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TAMIL NADU
HC directs Erode transport institute to reinstate 5 guards
The Madras High Court has directed Erode-based Institute of Road Transport Technology, a Tamil Nadu Government undertaking, to reinstate five security guards who were removed from their job by the management on the ground that they were engaged ...
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Agriculture to get priority in XI Plan
To focus on infrastructure too
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Eighth agri science congress begins today
Includes session for panchayat leaders
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Residency Hotels Group eyeing tier II cities in South
The Residency Group of Hotels is eyeing tier II cities in the South for expansion and growth. It has, over the last decade-and half, strengthened its presence across Chennai, Bangalore and Coimbatore. It took over a sick-hotel in Karur about a ...
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GLIM achieves 100% placement
The Chennai-based Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) achieved 100 per cent placement for its third batch of management graduates, according to the institute's Executive Director, Prof S. Sriram. Cognizant Technology Solutions, the ...
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ANDHRA PRADESH
Pack houses to be set up for export of mangoes
AP agency opening facilities in Tirupati, Nuziveedu
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Energy-efficient, eco-friendly fishing urged
There is a need to promote energy-efficient, responsible and eco-friendly fishing in the country, and the Central Institute for Fisheries Technology (CIFT) will help the traditional fishermen as well as the industry in the endeavour, according to ...
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ICICI Bank begins work on skyscraper
ICICI Bank has begun work on a 44-storey building in the Financial District on the outskirts of Hyderabad at Rs 1,000 crore. The project, which is being taken on an eight-acre site, once completed would employ 25,000 people, according to Mr ...
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DuPont to make Hyderabad technical centre for India
Plans Rs 200-cr investment in R&D centre
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IPE invites applications
The Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) has announced that the last date for receiving applications from the CAT 2007 candidates to its Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) programme is February 19. Candidates ...
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SISI organises workshop
SISI, Hyderabad and National Productivity Council, Hyderabad Chapter are jointly organising a half-day workshop on "Productivity for Global Competitiveness" on Wednesday at the SISI. Micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, and their senior ...
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MoU signed for Vijayawada, Rajahmundry airport boost
AAI hopes to develop 35 non-metro airports by 2010
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New diapers from P&G
Procter & Gamble launched its new diapers - New Pampers - here on Monday. The new diapers, according to a company press release, absorb urine better and facilitate uninterrupted sleep for the baby. The new diapers will be .
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KERALA
KSFE to expand business
The State-run Kerala State Financial Enterprises (KSFE) is charting a roadmap to position itself as a key player in the Government's resources mobilisation efforts. As a first step, the company is expanding its chits business to achieve a total ...
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Kerala Budget on March 9
A meeting of the State Cabinet here on Wednesday recommended to the Governor, Mr R. L. Bhatia, to convene the Budget session of the Assembly from March 2 to 29. Announcing this, the Chief Minister, Mr V. S. Achuthanandan, told newspersons here ...
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Ungu - Kerala's answer to biodiesel demand?
Kerala is a peripheral player in the biofuel market that is on the boil within the country and abroad. The reason is not far to seek: there's not much wasteland available to grow the Jatropha curcas shrub, an unadulterated biodiesel ...
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Spice Park to come up in Idukki
Jairam Ramesh calls for private participation
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ICAI office-bearers
Mr Babu Abraham Kallivayalil has been re-elected to the Southern India Regional Council (SIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the year 2007-10. Mr Kallivayalil is at present Secretary of the Regional ...
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Kottayam book fair
The 23rd International Book Fair will be inaugurated by poet Madhusudanan Nair at Nagampadam Grounds here on Thursday evening. Mr V.N. Vasavan, MLA, will preside. Mr Raju Narayana Swami, Collector, and Ms Reeba Varkey, Municipal ...
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Pilot training institute plans more centres
The American School of Aviation (ASA), the US-based pilot training institute, will have 50 aircraft by the year-end, according to Mr Arvinder Singh, Director, ASA India Pvt Ltd, its subsidiary. "Ours is a beginning to end solution," he added. ...
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KARNATAKA
Bangalore gets `Innovators Network'
Bangalore got its own `Innovators Network' on Wednesday. Innovators Network will fulfil the long-standing need of entrepreneurs and innovators, who wanted a platform for frequent interaction and seek guidance from successful role models in ...
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`Management fests help in network building'
Management festivals of business schools help students in network building. Such activities are the key for basic management education, according to Mr J.P. Menezes, President of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI). He was speaking ...
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OTHER STATES
Apollo to set up tyre retreading plant in Haryana
Apollo Tyres plans to invest in a retreading tyre plant in Haryana. According to senior officials, the company is going to invest Rs 5 crore in the satellite plant. Apollo intends having 2-3 such satellite plants strategically located in the ...
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MAHARASHTRA
Caparo Engg's Pune facility ready to go on stream
Caparo Engineering India Private Ltd's second plant in Pune, a greenfield project at Merkal, is almost ready and expected to get off the ground early next month. CEIPL, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Lord Swaraj Paul's Caparo Group of the UK, ...
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Fire-fighting pump set launched
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (KBL) has launched a fire-fighting pump set that is approved by Factory Mutual and listed by Underwriters Laboratories. The product was introduced at SAFE 2007, the international exhibition and conference to showcase ...
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WEST BENGAL
Bengal trade body moots creation of `land bank'
To facilitate expeditious allotment of land, avoid Singur-like situations
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Tea body identifies alternative crops
For crop diversification programme
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L&T achieves milestone in project
Larsen & Toubro achieved a critical milestone in the construction of the Second Vivekananda Bridge across the Hooghly River recently when the 254th segment, which is the last closure pre-cast segment, of the 880-metre long main .
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