The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 31, 2007

TAMIL NADU
TN Govt to create talent pool for info tech industry
Tamil Nadu, through the proposed IT Academy, is working with Nasscom to design a training curriculum for students in arts and science colleges, and train them to be readily available for IT industry, according to Dr C. Chandramouli, Tamil Nadu ... More

Scope Intl launches `campus initiative'
Scope International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank Group, UK, has launched a `campus initiative' to reinforce the skills of college graduates, especially soft skills and communication. As a first step, the group's Chief ... More

Thiagarajar College's golden jubilee
The demand for having Anna University in Madurai would receive due consideration from the Chief Minister, the Minister for Higher Education, Mr K. Ponmudi, said here on Monday. Announcing this while addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of ... More

New IRCTC group general manager
Mr S. Gagarin has been appointed as the Group General Manager (GGM) of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd covering the Bangalore, Mysore and Hubli divisions of South Western Railway (SWR). He was earlier the ... More

ANDHRA PRADESH
Jute mill to expand capacity
Swarnandhra Jute Mill at Pydi Bhimavaram in Srikakulam district is planning to expand its capacity from the present 10 tonnes to 100 tonnes at a cost of Rs 100 crore, said Mr B.V. Rama Rao, the promoter. The twine mill went into ... More

Samsonite Black Label store in Hyderabad
Travel and accessory products company Samsonite opened its fourth flagship store, Samsonite Black Label, in Hyderabad on Tuesday. It plans about 100 exclusive outlets globally during the year. This new store is part of Samsonite's global ... More

Fears of realty crash in Hyderabad allayed
Market may slow down, say developers More

APSRTC makes Rs 103-cr profit
After passing through a bad patch for years, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) has registered a profit of Rs 103 crore during the nine-month period ended December 31, 2006 as against a loss of Rs 43 crore in 2005-06. ... More

Milk dearer in AP coastal towns
Milk is becoming dearer in the coastal districts, with the two major co-operative dairies (Vijaya Dairy at Vijayawada and Visakha Dairy at Visakhapatnam) increasing the retail price by Re 1 to Rs 2 per litre, citing the increase ... More

KERALA
IBS Group proposes virtual travel market
Integrated transportation management through Virtual Travel Market (VTM) will help optimise transportation resource and asset utilisation in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram. VTM will enable customers to view transport (air, road and ... More

Workshop on software copyrights
The Indian Institute for Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) is joining other leading institutions to organise a one-day workshop on `Software copyrights, licensing and reuse of open source products' at ... More

Nabard to hold credit seminar
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is organising a `State credit seminar 2007-08' on February 1 at its regional office here. The participants will include senior executives of Nabard, the RBI, ... More

KARNATAKA
New Volvo bus manufacturing plant in Bangalore
Volvo India Bus Technologies Ltd, a 70:30 joint venture between Volvo India and JAICO (bus body manufacturers) will establish a bus body manufacturing plant in Hoskote, Bangalore. The subsidiary will invest Rs 50 crore in the new plant, which ... More

IIMB to raise fees for all courses from June
The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on Tuesday announced a hike in fee across all courses with effect from June 2007. "We've decided to raise this year's PGP fee to Rs 2 lakh per annum from Rs 1.75 lakh per annum," the IIMB ... More

OTHER STATES
Primitive technique
FISHERMAN ENGAGED in fishing the traditional way at Manglajodi-Chilika Lake in Orissa.

MAHARASHTRA
Mumbai to host multiple commodity meet
"The event seeks to provide a neutral platform to stakeholders to discuss issues threadbare, arrive at policy inputs and share market outlook." More

GUJARAT
More Gujarat towns to join gas grid
Transformation of traditional fuel-based to gas-based economy More

WEST BENGAL
No book fair on the Maidan, a big blow to Kolkata
The Calcutta High Court not allowing the Book Fair on the Maidan is a blow to Kolkata that had been projected on the international fair circuit from the late 1970s thanks to the book exhibition. More

ICAI rotating shield
The Eastern India Regional Council (EIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) has won, jointly with the Western Indian Regional Council, the rotating shield for 2006, a press release said. The institute has five ... More

Techno-management fest tomorrow
Kshitij 2007, the techno-management festival of IIT, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) is slated to be held on February 1-4. This year, the event will host 35 technical and managerial events. While the technical events are aimed at providing ... More

Tanker strike called off temporarily in Bengal
Auto-fuel supply may return to normalcy by Wednesday evening More

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