The Hindu Business Line : Friday, March 20, 2009

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MAHARASHTRA: Slump dogs Dharavi
Asia’s largest slum and its enterprising dwellers, who reportedly churn out Rs 4,000 cr business each year, grapple with recession and redevelopment.. The only light in this small and soot-filled room comes from the glow of smouldering ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Voting at the press of a button
Hyderabad, March 19 In the 1989 general elections, select constituencies were used to try out a new gadget: The Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) that even then caught the fancy of the ...

KARNATAKA: Comat Tech launches job training for rural youth
To cover areas such as sales, communication and computer. Bangalore, March 19 Bangalore-based Comat Technologies, which has been in the business of citizen services delivery for the last three years with the Karnataka Government as its anchor ...

KERALA: 14% growth in domestic tourist arrivals in Kerala
In 2008, for the first time in over a decade, domestic tourist arrivals to Kerala registered two-digit ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: VisionSpring looking at expanding programme in AP
Hyderabad, March 19 VisionSpring (India), the subsidiary of a New York-based International NGO, is looking at expanding its programme to three or four more districts in Andhra Pradesh within the next ...

OTHER STATES: Ansal puts Gurgaon, Greater Noida IT SEZ projects on hold
To wait for elections to get over and decide on course of action. New Delhi, March 19 Real estate company Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Ltd on Wednesday said its two IT SEZs, in Gurgaon and Greater Noida, are on ‘hold’ till the ...

OTHER STATES: Varun must prove video was doctored: CEC
Kolkata: It is up to Mr Varun Gandhi to prove that the video showing him making inflammatory anti-Muslim comments has been doctored, the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr N. Gopalaswami, told media here ...

OTHER STATES: Sikkim’s Haat bazaars ‘re-opened’ for election meetings
Gangtok, March 19 To the relief of political parties in Sikkim, the State Elections Department has removed the bar on holding political meetings at Haat bazaars that sell rural ...

TAMIL NADU: Dunlop union leaders to go on indefinite fast
Chennai, March 19 The union leaders and office bearers of the Dunlop Factory Employees Union at Ambattur are to go on an indefinite fast from Friday demanding final settlement for ...

KERALA: Bharti AXA begins Kerala operations
Kochi, March 19 Bharti AXA General Insurance Company Ltd has announced the launch of its business operations in Kerala by opening its first office in ...

TAMIL NADU: Madurai offers good scope for mall developers
Madurai, March 19 According to builders in the city, Madurai is waiting to join the big league. It has the potential to pay and buy. But there are no suppliers as yet on the ...

WEST BENGAL: ‘Non-Cong, non-BJP policies needed to push economy forward’
Kolkata, March 19 Veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Mr Gurudas Dasgupta feels the anti-industrial stance adopted by the Opposition combine of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress in West Bengal will boomerang ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Tebma Shipyards seeks to invest in AP
Tebma Shipyards Ltd, a Chennai-based company, is looking for an opportunity to invest in a project in Andhra Pradesh, either at Visakhapatnam or some other ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Ram Charan Teja becomes face of ‘fizzier’ Pepsi
Hyderabad, March 19 PepsiCo on Thursday announced it has signed up Telugu film actor Ram Charan Teja as its brand ambassador. The actor will be featured along with Deepika Padukone in a series of TV commercials to support the launch of a ...

KERALA: Pepper falls on liquidation
Kochi, March 19 The pepper futures market declined on Thursday on technical ...

KARNATAKA: Hunter Douglas’ India plans
Bangalore, March 19 Hunter Douglas, the Dutch window-dressing company, plans to add nine more exclusive showrooms or galleries, as it calls them, in the country by the end of ...

GUJARAT: United Bank signs pact with IIM-A
Ahmedabad, March 19 United Bank of India has signed a memorandum of understanding worth Rs 2 crore with the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad, to set up a ‘Union Bank Chair Professor of ...

TAMIL NADU: A. Srihari, Director, Career Track Consulting; Bharathidasan University, Tiruchi
‘Multi-skilling is key differentiator’. Chennai, March 19 Students should realise that the process of learning does not stop with passing out of the college. It continues throughout the professional life ...

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