The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Emirates plans daily Dubai-Perth service
EMIRATES airline announced that it will launch a second daily service between Dubai and Perth. Initially, the service will be launched with four weekly flights from March 2, which will be escalated to a daily in September, according to a ... More

BA offers special London return fares at Rs 14,500
AFTER Air Sahara wooed the Indian masses with a promotional return airfare of Rs 10,000 plus taxes to London and Jet Airways offered a return airfare for Rs 18,000 plus taxes, it is the turn of British Airways. On Monday, the airline announced ... More

Qatar Air to launch services to Nagpur soon
QATAR Airways is to launch a three-times-a-week service between Doha and Nagpur from this summer, the airline's Chief Executive Officer, Mr Akbar Al Baker, said on Monday. "The airline will launch the flight with an Airbus A-319 aircraft that ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

GMR submits Rs 500-cr bank guarantee for Delhi airport modernisation
THE GMR group, which has been selected for the modernisation and restructuring programme of Delhi airport, today submitted a Rs 500-crore bank guarantee to the Government. "The bank guarantee is with the Government and shows the group's ... More

SHIPPING

Petronet LNG calls pre-qualification bids for transportation
PETRONET LNG Ltd (PLL) has floated global tenders for pre-qualification of ship owners and operators for transportation of LNG to its proposed terminal at Kochi. PLL, a joint venture company promoted by BPCL, GAIL, IOC and ONGC, is setting up ... More

Cochin Shipyard lays keel for Clipper's 3rd carrier
The vessel is to be designed and built as a single screw diesel engine driven bulk carrier for unrestricted worldwide service. More

SC panel concludes talks on Clemenceau
THE Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes has concluded its discussions on the question of permitting the decommissioned French warship `Clemenceau' into India, according to Dr G. Thyagarajan, Chairman of the committee. The ... More

Coal imports at Paradip: NTPC picks STC
Earlier, MMTC was the canalising agent for NTPC and handled an estimated 1.2 million tonnes. More

Petronet LNG takes over land from CPT
PETRONET LNG Ltd took possession of the allotted 32 hectares of land from the Cochin Port Trust on Monday for setting up its second LNG terminal in Kochi. Petronet LNG, a joint venture company formed by the Union Government to set up the LNG ... More

ROADWAYS

Toll terminus
If everything goes as per schedule, the Dhulagarh toll terminus on the NH6 near Kolkata should be ready for operation within the next few months, thus making yet another new addition to the number of such terminuses currently operating in West ... More

Earn while you drive
A view of a pothole at Vatal Nagaraj Road in Bangalore on Monday. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has declared some arterial and sub-arterial roads pothole-free. Whoever identifies a pothole on the roads in south, east and west zones will be ... More

APSRTC hikes fares
TRAVELLING in buses run by the public sector carrier will be costlier from Wednesday. Wasting no time after the State Government gave it permission to hike fares recently, the AP State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) has decided to increase ... More

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