The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, February 08, 2007

TAMIL NADU
Cauvery issue resolution paves way for progress: Farmers
It paves the way for taking up long-term projects for improved efficiency of water use. More

`Cauvery award implementation can be done scientifically'
16 feasibility reports on linking of rivers ready More

Defining what quality is all about
The famed writer Somerset Maugham once said: "A funny thing about life is that if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it." Mr S. Sriram, Director, Great Lakes Institute of Management, sought to draw inspiration from the ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Rare intestinal angioplasty done
In a rare case, a 100-per cent block in the intestinal artery was cleared through angioplasty and stenting on a 36-year-old patient, Mr Venkateshwar Reddy of Mahabubnagar, by doctors at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) here. A ... More

Tobacco growers tour Zimbabwe
The delegation of Indian tobacco growers, on a study tour to Zimbabwe and Brazil, visited the Zimbabwe tobacco research station. In a message sent from that country on Wednesday, Mr J. Suresh Babu, Chairman of the Tobacco Board, ... More

Mantri Developers to invest Rs 500 cr in Hyderabad
Mantri Developers, the Bangalore-based real estate major, has decided to invest up to Rs 500 crore in a slew of projects in Hyderabad during the financial year 2007-08. These include residential homes, retail space and IT ... More

New Vizag-Bangalore flight
Paramount Airways has introduced a flight from Visakhapatnam to Bangalore via Hyderabad from Wednesday. With this, Paramount has 48 flights connecting important cities in the South, says a press release issued on the occasion. Mr ... More

ICL call for port wage revision
The Indian Federation of Port and Dock Workers, affiliated to the Indian Confederation of Labour, has urged the Union Government to expedite the process of wage revision for labour in the 12 major ports in the country. At a press meet here on ... More

KERALA
Cabinet nod for handover of Rajiv Gandhi biotech centre
The Kerala Cabinet has decided to hand over the State-run Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) here to the Centre. The Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, told newspersons after a Cabinet meet on Wednesday that the assets of RGCB ... More

Western India Plywood in revival mode
It is one of Asia's oldest plywood factories and had been paying uninterrupted dividends for over 50 years till 2000. In the face of the forces of liberalisation and globalisation, the fortunes of the Kannur-based Western India Plywood Ltd went ... More

Work on connectivity projects to Vallarpadam set to begin
Two months ahead of deadline More

Natural vanilla in ice creams
The usage of natural vanilla in ice creams is gaining acceptance among ice cream manufacturers as more and more companies had started using it for flavouring instead of synthetic vanilla. Mr Paul Jose, Managing Director of ... More

Cartoon on Reliance Mobile
Boban and Molly, the characters of cartoonist Toms will now entertain Reliance Mobile customers. Reliance Communications has announced that these popular cartoon characters would be available on Reliance Mobile World, the data ... More

KARNATAKA
1,000-acre SEZ for aerospace industry in Karnataka
Next, there will be a 1,000-acre special economic zone (SEZ) at Bangalore for aerospace industry. "We are in the process of acquiring land for this," according to the Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr H.D. Kumaraswamy, at the Aero India on ... More

Catching the show
MR RATAN TATA, Chairman, Tata group, and other participants at Aero India 2007 on Wednesday.

OTHER STATES
Reliance Telecom service in Mizoram
Reliance Telecom launched its services in Mizoram on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, Mr S.P. Shukla, President - Wireless, said that a host of value-added services were being launched to offer customers a choice at par with ... More

Puducherry to implement IT policy soon
The Puducherry Government, which has plans to implement its information technology policy will soon form a standing committee on e-governance in the Union Territory, according to Mr M.O.H.F. Shahjahan, Minister for Education and IT, Puducherry. ... More

Global fund for youth entrepreneurship
US-based non-profit organisation Youth Employment Summit (YES) Inc, a Clinton Global Initiative, launched on Wednesday a global fund to provide seed capital and entrepreneurship development support to the youth. To begin with, the corpus of ... More

MAHARASHTRA
Maharashtra Govt to approach MERC with fresh plan on load shedding
Lakhs of industrial units in Maharashtra, which do not require uninterrupted power for their operations, are likely to shut down for one day every week because of acute power shortage in the State. Sources said that the Maharashtra State ... More

Seminar on castor oil products
An international seminar on castor oil and value-added derivative products will be held in Ahmedabad on February 18. Organised by the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors Association of India, the seminar will discuss castorseed crop ... More

Summit India to focus on Indian clients
Los Angeles-based recruitment-company Summit HR Worldwide has launched a new company to focus on the recruiting needs of local companies and multinationals entering and expanding their operations in the country. Summit India, headquartered in ... More

GUJARAT
GVFL plans more investments in IT, biotech
GVFL Ltd, the country's pioneer venture capital company, today announced its plans to make four investments at seed and early stage in information technology and biotechnology sector in 2007. The GVFL CEO, Mr Vishnu Varshney, said here that the ... More

`India away from India' to woo Gujarati tourists
On an average, 50 Gujaratis visited Mauritius every month in a country where tourism contributes as much as 11 per cent to the national revenue. More

WEST BENGAL
America guest nation in book fair
America is participating as the "Guest of Honour Country" in the 32nd Kolkata Book Fair beginning February 9. The US will be "Theme Country" at the fair next year, according to a press release issued by American Centre. Books on ... More

New sub-stations inaugurated
Two separate 33/11 kV sub-stations were inaugurated at Bira-Joypul in Duttapukur and at Rajarhat, both in North 24-Parganas district, on Tuesday. Inaugurating the units, Mr Mrinal Banerjee, Minister for Power, West Bengal, ... More

Sub-inspector killed in Bhawanipore violence
A sub-inspector of the District Intelligence Branch (DIB) was reportedly killed and the Officer-in-Charge of the local police station and three other policemen were injured on Wednesday when villagers in Bhawanipore near Nandigram in East ... More

RBI workers upset
The representatives of Reserve Bank Employees Union and Reserve Bank Workers' Union, in a deputation to the Regional Director of Reserve Bank of India here on Wednesday, expressed their anguish over the management's decision to ... More

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