INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
ECONOMY
Bush starts focusing on social security system
WITH the baby boom generation looking at retirement, the US President, Mr George W. Bush, pushed his domestic agenda for the second term by saying that the nation must start addressing the impending bankruptcy of the social security system. At ...
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Meet on Millennium Development Goals begins in Thiruvananthapuram
THE Chiba, Japan-based United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP) is organising a three-day inception seminar on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) here from Monday. The Union Ministry of Statistics and ...
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Chautala Govt announces wide-ranging relief
WITH the Vidhan Sabha elections just round the corner, the Om Prakash Chautala regime in Haryana announced several sops today to woo almost all major sections of society. The Cabinet, presided over by Mr Chautala, approved several schemes and ...
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HEALTH
Kerala plans `Health Vision 2025' document
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government proposes to come out with a Vision 2025 document that deals with the correctives required for being able to meet challenges the health sector may throw up over the next 20 years. The Health ...
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PETROCHEMICALS
Kerala: Nobel laureate to open meet on polymers
THE Year 2000 Chemistry Nobel laureate, Prof Alan G. MacDiarmid, will inaugurate Macro 2004, an international conference on polymers for advanced technologies that gets under way here from Tuesday. Announcing this, Dr K.N. Ninan, Chairman, and ...
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PHARMACEUTICALS
Panel to study options to keep life-saving drugs affordable
THE pharmaceutical industry in the country can take heart. If the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers is clamping up trade margins of both generic and branded drugs, it is also looking at other options to ensure the availability of life-saving ...
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POWER
APGenco to set up two gas-based power projects
ANDHRA Pradesh Generation Corporation (APGenco) proposes to set up two gas-based power projects of 1400 MW each at Vemagiri and Shankarapalli in the State. Reliance Industries has come forward to supply 14 MCMD (million cubic metres of gas a ...
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TAXATION
Service tax collection target may be hiked
THE more than expected buoyancy on the industrial growth front in the recent months may prompt the Finance Ministry to raise the bar on service tax collections for the current fiscal. The revenue department is already contemplating increase in ...
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`VAT will help improve revenue'
MANGALORE: Tax reform in India is long overdue, according to the former Chairman and Managing Director of Syndicate Bank, Dr N.K. Thingalaya. Inaugurating the executive development programme on value-added tax (VAT), organised by the ...
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EDUCATION
CII organising iTalent meet for students
IN a move to focus the attention of the industry on the regional and suburban colleges in the southern region, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising iTalent 2004. Mr P.K. Mohapatra, Chairman, Education Sub-Committee, CII ...
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Coimbatore college to enter pact with TUV Rheinland
THE School of Management of Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, is signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TUV Rheinland (India) Pvt Ltd, as part of its institute-industry interface. TUV will provide training ...
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AUTOMOBILE COMPONENTS
`Auto components sector needs structural changes to face competition'
WHILE the auto component sector has the potential to become a global outsourcing hub and repeat the success story of the IT industry, a lot of structural changes are needed for that to happen, according to Mr S. Viji, Joint Managing Director, ...
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FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING
German food cos see potential for joint ventures
GERMAN food companies are looking towards starting joint ventures with Indian processed food industries for export and import of food products and beverages, according to Dr Georg-Roland Mull, Export Marketing Adviser of Central Marketing ...
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GEMS & JEWELLERY
`Demand growing for GIA courses'
THE Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has chalked out a major plan for its educational courses to be offered at Mumbai during the year 2005. "Considering the tremendous response we have received since we opened the centre in Mumbai in July ...
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INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
CII for scrapping import duty, sales tax on aviation gasoline
THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has suggested that the import duty and sales tax on aviation gasoline (AVGAS) be removed to provide the much-needed boost to the Indian aviation industry. According to CII, the import duty and sales ...
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Flat tape makers seek withdrawal of reservation for jute sector
THE All India Flat Tape Manufacturers Association (AIFTMA), an outfit of polypropylene (PP) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) woven sacks manufacturers, decried the recent Government order reserving 90 per cent of food grains and 100 per cent ...
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CINEMA
Beyond the festival
AS the Ninth International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) got under way in Thiruvananthapuram, there was a huge scramble among film lovers to grab a bite from the tantalising menu of 171 films from 50 countries on offer. Enthusiasm is ruling ...
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SOCIAL WELFARE
`Modern management tool vital for public welfare '
THE Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, on Saturday presented a strong case for devising a mechanism whereby modern management techniques can be used to train people in public administration and those who serve public utilities with a view to ...
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EVENTS
VisaPro workshop tomorrow
Regional forum
Engagements
EXPORTS & IMPORTS
`No restoration of export incentives for sugar'
THE Union Government has ruled out the restoration of export incentives for sugar, including re-imbursement of expenditure by mills on internal transport and neutralisation of ocean freight disadvantage. According to the reply given by the ...
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TOURISM
Home stays are a Coorg speciality
DESPITE its dominance in the hospitality sector, Kerala has much to learn from the Coorg tourism experience, says Mr Viji John, Managing Director of Misty Woods resorts in Coorg. The tourism experience of Coorg is quite different from that of ...
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Drive to clean up tourist spots in Kerala
KERALA Tourism has announced the commencement of a destination cleaning campaign at important tourist destinations across the State. Addressing a press conference in the city, Mr K.C. Venugopal, State Minister for Tourism, said the `Clean ...
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Kerala tourism handbook
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: `Tourism India - Kerala Tourism Handbook', a directory brought out by the Tourism India Magazine in association with the Department of Tourism, Kerala, has been formally released. The Union Minister of State for ...
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