The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 12, 2008

GOVERNMENT

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Sweden easing immigration rules to allow more workers
Longer stay on temporary work permit likely. Mumbai, Nov. 11 Indian labourers aspiring for a foreign job now have a better chance to land one in ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: LTC gives a boost to tourism in North-East
Central Govt employees entitled to free air travel to N-E states. Kolkata, Nov. 11 The tourism industry in the North Eastern States of India and Darjeeling has received a much needed boost from the special Leave Travel Concession (LTC) package ...

POLITICS: ‘Nano to cost Rs 30,000 cr to Gujarat exchequer’
The Rs 2,200-crore Nano project in Gujarat, including Rs 700 crore worth of shifting cost from Singur to Sanand, could cost the State exchequer at least Rs 30,000 crore in the long run, the State Congress Party claimed here ...

POLICY: ‘Sops for airlines to protect jobs’
On board PM’s Special Aircraft, Nov. 11 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has defended the move to give concessions to cash-strapped private airlines saying the bailout was not to help the rich but to save ...

POLICY: PMO rejects Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, NMDC merger proposal
Hyderabad, Nov. 11 The proposed merger of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has been rejected by the Prime Minister’s ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Will Obama be cool towards India?
Far more than usually imagined, personal affinities and animosities play an important role in relations between nations. The classic example was, of course, the closeness between Britain's war-time Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and the ...

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