INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Housing Development bags Mumbai airport slum rehab project
Over 2.5 million sq ft of built up area needed to resettle about 80,000 slum households
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COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES
HC orders detention of Indonesian vessel
Kochi, Oct 16 The Kerala High Court on Tuesday ordered the arrest and detention of a cargo vessel owned by an Indonesian company when it enters the Indian territorial waters. The court passed the order on a petition moved by the ...
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ECONOMY
Oil price a global economy risk
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ENVIRONMENT
‘Create right sops for use of low-carbon technologies’
New Delhi, Oct. 16 Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, President, Asian Development Bank (ADB), has underlined the need for policy makers in Asia to create the right incentives for development and use of low-carbon technologies, address market failures and ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
Indo-Mauritius working group set up
New Delhi, Oct. 15 A joint working group comprising officials of both India and Mauritius has been formally set up recently to explore areas of cooperation in shipping and road transportation. The Union Minister of Shipping, Road ...
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HEALTH
Campaign for fortified foods
Shah Rukh new brand ambassador
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PSU
Electronic Corp’s CMD gets award
The Chairman and Managing Director of the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), Mr K.S. Rajasekhara Rao, has been conferred the ‘Indira Gandhi Memorial National Award-Best Chief Executive Gold Award-2007’.The Andhra ...
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PETROLEUM
Crude oil prices continue to rule high, pushing $88
Bail-out package for oil companies ‘may prove inadequate’
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POWER
CESC power projects to attain financial closure soon
600-MW Bengal and 1000-MW Jharkhand projects
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AP seeks more power from Central pool
Hyderabad, Oct. 16 With the demand-supply mismatch going up in the power sector due to increasing usage, especially in the winter months, the Andhra Pradesh Government has sought the Central Government support in allocating additional power ...
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RADIO/TV
Clear FDI norms sought for downlinking TV channels
MGM, Bloomberg seeking FIPB nod to broadcast channels
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EDUCATION
ICICI Group teams up with Manipal Education
To train entry-level managers, probationary officers
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MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS
Apollo Tyres plans hospital in Kalamassery
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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Vijay Shanthi Builders looking at mass market segment
Plans apartments in the Rs 25-45 lakh range
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
A space flight for $200,000
VIRGIN ADVENTURE
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MINING & QUARRYING
‘Nigeria ready to partner India in mining’
Chennai, Oct.16 Nigeria has agreed to allow mining of value-added minerals and their export to India. The Nigerian Government has also agreed to offer all possible concessions for Indian companies to take up mining activity there.This ...
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MINERALS
Mineral stocks’ prices go through the roof
Demand far exceeds the supply, say analysts
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OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS
‘M&A activity declines in Q2’
New Delhi, Oct 16 The global slowdown and absence of big ticket overseas acquisitions by India Inc have led to a sharp decline in the merger and acquisition activities by domestic firms in the international market during the second quarter ...
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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS
SEBI plans curbs on FII participatory notes
Bid to stem unbridled inflows into the stock market
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
CSA cautions against imported packaged foods
The Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), a city-based NGO working in non-pesticide management agriculture, has cautioned that the imported packaged foods from retail stores could be made of GM (genetically modified) ...
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Social audit at Walayar planned
The Government is set to conduct a social audit as part of the second phase of the campaign to make Walayar check-post in Palakkad district free of corruption.The State had launched the campaign some time back. Though corruption can be ...
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