The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 02, 2007

OVERSEAS BORROWINGS
Japan plans extending loans twice a year
Japan may take up official development assistance (ODA) commitments to India twice in a financial year as against the prevailing practice of annually Exchanging Notes for such commitments. "While the quantum of ODA would not increase or change, ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES
When copyright is wronged
Copyright infringement is dealt with extremely seriously under the Copyright Act, 1957, which provides not only for civil remedies but also criminal remedies. More

ECONOMY
AP steps to cut deficits pay off
Efforts by the Andhra Pradesh Government to reduce fiscal and revenue deficits have proved to be windfall, with the provisional Central estimates hinting at a sanction of Rs 2,000 crore as incentive. Announcing this here on Saturday, Mr K. ... More

India's growth sustainable, says expert
India's current economic growth appears to be sustainable, according to Prof Kaushik Basu of Cornell University in the US. Delivering the seventh Joan Robinson Memorial Lecture organised by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), he said that ... More

Meet on Kerala economy
The second international conference on `Kerala in the Global Economy' will be held at Technopark Thiruvananthapuram on April 2 and April 3. Organised by the Asian School of Business, Stanford Centre for International Development ... More

ENVIRONMENT
Tidco calls bids for solid waste management
The Chennai Corporation has decided to extend the privatisation of municipal solid waste management to more areas in the city. According to the international bids called for by the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, the nodal agency ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Allow duty-free border trade in Nathu La: Study
Even as India is wrestling with duty-free goods under free trade area from different countries with which it has forged free trade agreement (FTA), an official study makes a case for locally produced goods in Sikkim and Tibet Autonomous Region ... More

C'wealth meet brings biz worth $5.8 m
The sixth Commonwealth India Small Business Competitiveness Development Programme (CISBCDP) held in Kochi, Alappuzha and Kalady during March-end culminated in various trade proposals and promises worth $5.8 million, according to Kalady Rice ... More

HEALTH
A healthy trend
Kerala, which is currently going through a boom in private medical services, must chase technological sophistication and infrastructure if it wishes to maintain its market niche in medical tourism. More

HOTELS
Tidel Park gets Planet Yumm food court
16 more outlets over the next six months on anvil More

PSU
Kerala to hand over Keltec to DRDO
The Defence Minister, Mr A.K. Antony, who held discussions with Keltec officials recently, said the proposal was under consideration of the Ministry. More

CAG faults accounting practices of many PSUs based in AP
Ten out of 18 non-working companies were under liquidation and the accounts of the remaining eight defunct or under closure companies were in arrears for periods ranging from three to 22 years. More

PETROLEUM
Gains for gold, crude on geo-political fears
Further consolidation likely in yellow metal More

PHARMACEUTICALS
Ekta Incubation Centre gets lab for pathogen research
The first Technology Business Incubator (TBI) in the East and North-East will soon have a modern P-3 laboratory where research in pathogens — which have to do with applications in the pharmaceuticals industry — would be undertaken. ... More

TAXATION
Direct tax collections up 40%
The Centre's net direct tax collections touched Rs 2,16,000 crore as on March 26 this fiscal, recording a 39.5 per cent increase over the collections in the corresponding period of the previous year. The Government had pegged ... More

TEXTILES
Spinning sector in grip of liquidity crunch
Mills saddled with stock accumulation of 6 crore kg of yarn More

SSI
CII survey on micro, SMEs
Thirty nine per cent respondents to a survey on the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) expect to graduate from small-sized industry to medium-sized industry by 2010. According to the CII survey on policy impact and future scenario for ... More

SME sector unimpressed by Govt package
15% capital subsidy scheme lapses More

EDUCATION
Mumbai University plans BSE listing
Rs 2-lakh set aside to study feasibility More

IIT to be set up at Kandi in Medak
The proposed IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) will be set up in Kandi in Medak district, with the high-powered committee finding it more suitable than Basara (Adilabad) and Lakdaram village (Medak). The Andhra Pradesh Government set up the ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
CII enlisting support for underprivileged
Draws up code of conduct for companies More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Empowering rural India
Indian corporates that recruit young people from rural areas are helping themselves and the rural economy More

EVENTS
Panchayati Raj call
COMPREHENSIVE MEET: The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, with panchayat members at the inauguration of two-day national conference on `Two decades of new Panchayathi Raj in Karnataka: Issues, Options and Lessons' at Jnana ... More

Agenda for the week

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AP prepares Business Frame of enterprises
Perhaps for the first time in the country, the Andhra Pradesh Government has conducted a micro-level `Business Frame' of all the business enterprises with 10 or more employees. "The list of enterprises spread across the State will be of great ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Validity of duty pass book scheme extended again
The Centre has extended the validity of the duty entitlement passbook (DEPB) scheme till March 31, 2008. The DEPB scheme was to lapse on Saturday. This is the second extension of the scheme, which serves about 30 per cent of the country's ... More

Indian drugs find new markets
`Exports to Africa, CIS markets growing in value terms' More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Japanese expert favours `leaders in manufacturing'
He plans to launch a national programme called `Visionary Leaders in Manufacturing' in the Indo-Japan Friendship Year (2007) More