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<copyright>Copyright 2008 The Hindu Business Line</copyright>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>

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<category>Non-conventional Energy</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751582300.htm</link>
<title>Wind turbines provide major relief to TNEB</title>
<description>Feeding nearly a sixth of the total electricity generated  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Anti-dumping</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752141300.htm</link>
<title>TV makers oppose move to levy dumping duty on colour picture tubes</title>
<description>New Delhi, May 16 The Consumer Electronic and Appliances Manufacturers Association (CEAMA) has opposed the Government&#8217;s proposal to levy a hefty anti-dumping duty on imports of colour picture tubes.The anti-dumping cell had ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Automobiles</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051750980300.htm</link>
<title>Mercedes, JCB India fill in excise revenue shortfall</title>
<description>Drop in realisations from Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Cement</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051750960300.htm</link>
<title>New capacity coming up may see a drop in cement prices</title>
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<category>Economy</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752131300.htm</link>
<title>CMIE retains GDP growth forecast at 9.5%</title>
<description>Private economic research firm, CMIE, has retained its GDP growth projection at 9.5 per cent for the current fiscal, despite fears of high inflation and slowdown in industrial output. In its May issue of the monthly review, CMIE said, ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Environment</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751242300.htm</link>
<title>Kerala plans  &#8216;our tree&#8217;  campaign</title>
<description>The Kerala Government will launch an &#8216;our tree&#8217; campaign on the World Environment Day on June 5 with the objective of spreading greenery in the State to ward off the effects of global warming. The campaign will feature ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Health</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752072300.htm</link>
<title>Govt gets ready to build  Health City in Hyderabad</title>
<description>Project cost pegged at Rs 8,000 crore  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Health</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751312300.htm</link>
<title>Dermatology meet from today</title>
<description>Cuticon Kerala-2008, annual conference of the Kerala branch of the Indian Association of dermatologists, venereologists and leprologists, will be held here on May 17 and 18. Cuticon Kerala is organised by East Zone Dermatology Club and ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Hotels</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051750930300.htm</link>
<title>Lanco Hills signs up for Grand Hyatt  in Hyderabad</title>
<description>Hyderabad, May 16  Lanco Hills Technology Park, part of the Lanco group, has signed up with affiliates of Global Hyatt Corporation for a 400-room Grand Hyatt, which will be opened by early 2011.This will be Grand Hyatt&#8217;s second ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Petroleum</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751180600.htm</link>
<title>Govt likely to issue  Rs 35,000 cr of oil bonds</title>
<description>Sale of holdings by refineries results in widening of spreads  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Power</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752210100.htm</link>
<title>Power shortage makes cos rely  on liquid fuel captive plants</title>
<description>Little option as energy from naphtha-fired plants is more expensive  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Steel</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751730200.htm</link>
<title>Auto part makers hit by rising input prices</title>
<description>Say steel price cuts not for grades used by them  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Textiles</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751552300.htm</link>
<title>Spinners oppose export incentive for cotton</title>
<description>Coimbatore, May 16  The small scale spinning industry has criticised the unbridled export of raw cotton allowed from the country at the cost of the domestic spinning sector. The mounting export has reduced the availability of raw cotton ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Textiles</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751562300.htm</link>
<title>Rising cotton, yarn prices: Textile  producers down shutters for a day</title>
<description>Coimbatore, May 16 Textile production in key weaving clusters of Karur, Erode and Coimbatore was hit today with several regional textile bodies in these places observing a one-day production stoppage.The weavers are concerned over the ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Textiles</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051753082300.htm</link>
<title>Taiwan textile fair in Tirupur</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Travel &amp; Places</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051753102300.htm</link>
<title>Passport applications piling up</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Water</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751942300.htm</link>
<title>&#8216;Pvt-public partnerships in water taking off&#8217;</title>
<description>Hyderabad, May 16 While public private partnership (PPP) model is common in most sectors, the water sector is just opening up to this idea.&#8220;PPP in the water sector has been just initiated and a a beginning has been made by the ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Education</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752002300.htm</link>
<title>IETE to add more courses</title>
<description>Hyderabad, May 16  The Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) is in the process of expanding its education services and recently secured nod from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University for a post-graduate course ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Education</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751952300.htm</link>
<title>Packaging institute to open 2 more centres</title>
<description>Hyderabad, May 16 The Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) is looking at opening two more centres in Ahmedabad and Guwahati during the present 11th Five-Year Plan.&#8220;Looking at the growth in the packaging industry it was felt that ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Education</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051753072300.htm</link>
<title>IPE plans MBA programme</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Industry Associations</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751292300.htm</link>
<title>Coins dispatched to Mangalore</title>
<description>The Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has said that Reserve Bank of India has dispatched Rs 70 lakh of currency coins to Dakshina Kannada district. A press release said here that KCCI had asked the RBI to release coins to the ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Science &amp; Technology</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751612300.htm</link>
<title>INSA award for scientist</title>
<description>Dr P. Senthil Kumar, scientist, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), here has been selected for the award of INSA Medal for young scientist (2008). The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) award is in recognition of his contributions ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>WTO</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752121300.htm</link>
<title>India against converting Doha Round into market access exercise for rich</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Rural Development</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751920400.htm</link>
<title>Rural BPOs set to grow, says Karnik</title>
<description>Hyderabad, May 16  Rural BPO (business process outsourcing) companies are poised to proliferate in the country with over 50 centres coming up, majority of them in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, according to the former President of Nasscom, Mr ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Rural Development</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752042300.htm</link>
<title>GramIT to set up 10 more centres</title>
<description>To hire 2,000 more from villages in the State  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Regulatory Bodies &amp; Rulings</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752240100.htm</link>
<title>Govt defers decision on PepsiCo&#8217;s  plea against divestment condition</title>
<description>Information sought on Dubai co in proposed DLF Limitless venture  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Exports &amp; Imports</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051752240101.htm</link>
<title>Basmati export duty difficult to absorb, says Saudi chamber</title>
<description>Plea to reconsider $220/tonne duty  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Exports &amp; Imports</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051751200600.htm</link>
<title>ECGC, United India tie up  to offer free marine cover</title>
<description>Chennai, May 16 Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) on Friday entered into an agreement with fellow-public sector insurance company, United India, to offer free marine cover to its exporter-customers.The marine cover will be an ...  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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<category>Exports &amp; Imports</category>
<link>http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/05/17/stories/2008051750271400.htm</link>
<title>US Govt urged to curb shrimp imports on food safety</title>
<description>Shrimp trade charges USFDA with failing to ensure quality controls  </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008</pubDate>
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