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PETROLEUM: Non-domestic LPG may cost less
Prices may drop by Rs 350 a cylinder. New Delhi, Nov. 23 Both the players and the customers of non-domestic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have something to look forward to next month. Public and private players of the product are betting on a ...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: OECD paints gloomy picture of global investment patterns
New Delhi, Nov. 23 For emerging and developing economies such as India that had benefited from the recent sustained portfolio flows and private debt, the outlook at the moment is none too encouraging with a sure and fast retreat of capital ...

EDUCATION: Going for the buzzer — and the trophy
Small towns steal the tech show.. If an event is held for the first time in a city, be it an exhibition, a musical/star night, quiz/drawing or painting competition, the enthusiasm soars, making the event undoubtedly a memorable one.This was ...

ECONOMY: Slowdown: Customs agents feel the pinch
A Delhi-based Customs house agent recently received a communiqué seeking a 35 per cent reduction in clearing charges from one of its large customers — a multinational company that manufactures horns and central locking devices here ...

ECONOMY: Time to go fiscal?
The collapse of the financial system in recent times has led to freezing of debt markets throughout the world, with financial institutions refusing to lend to each other, forget about firms in other sectors such as manufacturing, getting cash. ...

TOURISM: Trouble ahead?
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EVENTS: Huge draw
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RADIO/TV: Tips for a healthy voice
Visually conscious people spend hours at the gym to keep their bodies in shape so that they look good, but singers, actors and RJs (radio jockeys) need to work out their voices to sound good, says Noel Keymer in Everything you ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Israeli architect for HMDA
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TOURISM: SBI is official banker, IOC partner for Volvo Race
Kochi, Nov. 23 As Kochi Port is all set to receive the world’s fastest racing yachts, State Bank of India and Indian Oil Corporation have joined the Volvo Ocean Race India stopover team as official banker and ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: ‘Identify infrastructure projects, accord fast track tag’
New Delhi, Nov. 23 The Government should identify 20-30 infrastructure projects of national importance and put them on fast track, industry body CII ...

ECONOMY: Chidambaram to inaugurate economic editors’ meet
New Delhi, Nov. 23 The Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, will inaugurate the three-day annual economic editors’ conference in the capital ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Problem is absence of will, not lack of resources
How fast will India grow this year, next year? That is a question that intrigues most of our economists today. The Finance Minister has been saying that growth will be not less than 7 per cent this year. The truth is nobody knows. It has been ...

COAL: Railways rakes in from coal demand
Major coal loading zonal railways have not been hit hard by the slowdown in the economy. The reason: steady demand for coal by power houses. Take the case of East Central Railway. Coal accounts for nearly 95 per cent of its traffic throughput. ...






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