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CLIMATE & WEATHER


CUSAT develops method to predict monsoon onset over Kerala
RESEARCH scientists at the Centre for Monsoon Studies of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) have developed an objective method to predicting three to four weeks in advance, the onset of monsoon over Kerala. The model ... More

EXCISE AND CUSTOMS


Helpline on Central Excise
MANGALORE: The Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, Mysore, Mr G.K. Pillai, inaugurated a helpline on Central Excise and Service Tax at Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) here recently. Claiming it as the first helpline in ... More

FOREIGN TRADE


GATS revised offer may push for further relaxation
The importance of outsourcing as a business model and the shift in focus from Mode 4 to Mode 1, particularly in software services, which saw a boom in back office establishment here for foreign clients, has raised a lot of stake for India under GATS talks. Hence, the revised offer might insist on a greater push for liberalisation in cross-border trade in services under Mode 1 More

HEALTH


The key: 10 lines of code
The challenge: Storing 16 GB scans for numerous patients per day for a period of seven years. How did MatrixView meet it? More

Making a difference
THE Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Bangalore is using MatrixView's software. The installation was done free of cost for the institute. Praveen Vemula, technical officer at the institute, spoke to eWorld. Here's the ... More

POWER


Maharashtra wants coal blocks back from KPCL
FACED with the need to mobilise additional coal supplies to feed its power plants, the Maharashtra Government is likely to exert pressure on the UPA Government at the Centre to revert an earlier decision of the Coal Ministry to allocate a string ... More

`Need for shift in energy strategy'
INDIA needs a paradigm shift in its energy strategy to bring down the energy intensity per unit and avoid growth deceleration, according to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The chamber has issued a paper with the ... More

EDUCATION


Onto a CA trajectory after Class X
R. Sivakumar on the proposed changes to CA education More

Coping with copying
MAY 2005 CA Final paper on cost management has a compulsory question carrying 16 marks. It begins thus: "Carlon Ltd makes and sells a single product, the unit specifications are as follows: Direct materials X 8 sq metre at Rs 40 per sq metre; ... More

Indian Bank focusing on education loans
INDIAN Bank is focusing on tie-ups with professional-educational institutions across the country for spot sanction of educational loans. Speaking to Business Line here, the Executive Director, Mr B. Sambamurthy, said that the bank has ... More

FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING


`Food-processing sector to grow 10 pc by 2010'
THE food-processing sector is expected to grow at 10 per cent per year by 2010, attracting a minimum investment of Rs 2,000 crore, according to a study by the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Assocham). Called the "Food Processing ... More

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS


AP to upgrade nursing schools to colleges
WITH an objective to prepare nurses to cope up with advancements in the fields of medicine and related sciences, the Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to upgrade all nursing schools located in the State to colleges. Last year, the Indian ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION


Heera group's new projects in Kerala
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Heera Construction Company, prominent builders and property developers, will set up four more premium properties in the State during the current fiscal. The 25-year-old company has built up 20-lakh sq ft of premium ... More

LEATHER


Pak tanners seeking tie-ups in effluent tech
A delegation of tanners from Pakistan is looking at tying up with the leather industry here to source pollution treatment technology. A team from Sialkot, Pakistan, a leading centre for tanneries, met representatives of the All-India Skin & ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS


CII seeks faster approval for crop biotech exports
THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has called for shorter regulatory approval of crop biotechnology meant for exports (through export zones), while ensuring that there is no leakage into the domestic market. The industry body said ... More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY


University of Hyderabad to get Rs 35 cr from DRDO
THE University of Hyderabad (UoH) will get a Rs 35-crore grant-in-aid from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to set up an Advanced Centre for Research in High Energy Materials. The grants (for capital expenditure on ... More

MINING & QUARRYING


Mining congress in Kolkata in Jan
THE Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI), the oldest institute of its kind in Asia, has decided to organise the first Asian Mining Congress coinciding with its proposed three-day international mining exhibition, to be ... More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT


AP to rationalise SHGs' interest rate subsidy
THE Andhra Pradesh Government will put in place a system from July 1, which would ensure that self-help groups (SHGs) would have to pay only 3 per cent per annum as interest to banks. Currently, the Government is providing interest subsidy to ... More

EVENTS


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    ECONOMIC OFFENCES


    Pangs of corruption in Kerala
    AS a land that is generally looked up to for its laudable standards in social and human development, Kerala ought naturally to have been at the head of the table in matters of good governance, transparency and the eradication of patronage and ... More

    BOOKS


    Next step is 8 pc growth: Jalan
    WHILE liberalisation in the 90s helped India jump from a growth rate of 4 per cent to 6 per cent, the country now has to worry about moving from 6 per cent to 8 per cent growth, according to Dr Bimal Jalan, Member of Parliament and former ... More


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