The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 07, 2005

BHEL plans more centres of excellence in R&D
THE corporate R&D arm of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has announced that it is taking steps to establish more centres of excellence in technological areas where it has achieved distinct core competence. In a press release here, BHEL ... More

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hundred movies in one DVD?
WELL, the technology for packing one hundred movies in one DVD is not there yet, but a Singapore company, listed in Australia but doing development work in Chennai, is almost there. MatrixView Ltd has developed a technology that can compress ... More

OPEN OFFERS

Holcim not to increase open offer price for ACC
SWISS cement major Holcim is not considering an increase in its open offer price for Associated Cement Companies, said a senior official with DSP Merrill Lynch, which is the advisor to the multinational for its acquisition into Associated Cement ... More

COMPANY LAW

Draft concept rules propose strict norms for company names
THINKING about incorporating a company? Ensure that the proposed name should not have a phonetic similarity or is a translation of a name of the existing known company. The Ministry of Company Affairs has stated this in the guidelines for name ... More

`New company law will clearly mark areas of jurisdiction'
THE new company law provisions, which will be integrated in a Bill to be piloted in the monsoon session of Parliament, will outline the ambit of other regulatory statutes, enactments and regulatory authorities regarding companies. Ms Komal ... More

MANAGEMENT

`Manthan' seminar in Mangalore
MANGALORE: The Srinivas College of Post Graduate Management Studies, Mangalore, will hold `Manthan 2005' on February 8. A college release said that `Manthan' would give more insight into quality circle aspect of management. The Deputy ... More

INTERVIEW

`Our businesses have strong inter-linkages'
We plan to have around 30-32 stores operational by March 2006 in north India. The petrol pumps are set up by Bharat Petroleum, while we run them. We sell all products required by farmers such as seeds, fertilisers, farm equipment and we have agronomi sts in every store to give farmers the right technical advice. More

DIVERSIFICATION

Hidesign mulls diversification to hospitality sector, IPO
`All the outlets company-owned as we were not happy with the franchisee model.' More

SICK UNITS

Appeal filed against BIFR order to wind up Autokast
THE State Government has filed an appeal before the Appellate Authority for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction against the order of the Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) to wind up State-owned Autokast Ltd at Chertalai ... More

OUTLOOK

Tata Steel fast-tracking inbound logistics
AT THE current production level of four million tonnes of hot metal annually, Tata Steel's Jamshedpur plant handles about 13million tonnes of raw materials — comprising 4.1 million tonnes of coal (1.8 million ... More

PEOPLE

Ajay Kumar to head Alpha Channels (South)
HYDERABAD: Mr R. Ajay Kumar has been appointed the Southern business head of Alpha Channels. The Alpha brand is part of the Zee Network. Zee, which has made its Southern foray by launching Alpha Telugu, is looking at expanding to other ... More

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