INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
CLIMATE & WEATHER
Warm up to this issue
Sites to help you understand the gravity of global warming.
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NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY
Plea to make blending of ethanol with petrol mandatory
Madurai, Oct. 28 The Sattur Chamber of Commerce and Industries has made an appeal for mandatory blending of ethanol with petrol.The chamber Secretary, Mr P.T.K.A. Balasubramanian, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan ...
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ECONOMY
Plan panel meet to emphasise on faster, inclusive growth
November 8 meeting will clear the final document of the 11th Plan
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EXCISE AND CUSTOMS
Coir sector opposes cess on turnover
Kochi, Oct. 28 The Indian Coir Association has expressed concern over the move of the Kerala Government to impose one per cent cess on the turnover of all engaged in the business of coir in the State. Addressing the 51st annual general ...
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FERTILISERS
Fears of DAP shortage unfounded: Govt
‘Pvt players spreading panic’
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HEALTH
Beedi workers oppose ‘pictorial warning’
Hyderabad, Oct. 28 A group of farmers, beedi workers and pan shop owners have strongly opposed the move by the Union Health Ministry to make it mandatory for manufacturers to print pictorial warnings on tobacco products.Addressing a ...
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INFRASTRUCTURE
‘Infrastructure holds key to double-digit growth’
Experts seek progress in farm sector, inclusive growth
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PETROLEUM
Dutch gas major plans hi-drive LPG stations
Hyderabad, Oct. 28 Dutch gas major SHV Energy, through its arm Super Gas, plans to set up 12 hi-drive auto LPG gas dispensing retail outlets in the country by the year-end.These stations would be set up in the South and North through ...
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PHARMACEUTICALS
Patients’ patience
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TEXTILES
Textile, apparel sourcing set to rise 12%: CII-E&Y report
Global trade to grow to $700 b by 2010
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SSI
Tailored for an SME fit
Hardware vendors are targeting small and medium enterprises with products to suit their needs.
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EDUCATION
Testing innovation, engg skills
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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
Companies seek foreign architects for standout designs
BUILDING TRENDS
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High-rise city
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With real estate booming, foreign architects in demand
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READYMADE GARMENTS
Ocean India starts work on Brandix apparel park unit
Likely to go on stream in Q2 of next fiscal
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MINING & QUARRYING
Seminar on captive mines
Visakhapatnam, Oct. 28 The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is at a great disadvantage as it does not have captive iron ore mines and the repeated pleas of the company have gone in vain till now, and until the Union Government concedes the demand, ...
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MINERALS
SAIL ramps up iron ore production
The Raw Materials Division of SAIL has ramped up iron ore production to meet the enhanced requirement of SAIL’s steel plants in the Eastern sector of the country. Iron ore lump production touched 3.1 million tonne, notching a growth of 10.6 ...
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GENDER
Wanted, women directors
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
US Treasury Secretary Paulson pats Buddhadeb’s investment pitch
Kolkata, Oct. 28 The US Treasury Secretary, Mr Henry M. Paulson, Jr, has praised the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, for the latter’s efforts to encourage big ticket investments in West Bengal. He has also said ...
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Spandana Sphoorty forays into tractor, dairy finance
Hyderabad, Oct. 28 Spandana Sphoorty Innovative Financial Services Ltd has forayed into tractor and dairy finance and is planning to invest significantly in these sectors. “The micro-finance market in Andhra Pradesh in general, ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
Labouring overseas again
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EVENTS
Global meet on aluminium
Hyderabad, Oct. 28 A global meet of experts, industry and stake holders from the aluminium sector will be held in Hyderabad during November 21-23. INCAL 2007 will provide a forum for Indian and foreign industry experts to deliberate on ...
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Meet on retailing
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‘Good business will only survive because of good values’
Chennai, Oct. 28 You are the most precious resource, and you have to direct yourself in the current corporate environment where continental shifts are taking place in short periods of time, calling for innovative approaches, rapid assimilation ...
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Hindustan Unilever to double strength of Shakti entrepreneurs
Hyderabad, Oct. 28 Hindustan Unilever Ltd is planning to double the strength of its rural women entrepreneurship promotion programme — Shakti — in India over next two years, according to Mr Douglas Baillie, Chief Executive Officer, ...
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TOURISM
Quaint charm
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Of collusion and cartelisation
From pastas to colas, prices are hardly the result of market forces.
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