The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 05, 2009

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

FOREIGN TRADE: Border trade with China begins at Nathula
Low-key participation by Indian traders. Gangtok, April 4 For the fourth consecutive year, Nathula border trade with China started on Monday with a low-key participation of Indian ...

SSI: Canara Bank unveils SME Sulabh
Canara Bank has launched ‘SME Sulabh’ a new business model for increasing credit flow to the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector. SME Sulabh centralised processing centres are established initially at seven places ...

EXCISE AND CUSTOMS: e-Payment solution for excise
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBDT) asked traders to take to the e-payment solution launched by it. In order to expand the facility to more areas the board was in the process of connecting all its offices through WAN. Addressing ...

HEALTH: Anti-tobacco campaigners cry foul over dilution of health warnings
Violation of Election Commission’s code of conduct alleged. Mumbai, May 4 The smoke just doesn’t seem to clear over the pictorial health warnings to be carried on tobacco products from May 31. In a weekend development, the Centre ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: Transaction fee row: NCDEX moves SC
Mumbai, May 4 The National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX) moved the Supreme Court on Monday against the market regulator Forward Markets Commission (FMC) for rejecting its proposal to reduce the ...

EDUCATION: BAE plays host to students from Bangalore
Twenty pupils from three Bangalore schools are on a two-week visit to East Yorkshire, experiencing the British school life, the culture, science and engineering there as part of the UK India Education and Research Initiative or UKIERI. Their ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: DLF exits from Bidadi Satellite Township Project
Bangalore, May 4 Real estate developer DLF Ltd has exited from the Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (BMRDA) 9,300-acre Bidadi Satellite Township Project near ...

CEMENT: Cement demand slows down in April
Mumbai, May 4 Cement demand seems to have tapered off in April, if the production and dispatch figures of major cement manufacturers are anything to ...

CEMENT: Delhi cement prices impacted by imports from Pak
Mumbai, May 4 Cement prices in Delhi seem to have been impacted by the large scale imports ...

WATER: Indiscriminate sand mining creates water shortage in Kerala
Kochi, May 4 Drinking water shortage in several parts of Kerala, especially in the high and midland areas of many districts, has become so acute that the inhabitants have to depend on water supply by private operators for whom it has turned ...

ECONOMY: Scripting a revival
Hope springs eternal in the human breast and never more so than when troubles pile up alarmingly. For India, the three months to December 2008 were distressing as almost every indicator reflected a downturn in varying degrees. Yet, there have ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: TN Govt alone can deal with sandalwood trees: HC
Chennai, May 4 Nobody had any right to trade in sandalwood trees, the Madras High Court has held, adding that the TN Government was empowered to deal with ...

EDUCATION: How ‘statistical package’ helps research
Chennai, May 4 There are three important steps to be followed in the research process. First, the researcher should identify the problem which could either be related to a social issue or to an ...