INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
EMPLOYMENT
US March job growth at four-year high
IN a report that the White House has been very quick to take credit for, the Labour Department has said that employment rose in March at the fastest pace in four years as hiring of workers shot up in a wide range of industries. The Labour ...
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ECONOMY
Why businessmen are leaving Bihar
EVEN as Rashtriya Janata Dal Chief Laloo Prasad Yadav was filing his nomination papers on Friday from the Chapra constituency, barely 90 minutes drive from Patna, the State's capital was reverberating with shock waves. Yet another kidnapping had ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
`Investment key to expand Indo-Japan trade ties'
MR Kenji Shimizu, Consul General of Japan in Kolkata, said here that his country's comparatively poor trade performance with India may be partly attributed to the bad shape of the Japanese economy and partly to India's commodity-oriented export ...
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HEALTH
Shanta Biotechnics gets TDB funding for 4-in-1 combo vaccine
SHANTA Biotechnics' efforts to develop a four-in-one combo vaccine at competitive prices have got a further boost with the Technology Development Board (TDB) clearing Rs 9-crore funding for its commercialisation phase. The combo vaccine will ...
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TAXATION
Service tax not applicable to TV serial producers
THE Finance Ministry has now clarified that service tax is not leviable on television serial producers for selling TV serials to the channels. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has, however, held that payments made for services ...
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SSI
`Changes in policy, mindset needed to make SMEs vibrant'
THE Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has asked all the stakeholders in the economy to join hands to make small and medium enterprises (SMEs) globally competitive. Addressing the CII's (AP) silver jubilee annual day, Mr K.K.M. Kutty, ...
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EDUCATION
IIMA not to implement fee cut for new batch
THE Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), will not be implementing the fee cut for the new batch of Post-Graduate Programme students, which would begin the first semester on June 26. This was stated by Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, ...
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Balance goals with vision, IIM-Calcutta students told
THE Chairman of Board of Governors of IIM-C, Mr Y.C. Deveshwar, applauded the faculty of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, who according him, sculpted the future managers of India, and still earned less than their student-managers. Amid ...
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`Final touches to IIM-C resolution on fee cut on'
THE Chairman of Board of Governors of IIM-Calcutta, Mr Y.C. Deveshwar, said here that he was giving final touches to a resolution which would address the contentious issue of fee reduction sought by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry. ...
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IPR
`Herbal, ayurvedic knowledge must be patented'
"OUR indigenous knowledge needs to be quickly patented so that it helps the ayurvedic and herbal industry grow in the globalised world," said Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swami, Sankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, highlighting the issue of patents ...
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EVENTS
`PR agencies must adopt clear professional practices'
THE role of public relations (PR) agencies has assumed greater importance in the globalised economic environment where professionalism is a critical factor in acquitting their role. PR professionals have to rise beyond the limited horizons of ...
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