty Entitlement Passbook) bills, particularly for ... More

CO-OPERATIVES
TN coop bags excellence award
TWO primary co-operative societies in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry are among the 34 such societies selected countrywide for the biennial award of National Cooperative Development Corporation's (NCDC) co-operative excellence. According to a press ... More

NATURAL CALAMITIES
TN seeks Rs 412 cr for flood relief
THE Tamil Nadu Government has asked the Centre for a total assistance of Rs 411.73 crore under the National Calamity Contingency Fund for relief operations in the flood-hit districts. The Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, in a letter to the ... More