The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 10, 2005

UTI Bank `Remittance Card'
MUMBAI: UTI Bank has launched `Remittance Card' in association with Remit2India, a Web site offering money-transfer services. The card is designed to provide convenience and safety to Indians who receive remittances from their family ... More

HEALTH

Keep `em out
Here's an anti-virus software based on the quarantine intervention used to contain SARS. This is how it works... More

PETROLEUM

Bunkering to fuel growth for oil firms
For bunkering activities to pick up, the Government should reduce the tax and duty burden on bunkers. More

TEXTILES

`Textile industry must grab opportunities to tap global market'
WITH the elimination of the multi-fibre agreement a few days ago, there is enormous opportunity for the textile industry in the country to tap the global market. China demonstrated the scale of the market that exists globally, and it is for ... More

EDUCATION

Teacher's pet
Software tools can transform the class so students will pick up their books with relish — not resignation. More

CINEMA

`Indian films need global appeal to go beyond diaspora'
THOUGH 3.8 billion people watched Indian films last year compared to 3.2 billion viewers for Hollywood films, India's share in the global industry valued $200 billion is less than 0.2 per cent. Obviously, much of the Indian film viewing is at ... More

SMALL SAVINGS

Ordinance sets stage for PPF closure
WITH the Ordinance for setting up a pension regulator having been promulgated, the stage is now set for the popular Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme to be finally dragged to the guillotine. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government ... More

EVENTS

IIM K statistics meet
THE IIM Kozhikode (IIM K) has organised an International Conference on Reliability, Statistics and related fields. The conference - sponsored by the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) - is meant to provide a platform ... More

Seminar on lab systems in Thiruvananthapuram

In Hyderabad today

Cardiac intervention workshop in Hyderabad on Jan 12

Engagements

NATURAL CALAMITIES

Disaster management body soon
IN order to tackle the challenges posed by natural calamities such as the December 26 tsunami, the Government has decided to set up a National Disaster Management Authority shortly and install an Early Warning System. A Bill would be ... More

Fisheries college scientists to study impact of tsunami
TWO teams of scientists of Fisheries College and Research Institute (FCRI) at Tuticorin are undertaking a study of the impact of December 26 tsunamion the bio-diversity and biomass of fisheries resources and on the composition and quantity of ... More

Isha Foundation keen to adopt tsunami-hit villages
THE Coimbatore-based Isha Foundation - a public charitable trust - has, with the authorisation of the District Collector, adopted the Thiruchorpuram Village in Cuddalore District. This village was among those hit severely by tsunami on ... More

Kalam urges NRIs to set up body for disaster research
AGAINST the backdrop of the tsunami tragedy, the President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has urged the Indian population living abroad to launch an Overseas Indian Research Foundation to research areas such as prediction of earthquakes. With a ... More

Real crisis management
Emergency is the time for action, not for deliberation. A Crisis Management Committee is needed not to decide what orders should be issued during the emergency but to decide what should be done in the future to handle such crises better. Unfortunatel y, we do the reverse: Hold a Crisis Management Committee during the crisis, get in the way of urgent action, and forget about crisis management once the danger is past. This system impedes; it does not learn, says P. V. Indiresan. More

Lessons in disaster management
AFTER an initial bout of confused debility and slackness, the Kerala Government seems to have recovered enough of its wits and begin offering succour to the hundreds of fishing communities along the State's coast affected by the ... More

Hoping to enter sea?
A fisherman repairs his boat at Chellanam in Kochi, preparing to venture into the seas to try his luck. Many fishing boats were damaged during the tsunami attack. The post-tsunami propaganda that sea fish was unsafe for consumption has affected ... More

Govt to set up early warning system for natural calamities
IN order to tackle the challenges posed by natural calamities such as the December 26 tsunami, the Government has decided to set up a National Disaster Management Authority shortly and install an Early Warning System. A Bill would be ... More

StanChart gesture
MUMBAI: Standard Chartered Plc has committed $5 million (around Rs 22 crore) to relief and reconstruction activities in countries affected by recent tsunami. The bank will channel its contributions through local relief funds in ... More

Allahabad Bank's contribution
KOLKATA: The Chairman and Managing Director of Allahabad Bank, Mr O.N. Singh, has handed over a cheque for Rs 5 crore to the Prime Minister, as the bank's contribution to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund. The amount ... More

Chamber's mite for tsunami-hit
COIMBATORE: The Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), Coimbatore, has contributed Rs 3 lakh towards tsunami relief.The ICCI President, Mr A. Sakthivel, handed over the donation to the Coimbatore District Collector, Mr S. ... More

Apollo donation to AP relief fund

Contributions to The Hindu Relief Fund

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