The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, September 26, 2006

`MBAs must work with multi-functional personality'
"MBAs are a nice bunch of people, they know how to put things across, have good communication skills and good habits, but they do not stay back. They do not have the commitment to the employer," said Mr P.B. Sampath, Director and Secretary, TAFE ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Visakha Co-op Bank dividend
The Visakhapatnam Co-operative Bank has declared six per cent dividend for the year 2005-2006. The announcement was made at the annual general meeting of the bank here on Sunday by the Chairman, Mr M. Anjaneyulu. He said the ... More

Vizag airport to get new terminal complex
Ministry identifies 35 non-metro airports for development More

AP police raid Amway offices
The company says it is yet to be informed of the reasons for this inquiry. More

US education fair in Hyderabad
Linden Educational Services is organising a US universities fair here on September 27. The range of programmes being offered are accounting, advertising, agriculture, chemical engineering, IT, tourism, journalism, psychology, social work etc, ... More

Meet on cerebral palsy
The Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy (IACP) is organising its firs national conference at Hyderabad during November 25 and 26, and a workshop on spasticity management on November 24 and 25. Experts, medical professionals and ... More

KERALA
Kerala is a loser in BPCL-KRL merger, say experts
The recent merger of Kochi Refineries Ltd (KRL) with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is considered by many experts here as a loss to Kerala. "The State has lost a good company, which it could showcase before a prospective foreign ... More

Assurance on Kochi Port
The State Minister for Fisheries and Harbour Engineering, Mr S. Sarma, has said that the State Government will extend all possible help for the development of Kochi Port. Addressing the 109th annual session of the Indian Chamber of Commerce ... More

Meet focuses on marine biodiversity
The Indian Ocean Biogeographic Information System (IndOBIS) will initiate steps to develop products, tools and protocols for marine biodiversity informatics and help evolve guidelines to encourage information and communication between technology ... More

OfficeTiger to double staff in Kerala centre
To take up more space in Chennai More

ICSA bags CPCDL deal
ICSA (India) has received an order of Rs 67.5 crore from Central Power Distribution Company Ltd, Andhra Pradesh that seeks to convert Low Tension distribution system to high voltage distribution system. The company in a statement ... More

Nabard gives Rs 41 cr under RIDF to Kerala
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has released Rs 40.98 crore to the Kerala Government under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF). The amount is to be utilised for implementing 183 projects in the ... More

House panel for new dam at Mullaperiyar
Petitions panel calls for `dam break analysis' of existing dam More

School wins TCS IT Wiz prize
The Tata Consultancy Services sponsored Kerala edition of TCS IT Wiz competition, organised for the first time in Kochi received overwhelming response from the student community. Over 800 students from 60 schools from class VIII ... More

Tata AIG opens Kottayam branch
Tata AIG Life Insurance Company Ltd has announced the opening of a full service branch office at Kottayam. Ms Neetasha Joshi, Zone Business Head, South of the company, inaugurated the 83rd branch of the Tata AIG Life. The opening ... More

Buffalo products available in Kerala
Buffalo Inc, Japan in association with Advent Infotech announced its foray into the Kochi market through the distribution network of Ciril Michael of Southsouth Technologies. Buffalo is a global leader in design development ... More

KARNATAKA
Manipal Heart launches centre for preventive cardiology
Manipal Heart Foundation has said it has introduced a Comprehensive Centre for Preventive Cardiology and Hypertension with dedicated doctors and support staff. The centre headed by interventional cardiologist, Dr Prathap Kumar, offers a ... More

Call for investment in higher education
Extensive use of existing infrastructure in education and investment in higher education are the prerequisite to make India a developed nation by 2020, according to Mr B.R. Bhat, General Manager, Corporation Bank. Inaugurating ... More

Bangalore to host lab solutions expo
The laboratory solutions industry's third expo, Analytica-Anacon, is being held in November and for the first time in Bangalore. Nearly 120 exhibitors are expected at the event slated from November 16-18, the organisers said in a ... More

Programme on heart ailments
Cardiological Society of India, Karnataka Chapter in association with Rotary club has lunched a year-long awareness programme on prevention of heart ailments by organising a medical check-up camp at the Rotary club on World Heart ... More

Promote no-frills accounts, says Banking Ombudsman
The Banking Ombudsman (Karnataka) has urged the bankers in Dakshina Kannada district to popularise `no-frills' accounts to provide banking facilities to more people. Addressing the bankers of Dakshina Kannada district at Kanara Chamber of ... More

OTHER STATES
To achieve a turnaround in Bihar
Historical disadvantages, limited post-Independence development strategies, and the vivisection of the State, have crippled the public financial and economic structure of Bihar. More

Tea sector blames Centre for ULFA `notices'
Assam tea industry blames Govt peace initiatives More

MAHARASHTRA
`No cause for panic on co-op banks'
`With administrators taking over the banks, many of them have had a turn around' More

GUJARAT
New deadline for filing I-T returns
Income-tax assessees in Gujarat have been given more time to file the returns. The deadline has now been extended to September 30 this year, against the earlier date of July 31, in view of the floods in that State, the Central ... More

WEST BENGAL
Kolkata Chamber to open `NRI Cell'
BNCCI to appoint a coordinator in the US More

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