Notification on wheat import duty for private trade soon: Pawar
A day after the Union Food and Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, announced that the Government had allowed private parties to import wheat at zero duty, as against the current 5 per cent, there was all-round confusion over the ...
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Oil PSU officers drop strike plan
Following an appeal from the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and an assurance that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas would look into their demands, the officers of the 12 state-owned oil companies decided to withdraw their proposed ...
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Government trying to mask ground reality in price rise
Buckling under pressure from political allies and adverse public opinion over rising prices of several essential food items, the Central Government, in the last three months, took a series of decisions to control prices. Some of these were ...
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HR challenge looms, especially in public sector
Look at what the IT industry has done; it is at the root of the fundamental change in the education system. MR P. V. MOHANDAS PAI, MEMBER OF BOARD AND HR CHIEF OF INFOSYS More
Surging revenues for pvt GSM operators
Riding on an exponential growth in subscribers, private GSM mobile operators have recorded a 49 per cent increase in revenues during the first quarter of the current financial year (April to June 2006) as compared to the first quarter of the ...
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Cement: Floods may affect dispatch
Floods in key States may impact growth in dispatches for some cement companies, marketmen say, while referring to figures recorded recently by majors such as ACC, Gujarat Ambuja, UltraTech and Grasim. While ACC's dispatches for August grew by 3.8 ...
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Nagarjuna: Betting on new venture
The development that Nagarjuna Constructions has entered the realty sector may well spur the stock, analysts point out. In particular, they underline the company's prospects, courtesy a land bank of 130 acres in tier-2 cities, a corpus that is ...
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Rolta: JV brings strength
Investment circles are said to have lately viewed Rolta positively, particularly considering the skills that its association with Thales of France is expected to bring in. The joint venture is significant from the point of view of technology ...
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