The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, January 10, 2009

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TAMIL NADU: ‘Restructure IMF, World Bank’
Time to review global financial systems: Pratibha Patil. The President, Ms Pratibha Devisingh Patil, has stressed the need for restructuring the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on a broad basis. This is necessary as the global ...

GUJARAT: Gujarat may cancel allotment of land to Satyam’s IT SEZ
Gandhinagar, Jan. 9 With Mr B. Ramalinga Raju’s admission of account-fudging to the tune of Rs 7,000-plus crore over the last few years and uncertainties the controversy has kicked off, the GujaratGovernment is likely to cancel allotment ...

TAMIL NADU: Semiconductor Policy brings in 17 projects
Chennai, Jan. 9 Seventeen projects amounting to an investment of $31 billion (Rs 1,57,000 crore) have been received by the Government under the Semiconductor Policy, according to Mr A. Raja, Union Minister of Communications and ...

KERALA: Kerala opposes move to take NTPC plant into Central pool
Kerala has opposed the move to take the Kayamkulam plant of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) into the Central pool, which will force it to share the power from there with ...

KARNATAKA: Rs 10-cr projects for fisheries research
Mangalore, Jan. 9 The Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University has got more than Rs 10-crore-worth research and development projects under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), according to Dr Y. Basavaraju, ...

KARNATAKA: Karnataka plans to have 1,000 e-PCOs by March
Mangalore, Jan. 9 The e-PCO (public call office) initiative – which has been jointly launched by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Intel, Itz Cash and PCO Association – will be extended to 1,000 PCOs by the end of March, according ...

WEST BENGAL: Cambridge varsity looks to build links in India
Kolkata, Jan. 9 The University of Cambridge plans to expand its existing links and build new opportunities with academic, business and political communities in India, said Prof Alison Richard, the University’s Vice-Chancellor, here ...

WEST BENGAL: Rly Board downgrades key outfit in Kolkata
The post of Executive Director Rail Movement (EDRM) has been abolished. The office of the Directorate of Rail Movement will now be headed by a ...

KARNATAKA: More flights from Mangalore to Dubai and Kuwait
Considering the demand from passengers to Gulf countries, Air India Express, the low-cost carrier of Air India, has decided to increase schedule of flights from Mangalore to Dubai and ...

TAMIL NADU: Pune builders seek reduction in realty taxes
Pune, Jan. 9 The municipal corporation here has nullified the affordability factor brought in by reduction of interest rates and levies of material by hiking premiums, said the President of Promoters and Builders Association ...

WEST BENGAL: Don’t seize 2-stroke auto: HC
A Division Bench of Calcutta High Court comprising Mr S.S. Nijjar, Chief Justice, and Mr Justice P.C. Ghose on Friday directed that no two-stroke auto could be seized by the authorities until further orders. The Court also asked the ...

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