The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 05, 2009

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MAHARASHTRA: 26/11: GIC hopes to settle hotels' claims by March
Rs 100-150 cr inflows into terror pool likely. The insurance claims of the three Mumbai hotels — Oberoi, Taj and Trident — damaged in the 26/11 terror attacks, are expected to be settled from the terror insurance pool by March 2010, ...

OTHER STATES: M.P. makes up for deficit wheat sowing
Area under other rabi crops also up in the State. Wheat sowing is lagging behind in major States, barring Madhya Pradesh (M.P.), ...

TAMIL NADU: Mahindra World City to expand presence in Tamil Nadu
Concept to be taken to other centres in the country. At Mahindra World City (MWC) the ‘work part' is over and we are now concentrating on the home and leisure part, says Ms Sangeetha Prasad, COO, MWC Developers Ltd, as a senior executive ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: ‘Thermal power plants must set up cement units to dispose fly ash'
Private companies, or the public sector ones, generating thermal power will be well-advised to set up downstream cement units to dispose of fly ash, which is proving to be a major ecological hazard, according to Mr George Mathew, the Chairman ...

KERALA: Responsible tourism initiative gaining acceptance at community level
Responsible tourism (RT) initiative of Kerala Tourism has received further impetus with the community turning more receptive to the project being implemented on a pilot basis in four key destinations in ...

OTHER STATES: Ritesh Jain, Director, T.I.M.E Institute, Ghaziabad; Mewar Institute, Vasundhra, Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh).
Interviewers generally end up asking unimportant and irrelevant questions because after interviewing many candidates through the day, they don't have any questions left, said Mr Ritesh Jain, Centre Director, T.I.M.E. Ghaziabad, ...

TAMIL NADU: CII seeks support for better Bangalore infrastructure
Stresses on need for widening, re-laying Coimbatore-Mettupalayam road. While thanking the Union Transport Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, for agreeing to expedite the road widening work on NH 47 from Chengapalli to Walayar, Mr Ravi Sam, Chairman, CII ...

KARNATAKA: Sai Exports to invest Rs 560 cr in Shimoga textile parks
Bangalore-based Sai Exports, a garment manufacturing company, will set up a textile park on 250 acres in Shimoga, the home district of the Chief Minister, Mr ...

WEST BENGAL: West Bengal eyeing joint venture to develop river tourism
Buoyed by the success of the Ganga river cruise, the first in India along the lines of international standard cruises on the Nile in Egypt and the Irrawady in Burma, the West Bengal Government is inviting joint venture partners to set up ...

KERALA: IDBI Fortis registers 74% growth in six months
Despite the fluctuations in the stock market, IDBI Fortis Life Insurance Company has registered 74 per cent growth in first premium collections in the first six months of the current fiscal against the corresponding period ...

KERALA: Traders oppose alignment survey for Kochi Metro
Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a few other trade organisations have threatened to keep away from the Grand Kerala Shopping Festival here in protest against the ongoing survey works at MG Road to acquire land for the proposed ...

KERALA: India IT summit to be held in Thiruvananthapuram on Dec 10
Leading industry experts such as Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Mr Vic Bhagat, CIO, GE Corporate, Mr Jeby Cherian, Director, Strategy, IBM India, Mr Paul Coby, CIO, British Airways, UK, Mr ...

KERALA: ‘Scratch and win' scheme a big draw at GKSF
The Grand Kerala Shopping Festival, an initiative of the State Tourism Department for promoting trade and commerce in the State, is getting good response to its ‘scratch and ...

KERALA: Govt urged to study Dubai crisis impact
The Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called upon Central and State Governments to make a realistic assessment of the impact of the debt crisis in Dubai on the ...

TAMIL NADU: No writ petition maintainable against co-op: HC
A co-operative society is not a State within the meaning of Article 2 of the Constitution, and hence, a writ petition is not maintainable against such a society, the Madras High Court ...

KARNATAKA: Vasan reviews New Mangalore Port projects
The Union Shipping Minister, Mr G.K. Vasan, visited the New Mangalore Port ...

KERALA: Handcrafted marvels
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KERALA: Water carnival
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KARNATAKA: Science on wheels
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KERALA: ‘Composites tech set to enter a new exciting orbit'
The Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Mr P.S. Veeraraghavan, has said that the composites technology is set to enter an exciting new orbit with the migration of nano technology from laboratory ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Bajaj Allianz's tax-planning campaign
Bajaj Allianz has launched ‘Meet-Save-Smile' a tax campaign using a hi-tech van. The van, christened as ‘tax emergency van', will travel across the city to disseminate information ...

TAMIL NADU: Muthoot staff training centre
The Kerala-based Muthoot Group is setting up its regional staff training centre for Tamil Nadu at Madurai. The centre is to be launched during the last week of December, Mr Jeorge Jacob Muthoot, Joint Managing Director of the Group, ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Management meet valedictory
Siva Sivani Institute of Management (SSIM) is organising ‘Samanvay 09' a national inter-collegiate management meet on December 4 and 5. The valedictory of the meet would be held at its campus on Saturday at 5 pm. Dr Pritam Singh, ...

KERALA: Pepper futures continue to fall
Pepper futures continued its fall on Friday on bearish operations that created a selling pressure, pulling ...

OTHER STATES: ISB course for senior executives
The Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business has announced the launch of a post graduate programme in management for senior executives. The programme will target senior executives with an average work experience of ...

KARNATAKA: Sethuraman, consultant, and Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, Founder and Chairman of Al-Ameen Group of Institutions
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is presumed to be the most important tax reform initiative since India's Independence by experts. It is expected that this reform, which is likely to be introduced from April 2010, would provide significant ...

KERALA: Cochin Chamber office-bearers
The 152nd annual general meeting of the Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry has elected Mr Anand Menon, Chief General Manager of KSE Ltd, as President of the Chamber for the year 2009-10. Mr P. Narayanan, Partner, Chakiat Agencies, ...

KERALA: ‘FTA will reverse progress'
The Chief Minister, Mr V. S. Achuthanandan, has said that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) would only reverse the steady progress the State has made from a being mute witness to ...

KERALA: Kerala Govt directive on mobile towers
The State Government has issued fresh directions for grant of permits for construction of mobile towers in the wake of a spate of complaints of varied nature lodged by members of the public at various places in the State, an official ...

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