STATES
TAMIL NADU
Tuticorin match units seek incentives
Madurai, Oct 26 Match manufacturers in Tuticorin have appealed to the Centre to grant more export incentives and a reduction in excise duty to make the industry more competitive.According to Mr M. Paramasivam, President, National Small ...
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Chamber seeks mandatory ethanol blending
Madurai, Oct. 26 Sattur Chamber of Commerce and Industries has made an appeal for mandatory blending of ethanol with petrol.The Chamber Secretary, Mr P.T.K.A. Balasubramanian, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan ...
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Kerala, TN renew transport pact
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 26 Kerala and Tamil Nadu Governments have signed the seventh supplementary inter-State transport agreement defining the routes that the State-owned transport corporations can ply in each other’s territory as also ...
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CII’s initiative on ‘Vision 2025’ for TN
Madurai, Oct 26 A kick-off meeting of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Madurai Zone, to evolve a strategy on framing the ‘Vision 2025’ for Tamil Nadu to achieve the emotional aspirations of the people, was held here on ...
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BHEL venture with TNEB for Rs 8,500-cr project
Chennai, Oct 26 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board today announced the setting up of a joint venture company to put up a 1,600-MW thermal power plant at Udangudi, near Tuticorin, southern Tamil Nadu.Twenty ...
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TMB’s 193rd branch at Sivakasi
Tuticorin-based Tamilnad Mercantile Bank has opened its second and 193rd branch at Sivakasi. Speaking on the occasion, Mr G. Narayana Moorthy, Managing Director and CEO of the bank, said that to increase the pan-India presence, the bank has been ...
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‘HR personnel need to develop global acumen’
Chennai, Oct 26 Only four per cent of the students who study in premier educational institutions such as IITs and IIMs want to go abroad (the US or the UK) for further studies or work. That number was as high as 60 per cent a few years ...
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Policy for youth advocated
Tiruchi, Oct 26 Educational and health policies befitting the higher component of youth in the population must be formulated to transform India into one of the richest nations in the world along with the US and China by 2050, said Prof M. ...
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ANDHRA PRADESH
Maharashtra tops list of 7 States in VAT collections
Gujarat recorded 18% growth at Rs 7,296 cr
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80 lakh new jobs in AP by 2015: CII
Hyderabad, Oct. 26 Over 80 lakh new jobs will be created in different sectors in Andhra Pradesh over next eight years, according to a study on skill and employability commissioned by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Southern ...
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3 bidders for ultra mega power projects in AP
New Delhi, Oct 26 The Centre’s ambitious ultra mega power project (UMPP) scheme is finding fewer takers. The Andhra Pradesh-based Krishnapatnam UMPP has received request for qualifications (RFQs) from just three bidders — Sterlite, ...
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Hollywood bonanza from HBO
Hyderabad, Oct. 26 As Home Box Office (HBO) celebrates its seventh year in India, it has unveiled plans to offer over 100 Hollywood movies, including some blockbusters during the festive season till December end. The Country Manager of ...
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Executive programme at Nimsme
Hyderabad, Oct. 26 The National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Nimsme) has formally launched the Phase-II of International Executive Development Programmes. It has also started the Foundation Programme for Extension ...
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Rice-based ethanol plant planned
Hyderabad, Oct. 26 Giving a boost to the ethanol production base, Bio Ethanol India Limited, a city-based company, has announced a Rs 50-crore project in West Godavari district.The 60-kilo litre a day (kld) capacity plant would start ...
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Curbs on rice exports cause anguish in AP
Kakinada, Oct. 26 Rice exporters here are in distress following the ban on export of non-basmati rice, imposed by the Union Government earlier this month. The subsequent order of the Government fixing a minimum export price ($425 a tonne) for ...
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HC nod for Lanco Hills project
Hyderabad, Oct. 26 A division of bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court today set aside a single judge order staying further activities on the ambitious Lanco Hills project, which seeks to create a satellite techno township including one of ...
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Meenachil offers advisory, training services for rubber farmers
Focus on scientific cultivation techniques to enhance output
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KERALA
Kerala, TN renew transport pact
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 26 Kerala and Tamil Nadu Governments have signed the seventh supplementary inter-State transport agreement defining the routes that the State-owned transport corporations can ply in each other’s territory as also ...
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MAHARASHTRA
Kajaria Ceramics to expand Sikandrabad unit
Pune Oct. 26 Kajaria Ceramics Ltd (KCL), ceramic tile manufacturer, plans to expand its existing unit in Sikandrabad, open more office-cum-display centres and introduce new products to cater to the housing and construction sector. ...
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WEST BENGAL
BUSINESS LINE, KOLKATA: FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Showcasing the North-East as investment destination
The first impression, they say, may be a lasting one. Perhaps for the first time ever, all the eight States of North-East region, namely, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram and Sikkim, presented a unified ...
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Closed tea gardens look for turnaround
The Union Minister of State for Commerce, Mr Jairam Ramesh, peeved at the poor response of the owners of West Bengal’s closed tea gardens to the rehabilitation scheme earlier announced by him with fanfare. He made yet another bold ...
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Bengal ties up with Komex for solar wafer manufacturing project
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Bengal may review luxury tax rates, says Buddhadeb
Centre urged to take initiatives for developing tourism infrastructure
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Time to upgrade jute industry technologically
On the face of it, it is an industry that accounts for a turnover of Rs 6,500 crore annually. More importantly, it provides direct employment to two-and-a-half lakh workers in the organised sector, and to another one lakh in the unorganised ...
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