The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 07, 2006

URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Hyderabad to get urban entertainment centre
A consortium with Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd as the lead member would set up an urban entertainment centre project in the heart of Hyderabad, on a Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis. The Andhra Pradesh Government has awarded the project ... More

EMPLOYMENT
Job fair for testing professionals
Software testing jobs portal www.jobs4testing.com is planning to organise a job fair for software testing professionals on October 7 here. According to Mr TV. Radhakrishna, Chief ... More

CLIMATE & WEATHER
Monsoon rains beyond IMD expectations
Rainfall normal in 20 meteorological sub-divisions More

ECONOMY
Global economic outlook weakening: OECD
OECD composite leading indicators (CLI) signal a weakening outlook for major global economies. In a release today from Paris, OECD forecast that a slowing economic expansion lay ahead in the OECD area (covering 29 countries) with August 2006 ... More

Forrester sees slowdown in US tech spend
`No significant impact on Indian cos' More

Comments on investment panel proposals
The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, has sought the views of the Chief Ministers of all States on the recommendations of the Investment Commission. He has requested the Chief Ministers to send their views as early as possible, according to an ... More

ENVIRONMENT
Edible spoons
A CATERER OFFERS chewable spoons made of jowar and other cereals for breakfast at St Ann's College at Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad on Friday. Launched as a drive against use of plastic by Bekay's, a city-based firm run by a woman entrepreneur, the ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Ministry for full trade with Myanmar at Moreh
Restricted list of 22 items may go; RBI to look into banking hiccups More

INFRASTRUCTURE
In-principle approval for Salim Group SEZ
8 SEZs granted formal approval More

Medha Patkar-led group protests against SEZ
`Radh karo radh karo, SEZ radh karo'. This was the chant rendered by about 500 farmers, workers, small scale industrial workers who took part in the morcha taken out in Pune by the special economic zone (SEZ) Virodhi Sangharsha Samiti. The ... More

PETROLEUM
Reliance bags Hyderabad airport fuel farm operations
Storage capacity can handle fuel needs for 10 days More

PHARMACEUTICALS
Creative IT to set up pharma facility in Maharashtra
To bring in cos to outsource initial stages of drug development, multiple testing More

POWER
No power cut this year, says Kerala Minister
There will be no need of power cut or load-shedding in Kerala this year, according to Mr. A.K. Balan, Electricity Minister. He said in the Assembly on Friday that the water storage in the States' hydel reservoirs was lower than last year at ... More

TEXTILES
TUFS data shows capacity building in textile industry
Textiles export sees growth of 24 pc in the current year More

SSI
Seminar on credit rating
The Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) and National Small Industries Corporation will organise a seminar on `Credit rating for the small-scale sector' on Saturday. "Credit rating adds ... More

Nortel bets big on SMB segment
Launches slew of products exclusively for SMB More

EDUCATION
IFA plans high-end courses on global taxation
International Tax Academy to be operational before end of this fiscal. More

Innovator identification camp
The Vellore Institute of Technology is planning to hold the `Innovator Identification Camp 2006' at Coimbatore on Saturday. This would be one of the two camps proposed (the other at Chennai), which is aimed at reaching out to ... More

BL club at Vijayawada
A club of The Hindu-Business Line readers will be inaugurated here on Saturday morning, according to Mr M. Krishna Kiran, Regional General Manager of The Hindu, Vijayawada. The club will be inaugurated by Prof V. ... More

TN to revise college curriculum
To suit needs of ITES sector More

Varsity ropes in portal for online learning
To help students work on their soft skills More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
Indo-American Chamber head
Mr T. Gopichand, Managing Director of Tera Software was elected chairman of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Andhra Pradesh branch for 2006-2007. Its other members are Mr V. Anand Reddy (Sonali Castings) and Ms Shanti Kumar ... More

Pahwa to be IACC President
The Managing Director of Bry-Air (Asia) Pvt Ltd and the Group Chairman, Mr Deepak Pahwa, was elected the President of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) for the year 2006-07, at the recently held Executive Committee of ... More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Cartosat-2 launch pushed to Nov
The delay of around a month is not seen to make much difference to the users, unlike a delay over a communication satellite. More

CERAMICS
Realty boom drives up ceramic, tile firms' stocks
Expansion plans by select cos also bode well More

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
Govt sets up panel to open up legal services
Group of lawyers to work with US, UK counterparts More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
Compensation for delay in broadband connection
Consumers to be compensated for delays More

EVENTS
India driving competitiveness: Kamal Nath
"The challenge for India is to move a 100 million population dependent on unsustainable agriculture into the servicing and manufacturing sector to make sure the bubble does not burst," said Mr Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry. The ... More

Competitive India
The Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr Kamal Nath, flanked by the Chairman & CEO, HCL Technologies Ltd, Mr Shiv Nadar, and the AIMA President, Mr Sudhir Jalan, at the AIMA-33rd National Management Convention in the Capital on Friday. .. More

CONSUMERISM
Separate police for consumer fora sought
There is a need for a separate police force to deal with the mounting number of consumer cases in the State, as the police at present are unable to execute the non-bailable arrest warrants issued by the consumer fora, according to Mr Justice I.V. ... More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Bengal police probing data theft case
Data security is an international issue: Nasscom More