The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, July 14, 2009

GOVERNMENT

POLITICS: TN Govt to invest more in infrastructure
Plans to set up a ‘financial city’ near Chennai. Chennai, July 13 The Tamil Nadu Government plans to invest more in infrastructure development to be ready to exploit industrial investment growth when the economic ...

FOREIGN RELATIONS: New govts must use trade to resolve India-Pakistan problems
Official annual trade between the two countries is about $2 billion. With new governments in both India and Pakistan, there is a ‘window of opportunity’ once again to improve economic ties and the increased bilateral trade might well ...

POLITICS: Ministry renews pressure for autonomous debt management office
Pranab move to raise Govt borrowing target to Rs 4.51 lakh crore. New Delhi, July 13 Pressure is being mounted afresh on the Reserve Bank of India to hand over its function as manager of marketable debt to the proposed full-fledged debt ...

E-GOVERNANCE: Nilekani looks to do away with duplicates
CLEAR IDENTITY. Bangalore, July 13 “First I will have to go and find an office,” a bemused Mr Nandan Nilekani told an expectant media when asked about the responsibilities and challenges of his new ...

E-GOVERNANCE: ELCOT stepping up efforts to usher in m-governance
Chennai to host CeTIT-2009 on July 17, 18. Chennai, July 13 The Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) is in talk with various mobile service providers to provide the m-governance (developed by a private company) platform, an online ...

POLICY: Empowered Group of Ministers on Food Security constituted
New Delhi, July 13 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has approved the constitution of an Empowered Group of Ministers to consider issues concerning procurement , management of foodgrains’ stocks, revision of Central Issue Price ...

POLICY: Draft granite policy aims at transparency
Chennai, July 13 The State Government has come out with a draft policy for granite mining aimed at simplifying paper work, preventing legal complications, and enabling efficient exploitation of granite reserves in Tamil Nadu in a ...

POLICY: TN to unveil policies on IT in delivering services
Chennai, July 13 The Tamil Nadu Government plans to come out with a range of policies relating to information technology and use of IT in delivering services to the ...

POLITICS: Domestic fuel consumption to grow at its slowest
New Delhi, July 13 The domestic fuel consumption is projected to grow by 2.4 per cent to 136.61 million tonnes (mt) in 2009-10 against 133.4 mt in the previous fiscal, said the Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Mr Murli Deora, in the ...

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