The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, November 09, 2008

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

INFRASTRUCTURE: Infrastructure cos fear project delays
Availability, pricing of credit are major concerns now. Chennai, Nov. 8 Till a few months back, players in the infrastructure sector were buoyant. The market was large and there were plenty of projects coming up. What they felt would be the ...

SOCIAL SECURITY: Templeton India Pension Plan: Invest
Templeton India Pension Plan is an open-ended debt-oriented balanced fund with maximum allocation of 40 per cent to equity, and the rest in debt. The fund marginally beat the category average over a five-year time-frame and outpaced the ...

ALUMINIUM: Aluminium — feeling the heat
Aluminium, one of the most popularly traded base metals, currently trades at around $2,036 per tonne at the London Metal Exchange (LME) and Rs 95 per kg at the Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) in India. The prices have fallen by about 12 per cent ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Time to buy...
Is it time to look at purchasing property? Has the correction set in? These are questions most property seekers want answers ...

NRIS: Gujarat builders woo non-residents
Property show in US showcases investment options. Property developers in Gujarat are devising ways to tap the lucrative `Non Residential Gujarati’ market to get them to invest in the ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Small is beautiful, again
The huge demand for small dwelling units, and funding limitations, are encouraging developers in Pune to look at compact housing and the once popular 1-BHK (One-bedroom, hall and kitchen). A few weeks ago, the Promoters and ...

FOREIGN TRADE: Belgium keen on trade ties in biopharma, nuclear energy sectors
Belgium is interested in collaborating with India in biopharma, financial sector, nuclear energy for civil applications and logistics, according to its Minister for Foreign Trade and Foreign Affairs, Mr ...

HEALTH: Taking the pain out of ‘cashless’ facility
You have paid your medical insurance premium and are fully covered for hospitalisation expenses. You should be able to just walk into a hospital, undergo the treatment and go home without a worry about the bills. It ought to be that easy. But ...

AUTOMOBILE COMPONENTS: Auto parts makers seek Govt support to tackle slump
New Delhi, Nov. 8 Faced with a downturn in passenger and commercial vehicles sales, the Automotive Components Manufacturers’ Association (ACMA) has petitioned the Centre to curb rising import of components and evolve special loan ...

EVENTS: Weekly News Round-up
Barack Obama emerged victorious over his Republican rival John McCain in the US presidential race on Tuesday and is set to take over as the 44th President of the United States in January 2009. He is America's fifth black senator, and from being ...

MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS & HOSPITALS: Narayana Hrudayalaya to expand overseas
Hyderabad, Nov. 8 It is ‘overseas calling’ for the Bangalore-based, Narayana Hrudayalaya Group of Hospitals. Its expertise in providing low-cost, hitech, affordable healthcare, especially in heart ailments successfully ...

ECONOMY: AP revokes order on Vizag-Kakinada industrial coastal corridor
The Andhra Pradesh Government has revoked its order (No. 34) relating to the development of a coastal industrial corridor between Visakhapatnam and Kakinada in the first phase, which is later to be extended to the other coastal ...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: Chandrayaan-1 enters lunar orbit
Bangalore, Nov. 8 The first Indian lunar craft crossed the big test and entered moon’s orbit on Saturday. Scientists commanding it from the Spacecraft Control Centre here made a 77-minute orbit manoeuvring exercise to put it within 500 ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: ‘Ball is in developers’ court’

National Housing Bank, the refinance and development institution to support the housing sector, is pushing for the supply of affordable housing. There is a core demand for housing which is, for now, slow because of the ...

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: ‘Uninsured individual a community health concern’
Bangalore, Nov. 8 A cross section of leaders from corporates and institutions reflected their consensus on the need for quality practices as the key for improving the competitiveness of India Inc on the concluding day of the three-day ...

PETROLEUM: LPG use rising in urban areas as kerosene usage falls
Since 2000, there has been a sharp rise in LPG use for cooking in urban areas in ...