Thursday, February 23, 2012

FRONT PAGE

50,000 applications for mining stuck with States

Banks undecided on lifeline to Kingfisher; airlines files new schedule

Does India need more airlines?

Bring excise, service tax back to pre-crisis level: PM's advisory panel

Etisalat shuts down India operations

SEBI eases advertising code for mutual fund industry

CORPORATE

Etios drives down luxury cab route

Price hikes halt cement demand recovery

Renewables Corner

Dunlop alleges labour indiscipline, suspends operations at Ambattur

Hero MotoCorp ties up with Eirk Buell Racing

Indian drug firms target African anti-malarial market

Singareni Collieries to ramp up output from underground mines

If we import, we will pitch for ‘landed cost' formula: Coal India chief

MARKETS

Cross-listing of Sensex, BRICS indices by April

Healthcare, finance sectors dominate BSE green index

MCX public issue subscribed 91% on Day 1

Sesa, Sterlite shares dip; cos play down merger plan

SEBI tells fund managers to evolve ‘fair' valuation of debt schemes

Today's Pick

corporate news

Raj TV scales 52-week high

SEBI announces lot sizes for SME public issues

BROKERS' CALL

Bhushan Steel announces 1:15 rights issue

NBCC public float likely next month

ECONOMY

Majority of medium, small units rely on debt financing: CII survey

No spectacular turnaround in growth likely: RBI

RBI not to interfere in banks lending to Kingfisher

Business class flyers shy away from Kingfisher

EPFO trustees fail to agree on Rs 1000/month pension

Airlines allowed to directly import ATF

2G: Court grants Ruias, Khaitans exemption from personal appearance

Make extra effort to meet tax target, Pranab tells CBEC

Outbound MICE activity likely to see strong growth

Gem, jewellery exports up 14% in rupee terms in April-January

More experts needed in military electronics: DRDO official

15-year Defence plan to be unveiled soon

Power producers seek preferential allotment of gas

Economic Advisory Council pegs 2012-13 growth rate at 7.5-8%

Attorney-General backs DoT views on roll-out obligation

MSMEs told to look for alternative funding sources

West Bengal may get first textile park

Dabbawalas' future bleak as gen next thinks beyond the box

D6 pulls down gas production for 14 {+t} {+h} straight month

Court allows foreign lawyers to fly in and out

SNF specialty chemical plant goes on stream in Vizag pharma city

OPINION

Letters

There's another side to the Norway episode

Paradigm shift in IT sector

A safe harbour for ports

Limits to what the Budget can achieve

Smoothening the sugar cycle

Being Indian in America

INFO-TECH

Is STPI losing sheen?

TESCO Hindustan Service looks at setting up centre overseas

Companies too can benefit from YouTube: Google

Toshiba unveils new laptops

Indian call centre in fake calls row in US

India tops world in generating spam

DoT, Finance Ministry spar over Budget allocation

AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITY

Summer is here

Higher output, slack exports squeeze tamarind

Seed prices cracking up too

Volume drops at Coonoor tea auction

Spot rubber gains with Japanese futures

Tanfed nominated to launch copra price support operations in TN

Rain, snow forecast for north-west in early March

Heavy arrivals pound turmeric

Profit-taking crushes castor futures

Seed shortage drives mustard oil to record

Rice unchanged on ample stocks

Limited offtake drags spot sugar

Pulses go off the boil on slack demand

LOGISTICS

Clearing the way

Govt has no jurisdiction to proceed against Italian naval personnel, Consul General tells court

MONEY & BANKING

Banks in a quandary over Kingfisher exposure

Canara Bank expects credit offtake to improve next fiscal

HDFC Bank launches mobile payment service

PNB board nod for preferential allotment of shares to LIC, Centre

National Australia Bank opens branch in India

MARKETING

FMCG companies try to cash in on exam fever

Pierre Cardin premium pens fail to ink in sales

Multiplex operators eye a bigger role in non-metros

Hospitals hire from hotels - for better service

Companies ‘Link In' to targeted marketing tools

Demand for surveillance systems to touch Rs 2,200 cr by 2015

Sony won over by creative pitch of Hakuhodo Percept

More momentum in hiring, says Naukri

Swedish bedmaker Hastens promises luxurious sleep

VARIETY

Pak biz capital riven by crime and violence

STATES

Angry lady

Popularising art

On the brink

Daylight plunder

Dangerous climb

Day-long hartal

Suicide attempt

IBM turns to smaller cities for expansion

McDonald's India opens 51st restaurant

Air Force hospital bags award

State govts must award more contracts to start-ups: Kiran Karnik

TN laptops order: Commercials didn't work out for us, says Dell

Heated debate in House after days of adjournments

Siva Sivani Institute of Management annual event

SmartTrak deploys tracking system for solar PV plants

Of investigations, officers and scams

Swedish firm scouting for tie-ups in healthcare

MTS expands in AP

Reliance's Samalkot power project ready for commissioning

Pepper shoots up on bullish reports

Bharti AXA eyes it big in Kochi

CII, NID host awareness drive on intellectual property rights

XLRI meet on financial inclusion

2 CITU leaders killed in Bengal

Power plants commissioned

Australia turns focus to South, keen on more bilateral trade

Now, an alternative to cement concrete block

Mangalore Central Excise collects Rs 4,960-cr duty in 2010-11

Mangalore varsity gets new facility on radiation technology

Maharashtra issues licences to 60 cos for fire safety audits

Most States endorse common entrance exam for engineering

PM reassures Mamata on Farakka, anti-terror body

BRPL grid sub-station in west Delhi

No ‘back channel' to steer sea rage case, says CM

Nielsen retains top tourism destination grade for Kerala

NeST, Mymo Wireless join hands in 4G tech initiative

Training for neo entrepreneurs apace, says Kerala Financial Corp

BRANDLINE

Leveraging the analytics advantage

“We've created a little bit of a mother brand”

IPL pads up for fifth innings

You want to buy a caaar?

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The upgrading consumer

Zen and the art of selling big bikes

The quest for cool summer strategies

Moving up the value chain

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