Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Sunday, May 15, 2005 |
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY INVESTMENTS Home loan conversion, a mixed blessing IT IS NOW more than a year since the interest rate honeymoon ended for Indian borrowers and banks. While the interest rate on government securities has since edged up by about 1.5 percentage points, thaton home loans has not gone up by as ... More COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES Chairperson of power Appellate Tribunal sworn in THE Power Minister, Mr P.M. Sayeed, on Friday administered the oath of Office and Secrecy to the Chairperson and the Members of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity. In accordance with the provisions of the Electricity Act, 2003, Mr Justice ... More FERTILISERS Urea producers: Pare exposures FOREIGN TRADE 
Afghanistan offers biz opportunities in mining, constructionALONG with horror stories, quite a few jokes are in circulation in Afghanistan. A combination of both pertains to the Ariana airline of Afghanistan, which most diplomats, including those from India, are not allowed to fly. Till the Indian ... More PETROLEUM Oil firms keen to tap rural market OIL marketing companies are shifting focus to the untapped rural market. The three major oil marketing PSUs in the country — Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum — have prepared blue-prints for setting up over 2,500 ... More PHARMACEUTICALS Large-cap Indian pharma — Effective drugs, but dosages may need tweaking POWER 
Power capacity addition in Eleventh Plan — States own resources must make bulk of contribution: MinistryTHE Power Ministry has begun planning well in advance to ensure that power generation capacity is added continuously through the Eleventh Plan rather than bunched toward the end of the Plan period. As part of this exercise, the Ministry has ... More
M.P., Bengal ask for more time to unbundle electricity boards EDUCATION More IITians pass up US degrees for high-paying jobs here AT the Mecca of engineering, the times are a-changing. Top-notch firms are wooing brand IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) like never before. This and a host of other factors have lead to a decline in the number of students opting for `higher ... More REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Residential property prices likely to rise further IF the sharp rise in residential property prices over the last 18 months took you by surprise, then there is more in store. Real estate players expect residential property prices to move further up - although slowly - on the back of ... More DISINVESTMENT National Investment Fund to get PSEs disinvestment money THE Government has decided that from April 1, realisation from disinvestments of public sector enterprises (PSEs) would be appropriated from the Consolidated Fund of India for the creation of the National Investment Fund (NIF). The NIF would ... More WTO ICAI seeks special treatment for developing nations in WTO regime THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) wants a special and differential treatment for developing nations under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime, especially in view of the multi-fold problems being faced by the developing ... More REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS CAG report has a lot of generalisations: NHAI THE National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has clarified that the CAG report pointing out discrepancies in NHAI's performance has "a lot of generalisations." While stating that overall performance of NHAI in terms of output in National ... More EXPORTS & IMPORTS India may gain as US clamps down on Chinese textiles INDIAN textile exporters are expected to gain the most from the US administration's decision to impose `safeguard quotas' on three categories of clothing shipments from China, mainly because Indian suppliers have a strong presence in some of ... More
Kamal Nath assures support to exporters for achieving target ECONOMIC OFFENCES Radio-frequency tags on drugs to check fakes WHEN global retail giant Wal-Mart insisted on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on prescription medicines sold from its outlets, Indian drug major Ranbaxy was quick to meet this requirement. Described as "the next level barcode," RFID ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Looking back May. 8-May. 14 Tobacco: Health Ministry may ban brand extension ads Haryana matches Delhi, pegs VAT rate on automotive tyres at 12.5 pc VAT panel may assume quasi-judicial role Company Affairs Ministry okays Sun group's DTH application Educational, medical institutions run on commercial lines may lose tax sop Japan alert on banned antibiotics — Govt steps up vigil on shrimp shipments Automobile sales top Rs 1,10,000 cr in value terms `Mud slinging is an occupational hazard' Essar Power plans Rs 4,000-cr investment in new capacity Industry posts 8 pc growth in 2004-05 Car sales up 13.6 pc in April; CVs down 15 pc Chinese textile exports to US dive 21 pc in March Coal shortage hits Rlys' freight movement plans Marginal rise in biz confidence index `Banks must recognise credit rating of SSIs by independent agencies' India set to become knowledge process outsourcing hub: CII Realty cos shift focus to non-metros |
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