The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 03, 2009

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

TOURISM: Centrum Group hopes to tap tourism potential in Kerala
Financial service provider opens office in Thiruvananthapuram. The Chairman of Kerala Tourism Development Corporation, Mr Cherian Philip, inaugurated the Thiruvananthpauram office of the Centrum Group, a leading financial services provider, here ...

SOCIAL SECURITY: Gap narrows between organised sector wages, per capita income
Number of insured persons with ESIC, contributions on the rise. Bangalore, Nov. 2 The organised sector workforce is no longer a wage island. The gap between organised sector wages and per capita income has been narrowing in recent years. It is ...

EMPLOYMENT: IIM-A summer placements begin
Ahmedabad, Nov. 2 Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad commenced its summer internship process on Monday with firms from Europe, the US, Australia, Asia-Pacific, Africa and West Asia coming to campus ...

ANTI-DUMPING: Definitive dumping duty on tyre vulcanisers from China recommended
Complaint launched by Larsen and Toubro. New Delhi, Nov. 2 The Designated Authority in the Commerce Ministry has recommended the imposition of a definitive anti-dumping duty on imported ‘tyre curing presses’, broadly known in trade ...

EDUCATION: T.A. Pai Institute wins SRM varsity biz competition
Chennai, Nov. 2 The team from the T.A. Pai Institute of Management, Manipal University, represented by Jim Kim and Priyank Daga, has won ‘BIZABIONA-2009’, an international business plan competition conducted by ...

WTO: Doubts over success of WTO meet
Mr Muralidhar Rao, Political Adviser to Bharatiya Janata Party, has expressed doubts over the success of the seventh Ministerial meeting of World Trade Organisation (WTO) due to be held in Geneva from November 30 to December ...

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: Capital inflows from EU recovering, FDI on the rise
Capital flows from the European Union (EU) are coming back to India and the foreign direct investment (FDI) is on the rise, a European Commission (EC) official ...

ECONOMY: India tops in consumer confidence
Global index jumps 86 points: Nielsen survey. Bangalore, Nov. 2 Runaway food prices are a concern, but that has not deterred the Indian consumer’s confidence, which ruled highest among 52 countries surveyed by The Nielsen Company in its ...

ECONOMY: India likely to achieve 7-8% growth next fiscal: Montek
The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, has expressed the hope that the country’s growth will be 7-8 per cent in ...

EDUCATION: San Diego State University ties up with PSG, GRG institutions
Delegates from San Diego State University visited the PSG and GRG Group of Institutions here on Monday to ink deals for ...

FOODS & FOOD PROCESSING: Centre to set up 30 mega food processing parks
Hyderabad, Nov. 2 With levels of food processing still hovering at 6 per cent, the Union Government is setting up 30 mega food processing parks, with at least one in each State, in ...

HEALTH: AP CM asks for vigil on dengue situation
Hyderabad, Nov. 2 The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Monday asked the Health Department officials to hasten measures to contain spread of dengue fever in ...

OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS: Dubai regulator’s proposal may violate aspects of FEMA
The Dubai Financial Services Authority has approached SEBI for allowing Dubai mutual funds to be sold in ...

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION: Reaching for the sky
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EVENTS: Workshops on results framework for govt depts
New Delhi, Nov. 2 The first in a series of six workshops on ‘Results Framework Documents’ for Government departments will be inaugurated by the Cabinet Secretary, Mr K.M. Chandrasekhar, here ...

EVENTS: Pranab to inaugurate economic editors’ meet
New Delhi, Nov. 2 The two-day annual economic editors’ conference will be inaugurated by the Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, here ...

EDUCATION: P.V. Kannan, MD, Micromax Systems; Jamal Institute of Management, Tiruchi
Tiruchi, Nov. 2 Management students have a pivotal role to play in transforming India’s youth into agents of industrial and economic growth, banking and industry leaders told a gathering of students at the Jamal Institute of ...

EDUCATION: Mindset that air travel is only for the rich should change: Gopinath
Founder of low cost airline, Air Deccan and Chairman and Managing Director of logistics company, Deccan 360, Capt G.R. Gopinath, on Monday said the domestic airline sector has run into hard times because the players were more interested in ...

HEALTH: El Labs’ food intolerance test
EI Lab Metropolis, Ernakulam, a medical laboratory chain, has introduced food intolerance test, the first in South India. The new testing method called Genenarrayt based on micro-array technology and developed by Cambridgeshire ...