The Hindu Business Line : Friday, July 24, 2009

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

ECONOMY: Infrastructure sector grows 6.5% in June
Coal, cement, power put up good performance. New Delhi, July 23 Green shoots, budding sprouts or whatever else you may call it, an economic recovery does seem under ...

PETROLEUM: Oil refiners sold more, lost more in June as demand soared
Mumbai, July 23 June was a tough period for the oil marketing companies from the viewpoint of mounting losses on subsidised fuels such as petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene. It was a month when demand for petrol and diesel literally ...

GEMS & JEWELLERY: When imitation is precious
The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, should be complimented for hiking the Customs duty on imported gold and silver. It was an overdue fiscal measure and should bring considerable revenue for the exchequer, given the country’s ...

INTERVIEW: ‘GST still appears a distant dream’
A number of issues need to be addressed, say tax experts. Bangalore, July 23 Considering the complexity of issues that need to be addressed, introduction of the goods and services tax from next year appears to be difficult said the President of ...

RURAL DEVELOPMENT: A village in good health
Two doctors fell in love, married and went on to heal a village in Maharashtra. Their services are now emulated by the National Health Mission.. About 200 km from the bustling IT city of Pune lays a village strategically located at the boundary ...

HOTELS: Nawabi food chain
Small, modest outlets in Lucknow dish out some of the richest cuisine that harks back to the city’s glorious past.. Lucknow, the city of Nawabs, is famous for not only its tehzeeb, tameez and nafasat (refinement) but also for the variety ...

POWER: Southern region continues to face power shortage
Suffers peaking deficits despite good rains. Bangalore, July 23 Despite the monsoon pick-up, the southern region continues to reel under ...

FOREIGN TRADE: Bangladesh welcomes Indian cos into SEZs
Recently in Dhaka, The Bangladesh Government has invited Indian companies to set up operations in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) being planned by the ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Focus on transportation and mobility solutions to achieve growth: Experts
Kochi, July 23 Speakers at the one-day workshop on ‘Infrastructure in the Time of Economic Crisis’, organised by the Kerala chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry stressed the need to focus on transportation and ...

EXIM POLICY: New foreign trade policy to be unveiled next month
New Delhi, July 23 The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr Anand Sharma, has said that a new foreign trade policy addressing the problems faced by exporters would be unveiled in the second half of ...

EDUCATION: Gland Pharma Chairman’s foundation to start college
Hyderabad, July 23 Andhra Pradesh, which has 263 pharma colleges, is all set to add one more this academic ...

TOURISM: Kerala to hold partnership tourism fairs
The Kerala Tourism will hold ‘partnership fairs’ in 12 European countries in an effort to popularise the tourism potential of the State and thereby increase the inflow of foreign tourists. During the current year, the Department ...

EVENTS: Dubai to host Indian trade expo in Jan
Hyderabad, July 23 With Dubai now becoming the third largest trading partner for India, after US and China, in terms of volumes, the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) is all set to host ‘The India Trade Exhibition’ in ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Panel nod for 15 highway projects
The Public-Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) has approved 15 highway projects worth Rs 15,560.5 ...

EMPLOYMENT: Placements for UoH students
The slump in the job market seems to have had little impact on the students graduating from the University of Hyderabad (UoH), here. About 73 per cent of the 84 Computer Science students got placed in top software companies such as IBM ...

EVENTS: VETA seminar
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Columnists: • B Venkatesh • C Gopinath • Bhanoji Rao • P.V. Indiresan