The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Cashing in early
BUSY AS A BEE: Women engaged in transplanting paddy at a village in Tamil Nadu's Kanchipuram district. With most of the reservoirs having ample water following heavy rains during the north-east monsoon, farmers have begun early sowing of the food ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH

AP: Foodgrains production target 205 lakh tonnes
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Awards for researchers
The Dr K.V. Rao Scientific Society research awards given annually to young researchers would be diversified into new disciplines like mathematics, medicine, and biotechnology from 2007. Currently, the awards are given in ... More

Succour on wheels
WITH WATER getting scarce, household dwellers are the worst-hit. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board gears up to meet the challenge by opting for small vehicles like auto rickshaws to move around the narrow roads in slum ... More

Greentech meet from April 8
The fifth annual Greentech Foundation international conference and exhibition on occupational health, fire safety, and security will be held during April 8-10. The National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH), ... More

KERALA

BIS devises quality tag for Govt depts
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has developed a quality standard that can be applied to Government departments, said Mr S.P. Sharma, Director-General, BIS. Announcing this at a press conference in the city today, he said the standard — ... More

SBI staff hold sit-in demonstration
The anti-labour environment that bank employees are increasingly being made to contend with at the workplace is largely the legacy of the new economic reforms being rolled out in the country, said Mr V. S. Achuthanandan, veteran Marxist and ... More

Scarce commodity
A WOMAN CARRIES drinking water in suburban Kochi. Several parts of the State experience acute water shortage, even though summer has just begun. Election campaigns in these areas focus on the ... More

FCI bags ISO 9001-2000
The Kerala region of Food Corporation of India (FCI) has been awarded the ISO 9001-2000 quality certification by the Bureau of Indian Standards. Announcing this in the city today, Mr S.P. Sharma, Director General, Bureau of ... More

KARNATAKA

Campco plans setting up import-export cell
To help identify markets for products More

IIM-B revises annual fee
The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, today announced its intention to hike the annual fee for its post-graduate programme in management. Prof Amarnath Krishnaswamy, Head, Communications Unit, said ... More

Infosys unhappy over `Karnataka's treatment'
`We will go where we are wanted' More

Grameena bank biz grows 22 pc
The Dharwad-based Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank — a regional rural bank sponsored by Syndicate Bank — recorded a total business of Rs 3,665 crore during 2005-06 registering a growth of 22.17 per cent over the previous ... More

OTHER STATES

There's hope of rebuilding Bihar
"The mission of building Bihar is as big as that of rebuilding Europe after World War II." More

Mock funeral
GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS conduct mock funeral for turtles outside the office of the Chief Wildlife Warden in Bhubaneswar on Monday to protest mass slaughter of turtles in the State. The State Government's failure to enforce the ban on trawling in ... More

MAHARASHTRA

EcoSecurities in pact with Amruthakrishna to buy CERs
EcoSecurities Group Plc, the originator of carbon credit projects, and Amruthakrishna Power Generation Ltd, a power solutions and industrial consultancy provider from Secunderbad, have signed a purchase agreement to buy certified emission ... More

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