The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 26, 2007

ENGINEERING
Meet on manufacturing excellence
The Confederation of Indian Industry, Andhra Pradesh, will be organising the fourth edition of leadership series on manufacturing excellence, MAN EXE-07, on `Vision for Manufacturing - The Next Wave' here on June 27. According to ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Indo-Thai bilateral trade growing strongly
Bilateral trade between India and Thailand touched $2 billion in the first eight months of fiscal 2006-07, latest government data showed. The growth in bilateral trade in the recent years came up for discussion during the meeting between the ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE
Major road projects coming up for bidding
Highest-ever annual target for highways development More

PETROLEUM
Gas pricing issue referred to Secretaries panel
Petroleum Ministry favours market-determined price for Krishna Godavari gas More

PHARMACEUTICALS
Innovation or imitation — the Hobson's choice
As scientists build on existing medicines, they can achieve breakthroughs that significantly improve the medicines, enhancing patients' quality of life. More

Drug clinical trials may be outsourced to India
Bilcare Research tie up to impart training More

POWER
GIS mapping of energy-intensive industries in the works
To ensure conservation efforts are rightly targeted More

BHEL consortium bags RINL order
A consortium of power equipments maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) and the Germany-based MAN Turbo have won a Rs 106-crore order from Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) for supply and installation of a turbo blower package. ... More

Hunger strike against hydel projects in North Sikkim
`Environment and social implications not taken into account' More

STEEL
Focus on raw material security, steel industry told
Jt venture mooted to access raw material assets More

SSI
FICCI moots measures to develop SME clusters
FICCI has urged financial institutions to increase the profiling and risk assessment of SMEs to reach out to a higher number of enterprises. This follows the viability in financing the existing cluster development programmes for SMEs, the ... More

Small businesses may soon invest in computers
15% of non-PC owning businesses prefer laptops: Study More

RADIO/TV
JGI FM radio service to start broadcast in Bangalore
Domain specific information relating to education, health, social and hygiene awareness More

EDUCATION
Decks cleared for Institute of Translational Research
The fundamental focus of the institute will be on various areas of biological research, especially cell biology, developmental biology, stem cell biology, cancer biology etc. More

CONSULTING
RITES bags Bangalore Metro consultancy contract
A consortium of RITES Ltd (India) - PCI (Japan) - PBI (USA) - SYSTRA (France) has bagged a Rs 215 crore order to provide general consultancy services to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. The services would be provided for Bangalore ... More

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
NGRI scientist honoured
Dr T. Harinarayana, Scientist at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), here has been elected as a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), Moscow. The academy has 23 Nobel Prize winners as its ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
`Govt not to regulate salaries of private co executives'
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has clarified that the Government does not intend to regulate salaries and other benefits given to directors and executives of private companies. Speaking at a seminar organised by Assocham here on Monday, ... More

Job profiles, roles key for `executive batch' in IIM-C
The time and effort spared by serving executives to return to classrooms for pursuing studies is a clear indicator of the level of motivation and ambition... More

EVENTS
Bajaj may showcase small car prototype at Auto Expo
Focus will remain on high-end bikes with better margins More

Nokia Siemens Network bullish on India
Working on `flat line' solutions for network architecture More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS
PHD Chamber lists steps for better export performance
The chamber has suggested the Government fix and publish specific charges under different heads for transporting export cargo from place of acceptance to different ports of loading in India. More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Importance of TQM for services sector
A good management would correlate every customer complaint with the corresponding defective business processes. More

`Delay in review of food standards preventing rice bran oil promotion'
Production can top 10 lakh tonnes in 3 years More

SICK UNITS
SPS Group buys Indo American Electric
Group also buys 52% of Bharat Biscuits More