The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, May 04, 2006

Toilets or TV sets — A tale of distorted priorities
Even in a reasonably `developed' State like Tamil Nadu, the demand, and promise, is not for public conveniences. More

Bharat Darshan train to open up for domestic tourists
Train to start from Madurai and proceed to North More

ANDHRA PRADESH

`AP to look at ADB funds at appropriate time'
Ministers pitch in to explain the benefits of hosting meet More

AP to set up software escrow account
The Andhra Pradesh Government has become the first Indian Government entity to set up a software escrow account. This places the source code of eProcurement tender management software application development by C1 India in an escrow account with ... More

`AP to look at ADB funds at appropriate time'
How does Hyderabad benefit from hosting the Asian Development Bank (ADB) meet? Has the State Government made concrete proposals to secure funding for its ambitious projects? Confronted by these questions, three senior Ministers in the Andhra ... More

Seminar on coir industry on May 7
A one-day state-level seminar on coir industry is being organised by the Coir Board at Rajahmundry on May 7, according to a press release issued by the regional officer, Mr T.P. Padmanabhan. Urging the entrepreneurs to participate in the ... More

Textile unit coming up in AP
Mr S. Shreenivasa Rao, who has resigned as Director, TVS Electronics, is putting up a Rs 60-crore textile spinning unit called Spads Textiles near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. Mr Rao told Business Line that in the first ... More

Emaar opens Novotel Hyderabad
Emaar Properties has announced the opening of its first full-scale hotel — Novotel Hyderabad. It hosted the delegates of the 39th annual meeting of the board of governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) here on Wednesday. ... More

KERALA

Consumer price index up in Kerala
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JRG Securities opens 403rd branch in Kochi
JRG Securities opened its 403rd branch at Vyttila in Kochi on Wednesday. Mr N.R. Pillai, former General Manager, ONGC, inaugurated the branch and Mr Biju Theruvan, Vice-President, JRG Securities, initiated the first trade. JRG ... More

New CtP machine inaugurated
The Governor of Meghalaya, Mr M.M. Jacob, inaugurated the new Computer-to-Plate (CtP) machine installed at the St Joseph's Press here on Wednesday. Imported from Canada, the CtP Trendsetter system offers end-to-end automation in ... More

KARNATAKA

Karnataka IT exports may touch Rs 50,000 cr
70,000 new jobs created by IT sector in the State during FY06 More

Farmers' convention
The Moodbidri zone of the Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha (KRRS) will organise a convention of farmers at Moodbidri in Dakshina Kannada district on May 5. A KRRS press release said here that the convention would discuss issues ... More

OTHER STATES

Food Bazaar, mango farmers sign pact
Retail chain Food Bazaar, Maharashtra mango farmers and the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB) have signed an agreement that allows Food Bazaar to purchase mangoes directly from the State's farmers. "The deal ... More

IIMC signs pact with Singapore varsity
For students, faculty exchange programmes More

MAHARASHTRA

Mahajan passes away
Mr Pramod Mahajan, BJP General Secretary and former Union Minister for Telecommunications, Information Technology and Parliamentary Affairs, succumbed to the bullet injuries he sustained on April 22. The 56-year-old `Generation Next' leader of ... More