INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
EMPLOYMENT
Opportunities for management grads
Business management graduates on Sunday have a whole lot of new job and career opportunities in sunrise sectors such as consulting, investment banking, telecom, insurance, market research, retail, international business etc. ...
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CLIMATE & WEATHER
Arabian Sea too joins party as monsoon re-advances
`The present `low' in Bay is predicted to deepen'
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SOCIAL SECURITY
Tapping unorganised sector for micro-investments
Post-retirement planning for underprivileged is need of hour
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Bihar milkmen tie up with UTI MF
To invest in retirement benefit pension scheme
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BUDGET
Finance Ministry initiates pre-Budget consultations
Wants demands to be supplemented with statistics
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ECONOMY
Region-wise blueprints for development in AP
Move to counter Telangana movement
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ENVIRONMENT
BBC meet on deforestation
BBC World Service Trust, in association with the Energy and Resources Institute, is conducting a seminar on `deforestation in Kerala' in the city on Monday. The State Forests Minister, Mr Benoy Viswam, is scheduled to ...
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HEALTH
Practise yoga using patented devices
Claims include apparatus, software systems and yoga mats
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Wockhardt, MIDC sign pact for SEZ
Pharma major Wockhardt signed a memorandum of understanding with the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) for establishment of a special economic zone in Aurangabad on Sunday. Mr Rajiv Jalota, MIDC's Chief ...
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Hi-tech textile park planned near Hyderabad
The park is coming up near Cheguru village, about 36 km from Hyderabad in Mahboobnagar district.
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PSU
GRSE takes up modernisation
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has taken up modernisation project at a cost of Rs 400 crore and it is to be completed in two or three years, according to Rear-Admiral (retd) T.S. Ganeshan. Rear-Admiral Ganeshan, ...
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PETROLEUM
GAIL favours market rates for gas pricing
Submits proposal to high-level Petroleum Ministry committee
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CBM blocks: Expert panel to meet today
RNRL had objected to the methodology of selecting winners
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PHARMACEUTICALS
NIPER unit at IDPL Hyderabad facility likely
The Centre has in principle agreed to set up a unit of NIPER or an institute of higher learning of pharmaceutical education on the lines of NIPER at Hyderabad.
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POWER
`Energy clinics' to cut power consumption
With power consumption in Kerala steadily on the rise, Energy Management Centre (EMC), the nodal agency for implementation of the Energy Conservation Act, has stepped in with a programme to reduce consumption. Through `energy clinics', the ...
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TAXATION
Radio spots on service tax planned
With radio seeing a revival in recent years, the Finance Ministry is keen to use this medium to improve service tax compliance in the country. The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) plans to come up with a series of ...
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TYRES
Plea to cut tyre prices, removal of CVD on imports
Taking a cue from MRF's stand against the industry move on pricing, The All India Tyre Dealers Federation (AITDF) will meet the Union Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, tomorrow seeking 20 per cent reduction in tyre prices and abolition of 16 per ...
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MANAGEMENT
CAMPUS BUZZ
IIM-B's vista
IIM-B campus is buzzing with action. VISTA-the annual management meet has kicked off on September 13. VISTA aims to provide a platform for showcasing the best managerial talent from across the country. This time, the event has cut across ...
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EDUCATION
The opportunity cost
Wafers had just qualified in the May 2006 CA exams. The results that were announced in July saw her bag the all-India ninth rank. Naturally she was jubilant but China had wondered that if Wafers could crack it into the top 10, it spoke poorly of ...
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Needed: Practitioner teachers in ICT
The emerging shortage of trained people in the information and communication technology (ICT) field is alarming. The Government is talking of opening 30 new institutes to train young people in this discipline over the next three to five years. Is ...
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CONSULTING
`ERA wants to be like Nasscom'
The Chairman of Executive Recruiters Association (ERA), Mr T. Sreedhar, said that job portals are worried about recruiters and do not want to offer access to members of recruitment companies. This is a matter for concern in an environment where ...
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KNITWEAR & HOSIERY
CITU flayed for staging protest
The Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) has criticised the CITU-affiliated Banian and General Workers Union for staging protest demonstration in front of TEA headquarters in Tirupur on September 13. When the talks on the ...
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EVENTS
Congress CMs to meet at Nainital
To discuss agriculture, internal security
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Agenda for the week
FICCI: Meeting with Mr Jean Philippe Cotis, Chief Economist, OECD at 11.30 a.m. at Tansen Marg, New Delhi. UTI Mutual Fund: Press conference to launch `Wealth Builder Fund'; 11.30 a.m.; Oberoi Grand, Kolkata. BNCCI: 119th AGM; the Chief ...
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
`Dedication, hard work key to becoming successful'
`Achiever's Conclave' spells out formula for success
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Karnataka keen on achieving 20 pc share in total exports
Karnataka is aiming at achieving 20 per cent of share in total exports of the country by the end of this financial year. Speaking at `Business Awards 2006', organised by the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) in Mangalore on ...
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Call for lab facility to ensure quality of cocopeat exports
Considering the growing global demand for coir pith, the Coir Board should initiate steps for a well-equipped lab facility to ensure the quality of cocopeat (processed coir pith) exported from the country. Some of the cocopeat products ...
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NATURAL CALAMITIES
Despite calamities, India set for bumper cotton crop: Vaghela
Textile Ministry to press for extension of Technology Mission on Cotton
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BOOKS
Brain, a marvellous product and process
Memory is our most defining property, writes Steven Rose in The Future of the Brain, from Oxford University Press (www.oup.com). Memory "constitutes our individuality, provides our life's trajectory with autobiographical continuity, ...
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