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Airlines

  • Gulf-based airlines prefer Kozhikode
  • Airport employees' strike
  • Airline industry not worried over Rly fare cut

    Alliances & Joint Ventures

  • LG Electronics signs MoU with ITIs
  • Bharti joins undersea cable consortium
  • Unisys Global, IIIT-B tie up
  • Bhushan Steel in jt venture pacts
  • Ford-Tata deal: ‘Trade union demands addressed’
  • France Telecom finalises joint venture with Moser Baer

    Andhra Pradesh

  • CEO Club to open AP chapter
  • Eureka Forbes launches UV-based water purifier
  • Vizag to Hyderabad Garib Rath
  • FAPI seeks Rs 5-cr loan
  • Railway Budget: Boost to AP logistics sector
  • LG Electronics signs MoU with ITIs
  • `Discovery' bags national award

    Announcements

  • ESPN STAR Sports gets Australian Open rights for 7 more years
  • Corporate developments
  • Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug rolled out
  • RIL gas find in Mahanadi basin block

    Arts & Crafts

  • Sotheby’s exhibition in Mumbai

    Automobile Components

  • Slowdown in global OEMs sourcing plans

    Awards & Honours

  • `Discovery' bags national award
  • Ambuja Cement wins award

    Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd

  • BHEL bags Rs 1,075-cr contract

    Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd

  • Bharti joins undersea cable consortium

    Bio-tech & Genetics

  • Withholding tax on biotech sector needs review

    Books

  • Depot to publish works of budding authors
  • `Discovery' bags national award

    Brands

  • LMG Brands mulls sourcing from India

    Broadband

  • Bharti joins undersea cable consortium

    Budget

  • Social measures through micro-credit
  • Issues the Budget shouldn’t ignore
  • Need for course correction
  • Down is up for global equity markets
  • Grain merchants seek tax waiver
  • Levy corporation tax on companies
  • Provide special concessions for SMEs
  • Radio broadcasting should be removed from service tax
  • 54EA/ 54EB investment must be made unrestricted
  • Set up sovereign fund to raise investments
  • Standard deduction is required for salaried class
  • Adopt proactive policies on education & training
  • Reduce dividend distribution tax
  • Create stability in duty structure
  • Discard Central sales tax
  • Banks, MFs must be allowed in futures markets
  • Extend STPI benefits to small, mid-size IT/ITES cos
  • Relax norms for advances against commodities
  • Re-introduce standard deduction
  • Export-oriented units should have flexible labour laws
  • Exempt senior citizens from filing returns
  • Scrap sales, service taxes on online advertising
  • Accord ‘infrastructure industry’ status to construction
  • Withholding tax on biotech sector needs review
  • Give more incentives for food processing
  • Allow FIIs to participate in commodity derivatives
  • Raise fixed deposit rates for senior citizens
  • Reduce personal tax

    Buyback

  • Reliance Energy to decide buyback on March 5

    Cars

  • Ford-Tata deal: ‘Trade union demands addressed’

    Cement

  • Ambuja Cement wins award
  • Freight cut on fly-ash buoys cement cos
  • Cement, steel stocks gain on freight rate cut

    Climate & Weather

  • Jet stream flux seen during early March
  • Mango crop hopes turn sour on adverse weather

    Coal

  • Bhushan Steel in jt venture pacts

    Commodity Markets

  • Banks, MFs must be allowed in futures markets
  • Allow FIIs to participate in commodity derivatives

    Courts/Legal Issues

  • Patent dispute: TVS Motor goes on appeal

    Credit Market

  • FAPI seeks Rs 5-cr loan

    Credit Rating

  • SBT signs MoU with Crisil

    Cultivation

  • Malaysia looking at cultivation of jatropha

    Derivatives Markets

  • Nifty witnesses pre-Budget accumulations in open interest

    Economy

  • Social measures through micro-credit
  • Issues the Budget shouldn’t ignore
  • Need for course correction
  • Govts may be Salvation
  • ‘India immune to global slowdown’

    Editorial

  • Steaming ahead

    Education

  • ‘New entrants should focus on acquiring skills’
  • IIM-K launches mentorship programme
  • Laterals in XLRI find many takers
  • Greycells18 educational channel
  • Adopt proactive policies on education & training

