The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 30, 2009

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

HEALTH: 50% of employees hit by slowdown-induced stress
CORPORATE WELLNESS. The worst fears of economists and social scientists have come true. The slowdown has steeply pushed up stress levels in over 50 per cent of the employees in the corporate sector. This has a telling impact on addiction levels, ...

CEMENT: Steel output declines in March; cement up 10%
Steel production has registered a 2.6 per cent dip during March, even as cement output continues to be buoyant, rising 10.1 per ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: Symbol allotment: SC snubs Election Commission
New Delhi: Even as the election process is under way, the Election Commission got an unpleasant surprise from the Supreme Court in two related cases concerning allotment of symbols to political parties. The first was on March ...

HOTELS: Gateway to a new brand
The hotel major wants its new business-class set of hotels to be unencumbered by the Taj connection.. Last September, a regular visitor to the Taj Garden Retreat hotel in the salubrious climes of Coonoor in the Nilgiri mountains would have been ...

GEMS & JEWELLERY: Gem, jewellery exports from eastern region up 43%
Kolkata, April 29 The gem and jewellery exports from the eastern region grew by 42.5 per cent to $932 million in 2008-09 ($654 million in 2007-08) as against the all-India growth of 1.45 per cent during the same period, Mr Pankaj ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: ‘New foreign trade policy may focus on sprucing up services exports’
New Delhi, April 29 With the country’s merchandise exports getting mired in the world economic slowdown rather distinctly, the focus on the new foreign trade policy (FTP) for the five-year period (2009-14) to be unveiled by the ...

PENSION PLANS: UTI to take Retirement Benefit Fund to 7 lakh working poor
The fund has invested 23% of its assets in equity. Mumbai, April 29 UTI Asset Management Company on Wednesday announced a tie-up with a livelihood promotion institution to take the UTI Retirement Benefit Fund to a targeted 7,00,000 ...

TOURISM: Tourism Dept plans a charm offensive
Move to promote Kerala in Russia. Thiruvananthapuram, April 29 Russia is the fastest growing market for Kerala’s tourism industry, said Dr V. Venu, Secretary-Tourism, Government of ...

EDUCATION: ‘No escaping globalisation today’
Chennai, April 29 In an address that gripped the attention of the students and their families and friends assembled in the convention hall of the Chennai Trade Centre here, Dr Shashi Tharoor, applauded the fifth batch of young managers from ...

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: Nasscom to press for STPI benefits
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) today avowed to lobby hard with the new government for not ending the fiscal incentives under the Software Technology Parks of India ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Cashew exports rise in value
Higher unit value makes up for drop in volume. Dependence on imported raw nuts continued to remain a perpetual phenomenon as there hasn't been any proper and consistent efforts to promote the cultivation of this crop in the country, official ...

HEALTH: Hog menace
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CINEMA: Malayalam film technicians to go on strike
Thiruvananthapuram, April 29 The Malayalam Cinema Technicians Association (MACTA) Federation, affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), will go on strike from the middle of next month in protest against denial of labour rights ...

HEALTH: HIFU treatment for cancer
Hyderabad, April 28 Dr Rajendra, an anaesthetist, took a routine test for a prostate problem. The result indicated cancer. A biopsy ...

HEALTH: Centre to raise Tamiflu stockpile
Mumbai, April 29 As swine flu claimed its first death outside Mexico, ground-zero for the flu, the Centre has decided to increase its stockpile of anti-influenza drug Tamiflu by another two million ...

HEALTH: AAI told to step up surveillance
New Delhi, April 29 With the swine flu virus spreading globally, the Government has now decided to enhance the surveillance and screening of air travellers at all 17 international airports around ...

RADIO/TV: BIG TV launching express service
Madurai, April 29 BIG TV, the DTH arm of Reliance ADA Group, is launching premium express service across India with the objective to cut down market response time as part of its after-sales service initiative in addressing customer queries ...

EDUCATION: Marine training institute
P lanners Group International, an approved manpower recruitment company, has started a training institute under the banner Pee Gee Marine Institute Training Centre with the objective of providing trained manpower to the marine industry. The ...