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INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
EXCISE AND CUSTOMS:
Excise waived for goods used in ultra mega power projects
No countervailing duty on equipment supplies from abroad. New Delhi, Aug. 15 Fiscal sops have been given for equipment supplies to ultra mega power projects (UMPPs). The Finance Ministry has granted excise duty exemption to goods procured for ...
EMPLOYMENT:
More investments will create more jobs: PM
‘Economy should grow at least 10% every year’. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has called for a new wave of industrialisation to generate more employment, even as he stressed the need for the economy to grow at the rate of ...
CEMENT:
Cement prices likely to go up on high input costs
Cos incur 40% increase in wage, salary costs. Hyderabad, Aug. 15 Cement prices are likely to go up in the next one or two months due to increasing input costs, especially in wages, salaries and coal ...
ECONOMY:
Kerala CM spells out development agenda
‘Unprecedented growth in industry, IT, tourism’. Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 15 There has been a quantum leap in development covering the various sectors and the State is going ahead with well-laid out programmes to further accelerate ...
EXPORTS & IMPORTS:
Secys’ panel to be set up to deal with exim infrastructure
Chennai, Aug. 15 The Government, in a bid to speedily deal with issues relating to infrastructure required for export-import, has decided to constitute a Core Group of Secretaries to be headed by the Cabinet Secretary. ...
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES:
Medicinal plants mission to allocate funds to States on demand basis
Chennai, Aug. 15 Disbursal among States of the approved 11th Plan outlay of Rs 630 crore for effectively propagating the new National Mission on Medicinal Plants (NMMP) of the Government will be strictly ‘demand-driven’, and not ...
HUMAN RESOURCES:
Tribunal’s power to reject dismissal of workman limited: HC
The Madras High Court has set aside an order of the Industrial Tribunal, Chennai, refusing to grant approval to the proposal of the TN State Transport Corporation (Madurai Divn II) to terminate the services of a workman on a charge of ...
HEALTH:
Insera plans to bring ‘Shelter’ to treat strokes
Chennai, Aug. 15 Though having a stroke is the second major cause of death globally and India is no exception. ...
CARS:
Premium carmakers offer leasing route to dealers, vendors
Mumbai, Aug 15 With network expansion in mind, the premium car makers are facilitating cost-effective operational leasing route for dealers to deck up their showrooms with the latest models. ...
TEXTILES:
SIMA wants export incentives to continue
Coimbatore, Aug 15 The Southern India Mills Association (SIMA) has urged the Centre to continue the scheme of interest subvention on export credit and not to tinker with the duty drawback ...
ENVIRONMENT:
Mangalore gets waste management plant
Mangalore, Aug. 15 The solid waste management plant will be operationalised in Mangalore in two days, according to Mr Krishna Palemar, Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister. ...
TOURISM:
Rlys plans heritage hotel in Kochi
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 15 The Railways has decided to set up a heritage hotel at the old Cochin Harbour Terminus station on Wellingdon Island. ...
EDUCATION:
Japanese management course
Nihongo Bashi ( www.nihongobashi.com), provider of Japanese management, language and culture training programmes in India, has commenced intake for the 2008 batch of its one-year, full-time postgraduate ...
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