    Electrical Goods

  • Insulator co Saravana in talks for buying facility in Europe
  • BHEL bags Rs 1,075-cr contract

    Employment

  • Laterals in XLRI find many takers

    Engineering

  • Private wagon makers welcome Railway Budget

    Entrepreneurship

  • FAPI seeks Rs 5-cr loan

    Events

  • ‘Month of France’ isn’t all French
  • Volvo Ocean Race: Kochi exempted from paying entry fee
  • Intex to begin in Delhi from March 2

    Exports & Imports

  • Jewellery exports to US decline 4% on global cues
  • Export-oriented units should have flexible labour laws

    Financial Markets

  • Govts may be Salvation

    Financial Performance

  • StanChart India income jumps 60% in 2007

    Financial Scan

  • Govts may be Salvation

    Financial Services

  • Motilal Oswal, IDBI Bank team up for online trading facility

    Fixed Deposits

  • SBH raises rates on term deposits
  • Raise fixed deposit rates for senior citizens

    Foodgrains

  • Grain merchants seek tax waiver

    Foods & Food Processing

  • Give more incentives for food processing

    Foreign Banks

  • StanChart India income jumps 60% in 2007

    Foreign Direct Investment

  • 37 FDI proposals in broadcasting sector cleared

    Foreign Institutional Investors

  • Allow FIIs to participate in commodity derivatives
  • ‘India immune to global slowdown’

    Foreign Relations

  • ‘Month of France’ isn’t all French

    Foreign Trade

  • India, China bilateral trade

    Forex

  • Rupee gains in dull trade
  • Slowdown in global OEMs sourcing plans

    Gems & Jewellery

  • Jewellery exports to US decline 4% on global cues

    General Insurance

  • Raise fixed deposit rates for senior citizens

    Govt Bonds

  • Bond prices decline

    HDFC Bank Ltd

  • Factors at play in the HDFC Bank-Centurion deal

    Hardware

  • Semiconductor pact
  • Create stability in duty structure

    Home Appliances

  • Eureka Forbes launches UV-based water purifier

    Horticulture/Fruits & Vegetables

  • Mango crop hopes turn sour on adverse weather

    Human Resources

  • ‘New entrants should focus on acquiring skills’
  • LG Electronics signs MoU with ITIs
  • Rlys makes Rs 4,500-cr provision for 6th Pay Commission outgo

    IPR

  • Patent dispute: TVS Motor goes on appeal
  • TVS Motor — learning a key lesson

    Income Tax

  • Standard deduction is required for salaried class
  • Re-introduce standard deduction
  • Exempt senior citizens from filing returns
  • Reduce personal tax

    Industry Associations

  • Chambers hail Budget as good for ‘aam aadmi’
  • CEO Club to open AP chapter
  • Chambers give the thumbs up to proposals

    Infosys Technologies Ltd

  • Satyam, Infosys in pursuit of large railway deals

    Insight

  • Falls short of the extra mile
  • Freight first!
  • Integrated approach, quality audits
  • Budget politics
  • Down is up for global equity markets
  • Some signposts, not a clear road map in Rail Budget
  • Rail Budget: How to have the cake and eat it too
  • Railway Budget: Record outlays may benefit a host of cos

    Interest Rates

  • SBH raises rates on term deposits

    Interview

  • Factors at play in the HDFC Bank-Centurion deal
  • TVS Motor — learning a key lesson

    Investments

  • Set up sovereign fund to raise investments

    Kerala

  • IIM-K launches mentorship programme
  • Railway Budget plans lauded
  • Kerala looking to avoid load-shedding this summer
  • CAG finds fault with working of TTP
  • Attracting tourists
  • Bonus cards from Vodafone

    Kochi

  • Volvo Ocean Race: Kochi exempted from paying entry fee

    Letters

  • Social measures through micro-credit

    M-Commerce

  • Booking of tickets through mobile phone soon

    Maharashtra

  • Depot to publish works of budding authors
  • Sotheby’s exhibition in Mumbai

    Management

  • IIM-K launches mentorship programme

    Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Factors at play in the HDFC Bank-Centurion deal
  • Bhuwalka Steel buys Benaka Sponge

