The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Lanka wants SSIs to be included in FTA
Small industries from Sri Lanka want to develop a structure so as to best utilise the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India. To begin, they want small-scale industries (SSI) to be accepted under the ambit of the FTA. Sri Lanka is ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
APSFC plans schemes for entrepreneurs
The Andhra Pradesh State Financial Corporation (APSFC) is organising a series of interactive programmes to benefit entrepreneurs in the State, beginning from Hyderabad on June 14. The top level management of the Corporation would be available ... More

Italian group mulls textile plant in AP
Italian diversified group Camozzi Holding Spa, is planning to set up a Rs 600-700 crore textile plant in the Warangal district. A delegation headed by Mr Ettore Camozzi, Board member of Camozzi Holdings Spa, Italy called on the State Chief ... More

HMA defers decision on management awards
That the new-economy companies have changed the way managers worked and led is perhaps no news. However, while managers are mending their ways trying to achieve the new benchmarks, management associations seem to grapple with the need to set new ... More

Fan makers get orders from Colombo, Dubai
Fan makers from Hyderabad made a good impact and received export orders from both Dubai and Colombo, following participation in `buyer-seller' meets and business visits recently. While Colombo fetched orders worth Rs 2.5 crore, Dubai offered an ... More

HSBC Data Pro to expand
HSBC Data Processing, part of the HSBC Banking group, which currently employs about 10,000 employees across five delivery centres in the country and six in the region, is poised to add about 2,500 more. According to a statement ... More

MNJI & RCC to be developed
The MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre (MNJI & RCC) will be developed into a Centre of Excellence in cancer care during the Eleventh Plan period. The hospital will have three more Linear Accelerators - CT ... More

Jindal Aluminium allays fears of bauxite pollution
4,000 acres to be acquired near Sabbavaram More

KERALA
Pampa Action Plan hits roadblock
Clubbing of Sabarimala projects with PAP puts hurdles in river cleansing work More

Condor group plans mall and multiplex
The Dubai-based Condor group, engaged in construction contracting in West Asia, has finalised plans for five major projects in Thiruvananthapuram with an outlay of around Rs 200 crore. The centrepiece would be a modern shopping complex in the ... More

CPT warns against extortion
The Cochin Port Trust Chairman, Mr N. Ramachandran, has reiterated that strict action would be taken against those who indulge in illegal collection of money from container trailers plying in and around Willingdon Island. His reaction comes in ... More

Idea launches more showrooms
Idea Mobile Communications Ltd has launched three more `Idea n U' showrooms in Punnapra in Alapuzha, Kadakkal in Kollam and Cherupuzha in Kannur districts. The opening of new showrooms is over and above the existing 133 spread ... More

KARNATAKA
Karnataka Bank opens 396th branch
Karnataka Bank Ltd opened its 396th branch at Vazira Naka, Borivali (West), in Mumbai recently. A bank release said here on Tuesday that local MLA, Mr Gopal C. Shetty, inaugurated the new branch, along with the Managing ... More

Seminar on exports from coastal Karnataka
The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), in association with the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), will organise a seminar on `Exports from coastal Karnataka: Vision 2010' in Mangalore on June 16. A press release by ... More

Reliance, Intel tie-up to offer Net service
Programme to enable connectivity to 11 cities, towns More

OTHER STATES
Ratnagiri project running short of naphtha
Stocks likely to last only for a month More

Delhi Govt waives VAT on petrol, diesel price hike
Government will forgo Rs 102-crore revenue More

Gujarat employs contractors to complete dam canal
The Gujarat Government has announced that it has engaged 10 `A' class contractors to complete the remaining 101 km of the 458-km-long main canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) to take the Narmada waters to neighbouring ... More

Angel Broking expands operations in Gujarat
Angel Broking today announced plans to expand its operations in Gujarat by opening offices in nine towns and cities of the State. Keeping in view the growing demands of investors in the region, the company will open nine branches in Anand, ... More

Truckers strike: No impact on consumables in Delhi
The transporters strike did not affect the movement of daily use items such as fruits and vegetables, milk, water, poultry and meat products here. Out of purview This was because the movement of daily use items ... More