STATES
TAMIL NADU
TN cuts sales tax on diesel
Chennai, June 5 The Tamil Nadu Government has cut the sales tax on diesel by two percentage points representing a relief of about 60 paise a litre to the consumer.According to an official press release, the State Government announced ...
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e-Readiness centre for Tirupur knitwear cluster to be launched today
Aims to help small and medium enterprises improve competitiveness
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Entrepreneurship training programme
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Seminar on cluster financing
Majority of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face lot of constraints and feel the heat of increasing competition. Being an important sector in the economy in terms of its contribution to exports and employment, they need to be run on a ...
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Workshop on ‘Madurai Malli’
A Committee from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University is working on securing a patent for Madurai Malli (the Tamil word for jasmine flower cultivated in the region) and register the same under Geographical Indicators Act to preserve its ...
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Two-day convention on Ayurveda in Aug
Coimbatore, June 5 In its bid to take Ayurveda to global and grass root levels, the Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Ltd is planning an international convention between August 22 and 24 at the Codissia Trade Fair Complex here.The ...
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Two TN firms bag exporters’ excellence award
Coimbatore, June 5 Two Tamil Nadu-based companies — Anugraha Valve Castings Ltd located at Coimbatore and Tirupur-based CBC Fashions — have bagged the D&B-ECGC Indian Exporters Excellence Awards. The award is in recognition of ...
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ANDHRA PRADESH
Public-private partnership model to tackle HIV
Hyderabad, June 5 Andhra Pradesh is planning to have around 1,200 new clinics that would provide facilities to deliver services for the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and thereby halt the spread of ...
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Off the roads
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APPSC’s Group I recruitment pattern attracts interest
Changes in interview models being planned
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NMDC’s project gets clearances
Hyderabad, June 5 NMDC’s new project of Deposit 11B in Bailadila sector of Chhattisgarh has got all the statutory clearances and the mine is under construction. The public sector undertaking has four production units in ...
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Boat operators’ plea on diesel price hike
Visakhapatnam, June 5 The Visakha Dolphin Boat Operators’ Welfare Association has urged the Union Government to roll back the hike in diesel price as it will adversely affect the fisheries sector, which is already under great ...
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Hyderabad co's offer for flat owners
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Meet on fair trade, microfinance in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, June 5 The Netherlands-based development finance institution Oikocredit and its Indian subsidiary Manaveeya Holdings and Investments Pvt Ltd will be holding an international conference on ‘Fair Trade and Micro Finance’ ...
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KERALA
Rest day
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Cochin SEZ's green drive
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Rubber merchants’ plea to Kerala Govt on refunds
Kochi, June 5 The Cochin Rubber Merchants Association has urged the Kerala Government to direct the sales-tax authorities to refund the excess amount deposited by the rubber dealers conducting inter-state trade. The Association ...
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KARNATAKA
Wipro launches Eco Eye initiative
Bangalore, June 5 Wipro Ltd has launched Eco Eye, a comprehensive programme that drives increasing ecological sustainability in all its operations, and areas of its influence. All stakeholders — employees, partners, suppliers, customers ...
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Deemed varsity status for Nitte
The A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, managed by Nitte Education Trust, has been granted the status of deemed university. A press release from the trust said here on Thursday that Nitte University has been formed and declared as ...
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State Bank of Mysore unveils debt waiver scheme
Bangalore, June 5 State Bank of Mysore (SBM) has launched its farm debt waiver and relief scheme for 2008. SBM’s Managing Director, Mr P.P. Pattanayak, personally monitored the progress and preparations of the farm debt relief ...
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New DGMs in Corporation Bank
Corporation Bank has promoted nine Assistant General Managers to the level of Deputy General Managers. A bank release said here on Thursday that Mr R. Sudarshana Raju, Mr K.S. Kalyana Sundaram, Ms Swathi S.M., Mr M. Gokuldas Kamath, Mr M. ...
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OTHER STATES
Eco bus
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‘Citizens want Govt to take responsibility for eco issues’
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GUJARAT
Amrita Patel gets environ award
Anand, June 4 The President, Ms Pratibha Patil, conferred on Dr Amrita Patel, Founder Chairperson of the Foundation for Ecological security (FES), Anand, the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar on the World Environment Day today, at New Delhi. ...
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WEST BENGAL
‘General strike’ peaceful, total
Kolkata, June 5 Today’s 12-hour “general strike” called by the Left Front in West Bengal to protest against the Centre’s decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel and LPG was “total and spontaneous” ...
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Environment day with a difference
Kolkata, June 5 “Kolkata is after all livable only during a bandh,” – is how Mr K.K. Nevada, President, Bengal National Chamber of Commerce, described the city on the Environment Day, which happened to escape its daily dose ...
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RRB employees plan strike
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