    Minerals

  • Rlys earnings from iron ore traffic may rise 44.56% this fiscal
  • ‘Reclassify iron ore tariffs’

    New Business

  • BHEL bags Rs 1,075-cr contract
  • Era Infra bags Rs 78-cr project

    New Products & Services

  • Eureka Forbes launches UV-based water purifier
  • Greycells18 educational channel
  • Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug rolled out

    Newspapers & Publishing

  • Depot to publish works of budding authors

    Non-conventional Energy

  • Malaysia looking at cultivation of jatropha

    Oilseeds & Edible Oil

  • Palm oil may top 4,000 ringgits soon

    Online Marketing

  • Scrap sales, service taxes on online advertising

    Other States

  • Laterals in XLRI find many takers

    Outlook

  • Kernex sees potential for rail safety systems
  • Arch Pharma eyes Europe acquisition

    Outsourcing

  • LMG Brands mulls sourcing from India
  • Satyam, Infosys in pursuit of large railway deals
  • Wiley to head Motif's US ops
  • Slowdown in global OEMs sourcing plans

    Overseas Borrowings

  • Sujana Towers to raise $75 m

    Overseas Investments

  • Insulator co Saravana in talks for buying facility in Europe
  • Union Bank exploring opportunities in Australia
  • Bhushan Steel in jt venture pacts
  • Arch Pharma eyes Europe acquisition

    PSU

  • CAG finds fault with working of TTP

    People

  • ITV is editorial advisor to NewsX
  • Wiley to head Motif's US ops

    Petroleum

  • Corpn Bank ATMs at MRPL outlets
  • RIL gas find in Mahanadi basin block
  • Oil marketing cos to save Rs 90 cr on lower freight

    Pharmaceuticals

  • Arch Pharma eyes Europe acquisition
  • Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug rolled out

    Policy

  • Raja clears licences for new operators

    Politics

  • Budget politics

    Power

  • Kerala looking to avoid load-shedding this summer
  • Reliance Energy to decide buyback on March 5

    Private Banks

  • Factors at play in the HDFC Bank-Centurion deal
  • Tamilnad Mercantile AGM on April 11
  • Motilal Oswal, IDBI Bank team up for online trading facility

    Promotions & Offers

  • Airtel offers super lifetime validity
  • Bonus cards from Vodafone

    Public Sector Banks

  • SBT signs MoU with Crisil
  • Corpn Bank ATMs at MRPL outlets
  • Union Bank exploring opportunities in Australia

    Radio/TV

  • Greycells18 educational channel
  • ITV is editorial advisor to NewsX
  • ESPN STAR Sports gets Australian Open rights for 7 more years
  • 37 FDI proposals in broadcasting sector cleared
  • Duty cut on set top boxes proposed
  • Radio broadcasting should be removed from service tax

    Railway Budget

  • Falls short of the extra mile
  • Freight first!
  • Integrated approach, quality audits
  • Steaming ahead
  • Budget politics
  • Some signposts, not a clear road map in Rail Budget
  • Chambers hail Budget as good for ‘aam aadmi’
  • Railway Budget plans lauded
  • Vizag to Hyderabad Garib Rath
  • ‘Coach factory in Kerala may help Coimbatore units’
  • Railway Budget: Boost to AP logistics sector
  • Satyam, Infosys in pursuit of large railway deals
  • Rail Budget: How to have the cake and eat it too
  • Wagon leasing policy hailed
  • Rlys earnings from iron ore traffic may rise 44.56% this fiscal
  • Private wagon makers welcome Railway Budget
  • Kernex sees potential for rail safety systems
  • Railway Budget: Record outlays may benefit a host of cos
  • Rlys to mop up Rs 7,200 cr in 2008-09
  • ‘Boost for stainless steel industry’
  • Airline industry not worried over Rly fare cut
  • Rlys makes Rs 4,500-cr provision for 6th Pay Commission outgo
  • Railway sees Rs 1 lakh cr investment in PPP projects in 5 years
  • Oil marketing cos to save Rs 90 cr on lower freight
  • No hike in fares; host of benefits to passengers
  • ‘Railways eyes PPP mode for non-core biz’
  • Chambers give the thumbs up to proposals
  • Booking of tickets through mobile phone soon
  • Freight cut on fly-ash buoys cement cos
  • Highlights: Cash surplus at record high
  • ‘Reclassify iron ore tariffs’
  • Lalu extends concessions, goes for more traffic share
  • Cement, steel stocks gain on freight rate cut

