The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 01, 2008

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

MINERALS: Govt steps up efforts to boost uranium mining
Uranium Corpn asked to deepen existing mines, roll out new ones. New Delhi, Aug. 31 Even with the prospect of uranium imports on the horizon, the Centre is simultaneously working to step up its domestic uranium mining effort as a hedge ...

EDUCATION: Where are the gurus?
As the number of B-schools in India grows, good management teachers seem to be in short supply. Over 1,500 All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)-approved private management institutions, six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) ...

ECONOMY: J&K: Call for firmness and imagination
In June this year, I spent a week visiting “Paradise on Earth,” the Valley of Kashmir with my wife and grandchildren. We were enthralled by the serenity of Srinagar, the Shankaracharya Temple, the exhilaration of climbing to 13,000 ...

EDUCATION: No getting away from IT
Consolidated Cybernetics says its smart campus initiative taps the mobile to keep parents in the know.. Remember those heady college days when one tried to keep both parents and teachers in the dark…And proxy attendance was something ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: TN prefers investments spread across the State
Sops being offered to get industries into the southern parts. The Tamil Nadu Government is focussed on attracting investments across the State, particularly in the southern districts and especially in areas where there have not been major ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: PM looks to encourage skill development programmes
Writes to CMs on public education infrastructure. New Delhi, Aug. 31 With a view to scale-up skill development programmes in the country, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has written to all the chief ministers on Saturday to consider ...

GOLD & SILVER: Gold to consolidate, rise higher
Gold futures ended marginally lower. As mentioned earlier, this is euro’s weakness and not dollar’s strength and we are still not convinced that the US dollar can stage a meaningful rebound. Gold should be holding up. Inflation ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Export growth to maintain high momentum in Apr-July
New Delhi, Aug 31 The country’s exports during the first four months of the current fiscal (April to July) are likely to have cranked up at a faster pace of above 35 per cent in rupee terms and above 25 per cent in dollar terms when the ...

EDUCATION: IIIT-H awards its first doctorate
Hyderabad, Aug. 31 The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) held its seventh convocation on Sunday and it was a memorable one for the 10-year old institute with the award of the first Ph.D. ...

EDUCATION: Rs 1-cr endowment for IIT Bombay
Pune, Aug 31 Mr Pramod Chaudhari, Chairman, Praj Industries, and his wife Parimal have made an endowment of Rs 1crore towards IIT Bombay to institute the Pramod Chaudhari Chair Professorship for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and for ...

TOURISM: ‘Involve pvt sector to lure cruise tourists’
New Delhi, Aug 31 To achieve the government target of attracting six lakh cruise tourists by 2010, India needs to improve the poor infrastructure at ports, high cost of infrastructure development and low returns on investment in the cruise ...

ECONOMY: Agriculture, a growth engine
There are a few States in India where the procurement of agricultural products at minimum support price (MSP) is undertaken even when the market prices are higher than the MSP, while at the same time there are States where the farmers are not ...

TOURISM: Expo planned at Ocean Race village
Kochi, Aug. 31 A review meeting of Volvo Ocean Race India Stopover has decided to set up an exhibition pavilion at the race village to house about 250 prime exhibitors from different parts of India. ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: Sikkim Govt mulls new verification law
Gangtok, Aug 31 The Sikkim Government has proposed the enactment of a law for the compulsory verification of all tenants, domestic and professional helps in ...

PEOPLE: Placid Rodriguez passes away
Chennai, Aug. 31 Dr Placid Rodriguez, the former director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, passed away this morning. He was ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Dedicated Freight Corridor: Carrying benefits to the hinterland
Mumbai enjoys the distinction of perhaps the only city in the world which has grown along a Railway system — in this case, not one but two of them! The GIP (Great Indian Peninsula) Railway and the BB&CI (Bombay Baroda and Central ...

EDUCATION: Osmania Graduates platinum day
The Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Osmania Graduates’ Association (OGA) was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Urban Development, Mr S. Jaipal Reddy and Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr K. Jana Reddy, here on Sunday. Speaking on ...