The Hindu Business Line : Friday, May 01, 2009

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

HUMAN RESOURCES: Ready to work
Youngsters from disadvantaged sections of society are imparted employable skills to help them enter the organised sector.. A bunch of adolescent boys and girls dressed in their Sunday best stand tentatively outside Haldirams, one of ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Lower basmati prices posing risk to lending banks
Rs 2,000-cr outstanding against warehouse receipts exposure. New Delhi, April 30 Abnormal price movements have rendered financing of farm produce against warehouse receipts (WR) a risky proposition. The best example of this is basmati rice, in ...

GENDER: Where teens venture
Syrian girls bubble with ideas and enthusiasm as they are encouraged to become entrepreneurs.. A math whiz since childhood, it seemed a foregone conclusion that Rasha Al Dabbas, 15, would take up a career in engineering or medicine. So when she ...

ECONOMY: Devoured beaches
Unregulated sand-mining and rising sea-levels are rapidly corroding the Indian coastline, destroying homes and snatching livelihoods.. While the rest of the world gets all worked up to tackle global warming and a rising sea-level, India ...

PETROLEUM: Reliance Gas seeks nod to levy transportation charges
Ferrying gas from Reliance Ind Krishna Godavari D6 Block. New Delhi, April 30 Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd (RGTIL) has approached the competent authorities to seek a nod for the transportation tariff to be levied by it for ...

ENVIRONMENT: Kerala Minister moots ‘Tree Authority’
The Forests Minister, Mr Benoy Viswom, has suggested that a ‘Tree Authority’ be set up to mull the desirability of cutting down trees on road sides prior to taking up developmental ...

RADIO/TV: Prime time matches gain popularity
With prime time matches gaining popularity, the second match on April 29 (Day 12) between Mumbai Indians and Kings X1 Punjab led to a TVR of 4.2 compared with the first match between Knight Riders and Royal Challengers (TVR of 2.7). In an ...

EDUCATION: CAT to go online from this year
New Delhi, April 30 It is time to bell the CAT — and it can be done ...

TAXATION: TAAI moves HC on service tax
Hyderabad, April 30 The Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) has moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court, appealing for directions to the airlines and Government to make the service tax component part of ...

ECONOMY: US recovery still key
At its Wednesday meeting, it left interest rates unchanged in the 0-0.25 per cent range. It was an obvious decision. The time is far from ripe to even contemplate hardening ...

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY: German cos scout for offshore renewable energy projects here
Chennai, April 30 E.ON Energy Ltd and Baard Energy from Niedersachsen State in Germany are exploring possibilities to set up offshore renewable energy projects in India, the Minister for Economics, Labour and Transport of Niedersachsen, ...

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS: Cryobanks offers finance option for cord blood banking
Hyderabad, April 30 Cryobanks International India, which offers umbilical cord blood stem cell banking, has introduced finance option for parents who want to preserve umbilical ...

EDUCATION: ASB holds convocation
Thiruvananthapuram, April 30 Young people should look at turning adverse circumstances such as the current global economic downturn into an opportunity, said the State Finance Minister, Dr T. M. Thomas ...

HEALTH: Swine flu threat
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EVENTS: Brazil to host global pepper conference
Kochi, April 30 The 37th session of the International Pepper Community (IPC) will be hosted by Brazil early December in Belem in the Para State, according to the Brazil Pepper Trade Board ...

HEALTH: Swine flu: NRI’s samples sent for examination
Hyderabad, April 30 With reports of a swine flu case creating panic, the Andhra Pradesh Government has sent the samples of a 27-year-old NRI from Texas to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Delhi ...

ACCOUNTANCY: ICWAI signs pact with US institute
New Delhi, April 30 The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Institute of Management Accountants ...

EDUCATION: Sridharan Mani, CEO & Director, AMI India; Vel Tech Dr. RR & Dr. SR Technical University
Successful leaders have the ability to convince their followers to undertake revolutionary change even if it involves brutality, according to Mr Sridharan Mani, CEO & Director, American Megatrends India Private Ltd ...

EDUCATION: B. Venkatachalam, Managing Director, Hexagon Capital Markets Ltd; Indian Academy School of Management Studies, Bangalore
Bangalore, April 30 The present generation of students are aware of how a stock market works and a few have invested in shares too. This was evident at the BL Club guest lecture organised for the management students of the Indian Academy here ...

EVENTS: Technology Day on May 11
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