The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 01, 2008

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TAMIL NADU: 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 ...

OTHER STATES: 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 ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: ‘Vizag port trust, dock labour board merger likely soon’
Draft memo of settlement approved and sent to Ministry for clearance. The proposed merger of the Visakhapatnam Dock Labour Board and the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), pending for more than 15 years, is likely to be achieved soon, according ...

GUJARAT: Shirdi Industries to launch designer furniture by fiscal end
Processing centres being set up at seven cities. Ahmedabad, Aug. 29 Shirdi Industries Ltd, makers of input material for the furniture industry, will invest Rs 150 crore to set up processing centres in seven cities of India from where it would ...

WEST BENGAL: United Bank bags national award

ANDHRA PRADESH: 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. ...

MAHARASHTRA: 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 ...

TAMIL NADU: Chennai marathon

ANDHRA PRADESH: Queue for IT jobs

KERALA: 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. ...

KERALA: Agri Dept projects to come under social audit
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 31 All development projects being implemented by the Kerala Agriculture Department will be brought under social ...

OTHER STATES: 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 ...

TAMIL NADU: Avalon putting up new facility
Chennai, Aug. 31 Avalon Technologies, part of the US-based Sienna Group, a global electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company, is expanding its capacity with a new facility at the Madras Export Processing Zone. ...

OTHER STATES: ‘Market adaptability is the key’
New Delhi, Aug. 31 Adapting to the markets while innovating was the mantra shared by Mr Apurv Nagpal, Marketing Director, Sab Miller (India), citing the transformation the company did in the flavour of the its beer brand to be accepted by ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Yona Smelters sets up unit at Vizag
Visakhapatnam, Aug. 31 A ferro-manganese and silico-manganese factory, set up by Yona Smelters Pvt Ltd at Bobbili in Vizianagaram district, was inaugurated by Mr P.K. Bishnoi, Chairman and Managing Director of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, on ...

TAMIL NADU: 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 ...

KERALA: Kerala treasuries come under microscope
Last week Kerala’s Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac launched the Treasury Social Audit Programme in Thiruvananthapuram, making the State the first in the country to place an entire government department – the Kerala Treasury ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: 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 ...

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