    Railways

  • No hike in fares; host of benefits to passengers
  • Highlights: Cash surplus at record high
  • Lalu extends concessions, goes for more traffic share

    Readymade Garments

  • Intex to begin in Delhi from March 2
  • LMG Brands mulls sourcing from India

    Real Estate & Construction

  • Gayatri Projects to float arm
  • Accord ‘infrastructure industry’ status to construction
  • Era Infra bags Rs 78-cr project

    Recommendation

  • Bartronics India (Rs 223.90): Buy
  • Day Trading Guide

    Regulatory Bodies & Rulings

  • CAG finds fault with working of TTP
  • Short selling: Clarity needed on tax issues

    Reliance Energy Ltd

  • Reliance Energy to decide buyback on March 5

    Reliance Industries Ltd

  • RIL gas find in Mahanadi basin block

    Restructuring

  • Gayatri Projects to float arm

    Roadways

  • Allcargo ties up with Concor

    Rubber

  • Spot rubber rules steady

    Rural Development

  • SHG takes to power laundry

    SSI

  • ‘Coach factory in Kerala may help Coimbatore units’
  • Provide special concessions for SMEs

    Satyam Computer Services Ltd

  • Satyam, Infosys in pursuit of large railway deals

    Science & Technology

  • `Discovery' bags national award

    Shipping

  • Volvo Ocean Race: Kochi exempted from paying entry fee

    Short Term Instruments

  • Call rates close lower

    Software

  • Unisys Global, IIIT-B tie up
  • Satyam, Infosys in pursuit of large railway deals

    Spices & Condiments

  • Vietnam factor drives up pepper

    Sports

  • ESPN STAR Sports gets Australian Open rights for 7 more years

    Steel

  • Bhushan Steel in jt venture pacts
  • Bhuwalka Steel buys Benaka Sponge
  • ‘Boost for stainless steel industry’
  • Cement, steel stocks gain on freight rate cut

    Stock Markets

  • Down is up for global equity markets
  • Nifty witnesses pre-Budget accumulations in open interest
  • Short selling: Clarity needed on tax issues
  • Cement, steel stocks gain on freight rate cut

    Stocks

  • Reliance Energy to decide buyback on March 5
  • Railway Budget: Record outlays may benefit a host of cos
  • Bartronics India (Rs 223.90): Buy

    Sugar

  • ‘India holds key to global sugar prices’

    Supply Chain Management

  • Allcargo ties up with Concor

    Tamil Nadu

  • Airtel offers super lifetime validity
  • Grain merchants seek tax waiver
  • Insulator co Saravana in talks for buying facility in Europe
  • ‘New entrants should focus on acquiring skills’
  • SHG takes to power laundry
  • Intex to begin in Delhi from March 2
  • ‘Coach factory in Kerala may help Coimbatore units’

    Tata Communications Ltd

  • Tata Comm to expand VPN services to China

    Tata Motors Ltd

  • Ford-Tata deal: ‘Trade union demands addressed’

    Taxation

  • Duty cut on set top boxes proposed
  • Levy corporation tax on companies
  • 54EA/ 54EB investment must be made unrestricted
  • Reduce dividend distribution tax
  • Discard Central sales tax

    Technical Analysis

  • Volatile movement
  • Day Trading Guide

    Telecommunications

  • Airtel offers super lifetime validity
  • Bonus cards from Vodafone
  • Tata Comm to expand VPN services to China
  • Raja clears licences for new operators
  • France Telecom finalises joint venture with Moser Baer

    Tourism

  • Attracting tourists

    Trade & Labour Unions

  • Airport employees' strike
  • Ford-Tata deal: ‘Trade union demands addressed’

    Two/Three Wheelers

  • Patent dispute: TVS Motor goes on appeal
  • TVS Motor — learning a key lesson

    View Point

  • Budget politics

    Water

  • Eureka Forbes launches UV-based water purifier

    West Bengal

  • Chambers hail Budget as good for ‘aam aadmi’
  • India, China bilateral trade
  • Airport employees' strike




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