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Friday, December 20, 2002
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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY INTERIORS & HOMES CHEMICALS 
Chemical cos seek easier funds, lawsTHE chemical industry currently under threat by the onslaught of cheaper imports, wants the Government's support to overcome a number of bottlenecks in the post-WTO regime. According to the President of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers ... More COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES Khare takes oath as Chief Justice THE President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of India to Mr Justice Visheshwar Nath Khare, the seniormost judge of the Supreme Court of India, at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here on Thursday. Mr Justice ... More
Bar Council against entry of foreign lawyers
IA casual labourers lose case — Regularisation claim not tenable, says court ECONOMY Plan strategy for grassroots action THE Planning Commission has a two-pronged strategy for the States in the Tenth Plan, involving encouragement of better implementation of development programmes at the field level and tackling regional imbalances, the Deputy Chairman, Plan panel, ... More EXCISE AND CUSTOMS Flak for slack adjudication — CBEC told to expedite recovery THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has urged the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) to strictly enforce the time-limit for finalising adjudication through effective monitoring and control. In its report on non-adjudication of demands ... More FOREIGN TRADE DGFT enters digital era IN the run-up to the introduction of electronic data interchange (EDI) for cutting down transaction cost to industry and trade, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), a trade facilitating agency for exporters, has become the country's ... More INFRASTRUCTURE Expert groups set up on Delhi master plan THE Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Mr Ananth Kumar, has urged the need to finalise the Master Plan of Delhi - 2021 (MPD-21) at the earliest, keeping in view the growing population and increased need for physical ... More PSU State PSUs pose a challenge: SCOPE THE Standing Conference of Public Enterprise (SCOPE), the apex professional organisation of the State-owned enterprises, is on a difficult mission of bringing corporate governance to the doorsteps of State PSUs. But how is SCOPE going to handle ... More PETROLEUM Central India Pipeline project being reworked THE country's largest common carrier pipeline project appears to be choking with cost and time overruns. The 1,760-km Central India Pipeline project will have its carrying capacity and cost "reconfigured" and may also no longer be a ... More
Panel to examine potential of recent gas finds POWER NTPC riders on captive mining — `Allow fresh bids to develop coal blocks' NATIONAL Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), responding to a suggestion by the Union Coal Secretary, has proposed that it would be keen to consider captive coal mining provided it is allowed to call for bids for the coal mining blocks already ... More
PPAs with gas-based producers opposed TEXTILES Textiles can go to war... space TEXTILES can go to war. It can go to space too. Textiles can become a roof too or that can be turned a turf to choke an oil spill as well. These are the wide varied role technical textile can play if suitable technology is made available, ... More
`Cost factor is key to textiles growth' SSI An e-bridge to the global market The International Trade Centre has put together a programme, e-trade bridge, to empower the small and medium enterprises to utilise information technology tools to exploit the potential in international markets. More
More vendor exchanges on the anvil WATER 
Cesspool of poisonHussain Sagar Lake, the venue for the water sport events of the National Games in Hyderabad, is one of the largest man-made lakes in Asia. But effluents from various industrial estates and domestic sewage empty into the Hussain Sagar, turning it ... More BEVERAGES Are soft drinks a mass consumption or luxury product? DESPITE the high visibility of the Cokes and Pepsis , are colas a luxury item or a mass consumption product? According to the soft drinks industry, 90 per cent of consumption is by the middle and lower income groups and this is the basis of ... More INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS Plea to develop Madurai airport THE Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has appealed for early completion of Madurai Airport expansion and modernisation. A delegation of the Chamber led by its President, Mr S.Rethinavelu, which met the Union Minister of Civil ... More SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Arunachal puts satellite data to extensive use REMOTE sensing data sourced from the series of Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites are finding increasing application in Arunachal Pradesh. In the preparation of administrative maps of districts, identifying hazard areas for earthquakes, ... More RESORTS & AMUSEMENT PARKS Amusement park near Mangalore The first phase of Manasa, an amusement and water park, would be inaugurated on January 1 by the Union Minister for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Mr Ananth Kumar. The amusement park, situated at Pilikula near here, is being ... More DISINVESTMENT Orissa extends bid date for sugar mills THE last date for putting in bids for the purchase of two State-owned sugar mills put up for sale by the Orissa Government has been extended to December 31 even as enquiries for their purchase are coming in. . The sale of these mills will ... More EVENTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP Clubs launched for student entrepreneurship THE Kerala Institute for Entrepreneurship Development (KIED), co-promoted by the Central and the State Governments, and the State Industries Department are joining hands in a new initiative for setting up student entrepreneurial clubs in select ... More ECONOMIC OFFENCES Panel backs move for `frauds office' THE Government's move to set up a serious frauds office (SFO) to tackle corporate frauds has been endorsed by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probing the securities scam. In its report tabled in Parliament, JPC has made out a case for ... More Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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