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TAMIL NADU
Amrita School of Business to host business festival
The Amrita School of Business, a constituent of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, is organising a national level `B-Fest' on December 1 and 2. The festival, styled `ASB Pragati' is being organised for the 9th year and it `aims to bring ... More

A case of `fake' documents
When Mr Narayanan's company, Annai Builders Real Estates Pvt Ltd, purchased a house in an auction held on behalf of UCO Bank in December, little did he suspect an impending legal tangle. The auction was for a property that was pledged by a ... More

Machinery, skills scarcity hits furniture industry
There are over a 1,000 factories in Tamil Nadu producing wooden furniture and other items for interiors. More

Airtel launches Voice SMS
Mobile phone service provider Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of Voice SMS in Tamil Nadu. It is a personalised message service that enables users to send a message in their own voice and in the language of their choice. "This ... More

HCL engineers get Japanese language certificate
HCL Technologies Ltd along with the Singapore-based Nihongo Bashi Institute for Japanese learning presented certificates of Japanese language proficiency to the second batch of 24 newly recruited engineers in HCL. Mr Yuji Okada, Consulate of ... More

`As in cricket matches, projects too count'
Does it not sound strange to hear that Six Sigma, a tool for perfection, has relevance to the game of cricket, particularly Indian cricket whose players are inconsistent in performance and often falter in a crunch and do not live up to the ... More

TN Road Development Company CEO quits
There has been a change of guard at Tamil Nadu Road Development Company Ltd (TNRDC) with its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Rohit Modi, quitting. The infrastructure company, which is handling the implementation of the IT Corridor project in ... More

TNEB seeks allocation of captive coal blocks
Clarification sought on pact with pvt players More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Swarnandhra jute mill begins production
Swarnandhra Jute Mills Pvt Ltd, set up at Pydhibheemavaram village in Srikakulam district at a cost of Rs 10 crore, started commercial production on Wednesday. The mill was inaugurated by Mr Mullapudi Harischandra Prasad, Chairman of Andhra ... More

Meet on corporate communications
The Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Andhra University, is conducting a two-day national seminar on corporate communications from Friday, in association with the National HRD Network, Visakhapatnam Management ... More

AP to diversify export basket
Andhra Pradesh is planning to diversify the export basket with emphasis on increasing exports from highly labour-intensive sectors. The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, said that though the State's share is about four per cent of the ... More

FM space gets hotter in Hyderabad
5 channels vying for listeners' attention More

KERALA
IIT to come up in Palakkad
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) being sanctioned by the Centre to the State will be established in Palakkad, said Mr Elamaram Kareem, Industries Minister. He said here on Thursday that the biggest challenge the State ... More

Kerala realty developers go digital
The real estate developers in Kerala are logging in to create hi-tech environment in designing flats and residential villas in the State. This was evident from the new projects announced by the Kochi-based Asset Homes, which has adopted ... More

Flawed economic policies blamed for agrarian crisis
Leading agro-economist Ms Utsa Patnaik has blamed wrong economic policies followed by successive governments for the agrarian crisis in the country. Delivering the keynote address at a seminar here, Ms Patnaik, a professor at the Jawaharlal ... More

Kerala property expo in Dubai
The Kerala Builders Forum is organising the `Kerala Property Expo' in Dubai on November 23 to 25. An earlier expo was successfully conducted in various locations in West Asia, including Dubai, last May. The Consul General of India in Dubai, ... More

Gulf Air plans daily flights from Kochi
Gulf Air intends to operate daily flights from Kochi in the Muscat-Bahrain sector from December 15 to January 31, 2007 with the limited open sky policy announced by the Union Civil Aviation Ministry, which is to be effective from December 15 to ... More

Azhikkal port work to be expedited
The Kerala Government has initiated steps to speed up the process of land acquisition for the development of Azhikkal port near Kannur. At a high-level meeting chaired by the Port Minister, Mr M. Vijayakumar here, it was ... More

Award for travel co
The Bangalore-based travel company, The Blue Yonder, has won a `highly commended' mention at the First Choice Responsible Travel Awards 2006. The company, which offers customised holidays in Kerala, was one of the three organisations that won ... More

Killing roads
PEOPLE HELP the driver of a goods carrier come out of the vehicle after it met with an accident in Kochi recently. Reports by the National Transport Planning and Research Centre reveal a three-fold increase in road accidents in Kerala and ... More

IIITM-K lecture series
Mr Russell. A. Mittermeier, President, Conservation International Washington DC, and Dr Cristina Mittermeier, Director, International League of Conservation. Photographers, are visiting the Indian Institute of Information ... More

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    KARNATAKA
    Kalanjali store to come up in Eva Mall
    `Kalanjali', the Hyderabad-based store for women's wear in Hyderabad has signed up about 20,000 sq ft space in Eva Mall in Bangalore. Eva Mall is a Prestige Group-promoted mall catering to women. The store is expected to open in the second ... More

    Shipping seminar from today
    The Mangalore chapter of Company of Master Mariners of India and the Mangalore unit of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers will conduct a two-day seminar on `Winds of change in shipping', in Mangalore from November 17. A press ... More

    Hutch, Nokia tie up for local language SMS
    Hutch and Nokia announced an alliance to offer - INDISMS - local language SMS for Hutch customers who use Nokia phones. This service will enable Hutch post and pre paid customers to send and receive SMS in Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, ... More

    OTHER STATES
    Orient Craft to develop textile SEZ in Gurgaon
    Garment exporter Orient Craft Ltd (OCL) plans to develop a 750-acre textile SEZ in Gurgaon with an investment of Rs 2,000 crore. "We have acquired 460 acres of land for the purpose and will expand it to 750 acres. The first phase of the SEZ ... More

    Home-spun
    KHADI DISPLAY: A scene at the Khadi pavilion at the India International Trade Fair 2006 in the Capital on Thursday.

    More

    MAHARASHTRA
    Taxi fare
    A culinary ride aboard a trendy restaurant housed in a charming heritage property in south Mumbai. More

    Coastal vessels operation stalled in Maharashtra
    As oil cos cut off fuel supply to them More

    Dabhol project to get gas by March-end
    The Dabhol project is likely to switch to using gas as fuel by March-end next year in place of expensive naphtha being utilised for current operations. "The Petroleum Ministry has assured us of gas or LNG supplies starting March-end 2007," ... More

    Somaiya Institute's workshop
    K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR) is organising a workshop on `Brand Management' on November 18. The workshop is intended for managers who deal in brands. Mr M.G. Parameshwaran, Executive Director, ... More

    WEST BENGAL
    Kolkata investors warm up to on-line trading
    Easy access to Internet is driving growth More

    Bengal set to announce new norm for special economic zones
    To earmark 50 pc land for industrial usage More

    Concern over RBI's move to de-link public debt management
    `States in the North East will be hit hard' More

    Italian cos keen to invest in Bengal
    Several Italian companies have expressed their keenness to invest in eastern India in general and West Bengal in particular. The sectors in which these Italian companies are scouting for investment opportunities include auto and auto ... More






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