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HUMAN RESOURCES: Accounting technicians in ICAI’s new scheme
The entry requirements for articleship training in the chartered accountancy course were not tinkered with from 1949 to 1992 (except for a few years). This was mainly because the articleship was open only to ...

SOCIAL SECURITY: Arogyasri, 108 services come in for sharp criticism
Govt neglect wounding public health care, says neurosurgeon. Hyderabad, Sept. 21 The public healthcare policy in general and Arogyasri (the health insurance scheme for the poor) and 108 services (for ambulance) in particular came in for sharp ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Construction industry meet
Constru India 2008, the International Infrastructure Seminar on Urban Development and Urban Infrastructure to be held in Mumbai, would focus on the progress of the construction industry in the country, according to Mr Avneet ...

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: New BNCCI office-bearers
At the 121st annual general meeting of the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry here on Saturday, the following new office-bearers were elected. President: Mr Sandip Sen, Partner, Technocon Services, Vice-Presidents: Mr S.K. ...

FOREIGN TRADE: India, Uzbekistan resolve to step up bilateral trade
India urges speedy completion of entrepreneur centre at Tashkent. New Delhi, Sept. 21 India and Uzbekistan have identified that the favourable economic conditions and untapped potentials of both countries could help in boosting bilateral trade ...

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES: CARe Keralam to set up ayurvedic units at Koratty
Kochi, Sept 21 CARe-Keralam, the Confederation of Ayurvedic Renaissance Keralam Ltd, a joint venture between the Government of India, the Kerala Government, and ayurvedic industries will soon begin work to set up facilities at Koratty in ...

ANTI-DUMPING: Sunset review of dumping duty on nylon tyre cord fabric begins
New Delhi, Sept. 21 The Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has initiated sunset review of anti-dumping duty it imposed on imported Nylon Tyre Cord Fabric (NTCF) from China to determine whether the dumping duty is to be ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Cashew exports continue to show uptrend
Kochi, Sept 21 Cashew exports from the country continued to show an upward trend, despite the rise in prices on short supply from ...

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: CII opens skill development centre in M.P.
New Delhi, Sept. 21 The Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr Kamal Nath, on Saturday launched India’s and CII’s first National Centre of Excellence for Skill Development in Chhindwara district, Madhya ...

TOURISM: Kerala CM calls for efforts to promote domestic tourism
Kochi, Sept 21 The fifth edition of the four-day Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) has commenced here with the Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achutanandan, calling for efforts to promote domestic tourism to woo international ...

FOREIGN TRADE: FICCI for boosting trade with Korea
New Delhi, Sept. 21 The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry said that there was enormous scope for trade between India and Korea to expand as the 12th round of negotiations are set to begin this week at Seoul to conclude ...

PHARMACEUTICALS: Right prescription
Are PE (private equity) investors interested enough in ‘discovery research’? This is one of the questions that KPMG takes up in Pharma Summit 2008: India Pharma Inc – an Emerging Global Pharma Hub ...

EVENTS: Reaching out
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EMPLOYMENT: ‘JKCs getting more jobs for AP students’
Visakhapatnam, Sept. 21 Nearly a thousand Jawahar Knowledge Centres in Andhra Pradesh, set up by the Institute of Electronic Governance of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, are dramatically improving the job prospects of engineering students ...

ECONOMY: Living on a dollar a day
The south Indian State of Kerala has long been held up as a shining example of developmental success in the face of economic odds. Several academics have analysed the “Kerala model” of development. G.K. Lieten, for instance, ...

EDUCATION: Mr J. Karthikeyan, Director-Research and Consulting, Finerva Financial Solutions; Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Vattamalaipalayam
Coimbatore, Sept 21 There is a dire need for the Government to revamp the price index to reflect the present day life style of the people so that the index could serve as the true barometer of the current cost ...

EDUCATION: Mr P.V.S. Ravindra Verma, DGM (HR), Matrix Labs; Pendekanti Institute of Management, Hyderabad
“Refocus your attention on what is right and what is working well, rather than what is not working,” is the advice of Mr P.V.S. Ravindra Varma of Matrix Laboratories Limited to ...

HEALTH: Why limit exemption on non-hospitalisation expense?
Why non-hospitalisation medical expenses are cold-shouldered both by the insurers and the ...

MINERALS: Buzz on iron ore freight rates
Railways’ circles are abuzz with rumour that the classification of iron ore for other than domestic consumption might be scaled down from 200X, which incidentally is the highest freight rate in the Railways. The source of the rumour is ...

ECONOMY: EU ‘recession’ and seaborne trade
The global economic slowdown, centred on a weaker US economy, is showing signs of decline ahead for the seaborne container trade, according to Global Insight shipping analysis. “We are concerned about the growing number of economic ...






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