The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Scope International to double Chennai infrastructure capacity
Scope International, Chennai, a global shared service centre of Standard Chartered Bank, UK, will double its infrastructure capacity in Chennai to around 800,000 sq ft by February. It added two more centres in the city recently, taking the ... More

HC rejects ONGC plea for tax exemption from Puducherry
The Madras High Court has turned down the plea of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to direct the Union Territory of Puducherry to continue exemption granted earlier from payment of motor vehicle tax for its vehicles. Dismissing a writ ... More

`Focus on farmers' capacity building in trading'
Capacity building of the domestic farming sector should precede any dialogue involving India's agriculture related trade under the Doha round/World Trade Organisation because of the heavy odds faced by the small farmers in market place, according ... More

NIFT knitwear meet in Tirupur tomorrow
National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) is holding a knitwear industry convention at Tirupur on November 23. The convention, to be held at the Tirupur Exporters Association (TEA) premises, isintended to propagate the initiatives taken ... More

Fortune Select opens for business
Fortune Select Palms, the IT Corridor's first deluxe hotel, opened for business this week. Mr Vikram Aggarwal of VVT Hotels, who developed this property with an investment of Rs 30 crore, owns the hotel. VVT Hotels has a management, operations ... More

`Airtel Song Catcher'
Airtel, a leading mobile services provider, launched the country's first-ever instant music on mobile `Airtel Song Catcher', here on Tuesday. Powered by music recognition technology from SK & CC, South Korea, the new facility ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Siri Mahamart unveils Rs 100-cr retail plan
To set up chain of hypermarkets, supermarkets in AP More

Max New York Life ties up with AP rural bank
Max New York Life and Adilabad District Cooperative Central Bank Ltd on Wednesday announced a strategic tie-up to sell life insurance products through the rural bank. The tie-up will strengthen the insurance company's rural presence in Andhra ... More

AP Govt takes over land allotted to IMG Bharata
The State Government has promulgated an Ordinance that empowers the takeover of the 855 acres of land and 10 sports complexes which were handed over to the IMG Academies Bharata for management. The Ordinance 12 of 2006 annulled the registered ... More

BJN Hotels in expansion mode
4 restaurants, 2 banquet halls planned in Hyderabad More

Tata Indicom crosses 1.5-m mark
Telecom services provider Tata Indicom has achieved its highest ever acquisition of new subscribers in Andhra Pradesh in October with 1.15 lakh new connections taking its overall subscriber base to over the 15-lakh (1.5 million) in the State. ... More

Winter's here!
AN EAGLE FLIES LOW in the winter fog over the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad on Tuesday morning.

KERALA
Call to encourage organic farming in a big way
`Growing demand for organic products worldwide' More

Mozambique in talks with Coir Board
A high-level official delegation from Mozambique headed by the Governor of the Province of Zambezia, Mr Carualho Muaria, visited the Coir Board office here on Monday and held discussions with the Board Chairman, Mr A.C. Jose. Apart from the ... More

Airtel voice SMS in Kerala
Airtel has announced the launch of Voice SMS in Kerala, which enables the users to message in their own voice and in the language of their choice. It is a short voice message service based on the `talk and listen' messaging ... More

March by special children
Navayanam, the State-level cultural journey of the mentally challenged children, organised in connection with the golden jubilee of the State formation, will get a warm welcome when it reaches Kottayam on November 24. The ... More

KARNATAKA
SBI Karnataka circle to focus on customer service
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IMS launches iCAP in Mangalore
IMS Learning Resources Pvt Ltd, which has 29 years experience in MBA entrance preparation, has launched iCAP (Interlinked Concepts and Application-based Pedagogy) at its Mangalore and Manipal centres. A press release by IMS said ... More

OTHER STATES
Delhi airport draws up strategy to tackle fog
To set up emergency response, interactive centre More

Ranbaxy Foundation honours six scientists
Ranbaxy Science Foundation, a non-profit organisation from Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, announced six research awardees in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences for 2005. Dr Sankar Ghosh, Professor of Yale University School of Medicine, will be ... More

MAHARASHTRA
GM lays foundation stone for Talegaon plant
To manufacture mini car Chevrolet Spark More

WEST BENGAL
Group behind blast yet to be identified
Uproar in West Bengal Assembly; alert sounded across State More

Great Eastern Energy, Indian Oil enter pact
Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd (GEECL) plans to form joint venture with IOC for marketing and distribution of city gas and compressed natural gas (CNG) in the Durgapur-Asansol industrial belt in West Bengal, according to a GEECL release. ... More

A BUSINESS LINE FEATURE: INTL MINING & MACHINERY EXHIBITION
Coal to stay key source for nation's energy needs
Available reports suggest that although the number of mines in CIL will remain almost the same, the average mine size in terms of coal production will increase three-fold. More

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