WEB EXTRAS
CLIMATE & WEATHER
States buying high-cost power to tide over summer crisis
With the possibility of a power crisis looming large this summer, States are resorting to desperate measures to buy electricity well in advance to tide over the shortages, mostly at exorbitant prices of upwards of Rs 7 per unit during the peak ...
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EXCISE AND CUSTOMS
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 ...
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PETROLEUM
HPCL Visakha refinery achieves record throughput of 9.2 mt
The Visakha refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has set a new record by achieving throughput of 9.2 million tonnes during 2006-07. According to a press release issued by the company, against the installed capacity of 7.5 ...
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MANAGEMENT
Your career is not a sprint but a marathon
It is very easy to say that the circumstances were bad and, hence, you couldn't succeed, but it is your enthusiasm, energy and courage that will make you successful.
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FIXED DEPOSITS
Anand bank depositors may get paid in 4 months
Even though the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had cancelled its banking licence, the depositors of Anand Urban Cooperative Bank Ltd need not worry as the bank would be on its feet again as soon as it recovers loan dues and settles court cases ...
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
`Aviva Life open to picking up equity stake in Indian banks'
For cementing its Bancassurance arrangements, says Mr Patterson
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ROADWAYS
Tax liability on freight charges
Kindly clarify whether exemption limit of service tax payable as per Notification No. 6/2005 dated March 1, 2005, is available to a tiny industrial factory (partnership) registered under the Factories Act and a tiny industrial factory owned by ...
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TOURISM
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.
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