The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, May 31, 2007

ENVIRONMENT
Forum on preserving natural resources
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the World Bank have organised a forum on `Promoting social innovations for natural resource management' under the World Bank's India Development Marketplace (IDM) 2007 ... More

EXCISE AND CUSTOMS
Physical verification of imported goods by excise officials goes
EOUs with turnover of Rs 15 crore More

PSU
PSUs good business potential for ad firms, says Jairam Ramesh
Book on advertising pioneer R K Swamy released More

IPE workshop on June 1
Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad, will be conduct a one-day workshop on `Industry-academic interactive session for training need assessment for public enterprise executives' on June 1. The workshop will focus on ... More

PETROLEUM
Refiners process 15% more crude in April
Refiners such as IndianOil and Bharat Petroleum processed 15.1 per cent more crude in April from a year earlier. This was because of addition of capacity and units running at higher rates to gain from rising global refining margins. Refiners ... More

PHARMACEUTICALS
Panel report on data exclusivity for drugs today
The committee looking into issues of `data exclusivity' for pharmaceuticals is likely to submit its report on Thursday. According to sources in the Industry and Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, the Chairperson, Ms Satwant Reddy, who ... More

STEEL
Cold rolled steel makers seek cut in domestic prices
Want cut in Customs duty, imposition of export levy More

TAXATION
Telecom operators urge Centre to replace all taxes with 6% single levy
Telecom operators have urged the Department of Telecom to bring down all levies imposed by the Central Government on the operators to six per cent of their annual revenues. In a meeting with the Department of Telecom, both GSM and CDMA ... More

SSI
IBA: Work in progress for streamlining SME rating
`Banks must consolidate to take on foreign counterparts' More

WATER
Centre clears Rs 830-cr Krishna water project
The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy, today said that the Centre had cleared the Rs 830-crore phase II Krishna Drinking Water Supply Project. The project seeks to augment water supply to Hyderabad Urban agglomeration by 90 million ... More

RADIO/TV
TAM Media launches Radio Audience Measurement
"The RAM service is all set to accelerate the radio industry's growth via measurement." More

HCV/LCV/TRACTORS
Ashok Leyland ties up with TVS & Sons
Ashok Leyland has announced its entry into the pre-owned commercial vehicles market with Altrux in Kerala here on Wednesday. Mr V.M. Hombali, Special Director, Customer Support Group, said at a press meet here on Wednesday, that in Kerala ... More

GEMS & JEWELLERY
Statewide bandh
Jewellery shops remained closed in Mumbai on Wednesday to protest against the rise in attacks on jewellers in Maharashtra.

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS
Dr Trehan walks out of Escorts Heart, joins Apollo
No management discussion yet on buying out his 10% stake More

Coimbatore health care sector facing staff shortage
Institutions, Bharathiar University join to offer new courses from this year More

READYMADE GARMENTS
New apparel training centre opening today
Tamil Nadu will have its third apparel training and design centre (ATDC) sponsored by the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). The new ATDC being located at Nallampalli in the backward Dharmapuri district will be run with the support of ... More

WATCHES & ACCESSORIES
`Consumers here are ready for our brand, and luxury'
Valerie Lachaux and Shantanu Mukerji of Dior Watches chat with BrandLine More

`India ready for Dior'
Valerie Lachaux, CEO, Dior Watches, and Shantanu Mukerji, Regional Manager (South Asia), Dior Watches, in conversation with BrandLine. The LVMH Group has quite a number of other luxury watch brands, such as Tag Heuer. Do you ... More

GENDER
StanChart woos women with special products
Standard Chartered Bank has launched a special savings account - christened aaSaan - only for customers of the branch. The latter, incidentally, has a large neighbourhood to serve, one that has a good number of women clients. The account ... More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS
CITU meet
VETERAN CPI(M) LEADER, Mr Jyoti Basu, flanked by the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, and the All-India CITU President, Mr M.K. Pandhe, at the CITU rally at Salt Lake in Kolkata on Wednesday. ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Wheat import tender scrapped
Prices quoted `too high'; fresh tender may be floated in July More

Global wheat prices may come under pressure on STC move
Domestic market seen stable; boost to crops from rains More

Import of sensitive items up 10.51%
The total imports of sensitive items, being monitored by the Commerce Ministry, showed an increase of 10.51 per cent in 2006-07. The imports of such sensitive items were worth Rs 18,555 during the year, against Rs 16,789 crore during the ... More