The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 30, 2008

Call to scrap coastal zone notification
Fishermen and representatives of several NGOs have urged the Union Government to scrap the recently-issued coastal management zone notification and implement in earnest the coastal regulatory zone stipulations 1991, to safeguard their ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
India placed 71st in trade index
The World Economic Forum’s Global Enabling Trade Report 2008 released recently has placed India in 71st position in the global enabling trade index, largely due to the tariff barriers adopted by the country. The country continues to ... More

PETROLEUM
Cairn, ONGC plans for gas fields in Gujarat coast nearing completion
Joint development of Ambe, North Tapti offshore fields More

Retrograde step
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Indian Oil gears up for Paradip refinery work
SBI Capital appointed to tie up finances More

POWER
Fibre on power
Optic fibre cables over power lines? Electricity Board networks could be a terrific way to boost Internet connectivity. More

TAXATION
Simplify tax system: Modi
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EDUCATION
Learn together
LearnHub.com might be an educational portal but it works the way Facebook, Myspace and Orkut work — it brings together people, those who want to share learning and knowledge. Malgosia Green, Co-founder & CEO, LearnHub, believes ... More

GEMS & JEWELLERY
Jewel Expo on July 24-27
The Hyderabad Jewellery, Pearl and Gem Fair, HJF ‘08, will bring the best of Indian and international jewellery at the Hitex Exhibition centre here during July 24-27. This expo will coincide with the onset of festive season. The event is ... More

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
AP extends deadline for building regularisation
Hyderabad, June 29 The Andhra Pradesh Government has extended the deadline for regularisation of unauthorised constructions and deviations up to July 15, under the building regularisation scheme.The State has earlier issued the Andhra ... More

GOLD & SILVER
Gold to test resistance levels
Comex gold futures ended sharply higher on Friday as record high oil prices stirred inflation fears amid tumbling stock markets, driving equity investors to seek returns from commodities. Rising energy prices boost gold’s appeal as a ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
New FKCCI President
Mr D. Muralidhar, a business leader, has been elected President of the Federation of the Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry for 2008-09. A chartered accountant, Mr Muralidhar is a wholetime director in the Rs 80-crore Snam Group of ... More

MINERALS
DAE goes innovative as uranium supply gets tough
Attempts to extract the metal from secondary sources, sea water More

WTO
‘Fisheries output growth declined after WTO’
Kochi, June 29 Though the devaluation of the exchange rate was favourable in the early years of India’s liberalisation, the output growth in fisheries sector has sharply decelerated after the formation of the World Trade Organisation ... More

SOCIAL WELFARE
Ration cards cover more than the population of AP
Hyderabad, June 29 The number of people covered in ration cards issued in Andhra Pradesh far exceeds the actual number of people in the State.The Bureau of Economics and Statistics puts the population of the State at 8,41,07,104, ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Arecanut imports in 2007-08 touch 76,000 tonnes; unit value declines
Mangalore, June 29 Despite being a major arecanut producer in the world, India imported more than 76,000 tonnes of the commodity at a unit value of Rs 14.42 a kg during 2006-07. According to ‘Area and production ... More