The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 17, 2006

Yellow Pages Tiruchi edition
Getit Infomediary will be bringing out its first edition of the Yellow Pages and Corporate Pages for Tiruchi in November, according to Mr R. Srikanth, DGM. The directory would provide information about products and service ... More

Honda launches Civic in Coimbatore
Honda Siel Cars India Ltd is planning to ramp up production from 50,000 units a year to 1,00,000 units by March 2008, two years ahead of the original target. The company is also on the lookout for establishing a new factory with a view to ... More

Vintage drive
SPIN-OFF EFFECT: The Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan flagging off a vintage car rally in Chennai on Sunday.

Sattur chamber seeks action on wax supply to match units
The Sattur Chamber of Commerce and Industries has urged the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Mr M. Karunanidhi, and the Union Minister for Petroleum products, Mr Murali Deora, to take action for the immediate supply of Type II wax for small match ... More

Revive gold card scheme: TEA
Knitwear exporters have suggested to the RBI to rationalise the fees being collected by the banks for various non-fund services extended to the exporters, with a view to reducing the transaction costs for the shippers. They have ... More

TN: Permits for more minibuses soon
Permits for 3000 additional minibuses would be issued soon, the Transport Minister, Mr K.N. Nehru, said, while speaking at the inauguration of new bus routes in Tiruchi City on Friday. A proposal for improving the metropolitan ... More

TN Chamber team meets Chief Minister
Office-bearers of the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry led by the President, Mr S. Rethinavelu, met the tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M. Karunanidhi, in Chennai earlier this week. They held detailed discussions and offered several ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Centre conducts study to prepare Business Registry
The Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has initiated a unique study that would attempt to map all business activity that takes place across the country. A comprehensive Business Registry will not only help the Government ... More

CED meet in Hyderabad
The Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) is organising a 10-day meet here on `Project ideas to start small-scale industry and small business' from July 20-29, 2006. Special focus would be on agro-food processing ... More

Stress on quality banking services
Customer service is of paramount importance if banks have to survive and thrive in the present competitive environment, and PSU banks, in particular, should focus on this area, according to Ms Deepali Pant Joshi, a banking ... More

FICCI to hold `Yuva 2006'
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), in association with the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) is organising `Yuva 2006', a conference-cum-exhibition focussing on the youth ... More

Bidding adieu
INS AMBA stands majestically before its decommissioning ceremony at the Naval Base in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. The ship was commissioned on December 28, 1968 at Odessa in the erstwhile USSR. ... More

Glittering memento
THE CHIEF JUSTICE of India, Mr V.K. Sabharwal, receiving a replica of the historic Charminar presented to him at the inauguration of the judicial officers' conference in Hyderabad on Sunday. The Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Mr ... More

Kakinada seeks rail connectivity
The port town of Kakinada has grown in importance in recent times with the construction of a deepwater port, the discovery of huge reserves of gas in the Krishna-Godavari basin nearby, and the plans of the Andhra Pradesh Government to set up a ... More

KERALA
SSI body seeks changes in policy to boost credit flow
Centre urged to focus on revival of sick units More

Project to bolster organic farming
The Kerala Government has drawn up a scheme for encouraging organic farming with a view to tapping the State's infinite possibilities in the sector. The scheme, with an outlay of Rs 2 crore, envisages financial assistance to farmers to take up ... More

Panel makes case for Kerala to increase own tax revenue
Report cites `major structural failing' in tax receipts More

KARNATAKA
New Mangalore Port thrust on IT
Implementation of information technology seems to be high on the agenda of New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT). The port, which was a pioneer in implementing the ISPS (International Ship and Port Facility Security) Code and the VTMS (vessel traffic ... More

New KCDC Director
Mr Muralidhar V. Prabhu, former President of Mangalore Cashew Manufacturers' Association, has been nominated as the Director of Karnataka Cashew Development Corporation (KCDC) Ltd. A press release by the Karnataka Cashew ... More

Indian candles light up US homes
Primacy Industries is supplying perfumed wax candles to major retailers More

Accenture's fourth R&D centre comes up in Bangalore
IT consulting and services major Accenture has set up its fourth R&D technology lab in Bangalore, which will be conducting research in the areas of systems integration and software engineering. The company plans to hire about 50 researchers by . More

OTHER STATES
Agenda for the week
FICCI (Eastern Regional Council): Banking conclave with the CMD, Union Bank of India, Mr M.V. Nair; 11.45 a.m.; Hotel Oberoi Grand, Kolkata. IIFT: Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Commerce, will inaugurate Two-year ... More

VAT panel asks UP to join tax info exchange system
The VAT panel has urged the Uttar Pradesh Government to join the National Tax Information Exchange System (TINXSYS), which has been put in place to facilitate information exchange between the sales tax departments across the country and establish ... More

MAHARASHTRA
Knights of Mumbai's terror evening
Ambulances lament absence of Govt emergency plan More

Diamond trade lost many members to serial blasts
Organisations express need for more security More

WEST BENGAL
Bengal to devise policy for SEZs
15 proposals already received for multi-product mega SEZs More

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