Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, January 21, 2005
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, January 21, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY CLIMATE & WEATHER Extreme climates to extend to more areas, warns study THE overall area experiencing either very dry or very wet conditions is showing a tendency to occupy a greater fraction of the Earth's land area as the globe becomes increasingly warmer. Even as drought has expanded across land areas, the ... More ECONOMY Inflation drops on fall in food article prices THE annual wholesale price index-based inflation fell to a 31-week low of 5.6 per cent for the week ended January 8, from 5.78 per cent recorded during the previous week. The fall recorded in the point-to-point inflation rate was largely on ... More
Meghalaya annual Plan fixed at Rs 800 crore ENVIRONMENT 
Karan Singh warns against river-linkingTHE grand plan to link the rivers in the country may not be desirable, as it is fraught with grave environmental hazards besides the huge cost involved, according to Dr Karan Singh, former Union Minister and member of the Rajya Sabha. He was ... More FOREIGN TRADE India, Chile sign framework pact to expand trade INDIA and Chile on Thursday signed a framework agreement on economic cooperation to promote trade expansion by providing limited preferential access to each other's markets initially. The Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, and ... More
Assocham finds new areas to boost Indo-Pak trade
Supplies to SEZ entitled to DFRC benefits INFRASTRUCTURE Road closed... to mad traffic As mayor of Bogota, Enrique Penalosa rescued the city from its dangerously overgrown traffic. His message: Cities must be designed for people, not cars. More
GIM projects remain pipedreams PETROLEUM LPG kitchen fuel no. 3 AS recently as 2001, the year of the last Census, firewood was still the most important source of kitchen fuel in rural India. 88.6 million households (64 per cent of the total) depended on it. Crop residues and cow dung, next on the list, ... More
IOC to bid with Varun-Exmar for Petronet LNG shipping deal PHARMACEUTICALS MNCs told to supply `patented' anti-cancer drug WHILE multinational anti-cancer drug manufacturers had prevented Indian drug firms from distributing the life-saving medicine on the ground that they held the patent rights and had also been granted the exclusive marketing rights (EMR) for these ... More
Price pressure in US cause for concern for drug cos
`Allow simvastatin drug sales over the counter' POWER National Electricity Policy soon THE Government will be announcing the National Electricity Policy over the next couple of weeks. The guidelines for competitive bidding and the norms for captive power plants would also be finalised shortly, the Power Secretary, Mr R. V. Shahi, ... More
Lighting up their homes, not by moon or stars STEEL Steel sector too may get sops given to infrastructure projects THERE may be some good news for companies planning to set up new steel capacities. Fiscal incentives such as tax holidays, easier norms for external commercial borrowings, and facilities to develop ports and berths are likely to be made ... More MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS Electronic library set up in Kottayam Medical College KOTTAYAM: An electronic library has been set up in the Kottayam Medical College with help from the old students of the Medical College working in the US and the Association of Kerala Medical Graduates. Dr N.Sudhayakumar, Principal, and ... More
NIMS to be made full-fledged varsity REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Build Expo 2005 to open tomorrow in Coimbatore THE bi-annual construction fair, Build Expo 2005, will begin here from January 22. The six-day fair event, to be held at the Codissia Intech Trade Fair Complex, will showcase the latest offerings from construction industries of national and ... More LEATHER CLE urges Govt to reconsider cut in duty drawback rate THE leather industry has expressed shock and concern over the reduction in duty drawback rates for major items of export and has urged the Centre to reconsider the change. According to a press release from the Council for Leather Exports (CLE), ... More MINING & QUARRYING 
Moving earthA man transports sand on a country boat in a picturesque locale in Alappuzha district. Sand mining continues to blight Kerala rivers, but it is a source of livelihood for thousands of people. ... More FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FDI in retail not to affect small players: Assocham A STUDY carried out by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has found that small retailers in India would not be affected for the next 10 years in case FDI is permitted in the retail sector. The study titled ... More RURAL DEVELOPMENT Syndicate Bank venture fund for rural projects THE public sector Syndicate Bank has set up a venture capital fund along with Shell Foundation International. The venture fund would have a corpus of Rs 12.5 crore. Shell has contributed about half million dollars for the venture fund. The fund ... More TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS INTUC calls for ban on iron ore export THE Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) is of the view that exporting iron ore in bulk quantities to countries such as Japan will hurt the interests of the domestic steel industry in the long run and therefore, it should be done away ... More EVENTS Soup and bread fest in Coimbatore THE Residency, Coimbatore, is hosting a soup and bread festival till January 30 at its Pavilion restaurant. The Soup and Bread Festival is open along with the dinner buffet every day and with the lunch buffet on Sundays. Six breads — ... More
Health Conclave in Mumbai on February 4
Meet on peritoneal dialysis begins today
EXPORTS & IMPORTS 
Spices exports top 2.5-lakh-t targetEXPORTS of spices crossed the 2004-05 target of 2.5 lakh tonne during the first nine months of the current fiscal, following substantial increase in shipments of certain low value items. In terms of value, it has gone up by Rs 229 crore from that ... More NATURAL CALAMITIES 
All for a good causeHundreds of school children of West Bengal walked to collect funds and sympathy for the Tsunami affected people in Kolkata on Thursday. |