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Manufacturing powers March industrial growth 13.5%: Industrial output grew 13.5 per cent in March, the sixth straight month of double-digit
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Corus unveils £60-m plan to cut emission at Welsh plant: Corus, the British subsidiary of Tata Steel, on Wednesday launched a £60-million programme to cut emissions at its plant in the Welsh town of Port
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Tamil Nadu — a hub of hubs: Home to vehicle manufacturers Ford, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Renault-Nissan and BMW, on the passenger cars side and Ashok Leyland and Daimler on the commercial side, Tamil Nadu is a well-known automotive
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A magnet for foreign companies: Tamil Nadu has long known to attract investments from multinational corporations. Long before liberalisation, when foreign companies could only form joint ventures, several big global companies joined hands with partners in Tamil
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A safety net for poorest of the poor: For decades, Tamil Nadu has been a welfare state. The legendary Kamaraj, as Chief Minister, conceived the noon-meal scheme for children, which served the dual purpose of ensuring nutrition to children and checking school drop-out
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Ration cards: 1.1 crore biometric samples found to be duplicate: The Civil Supplies Department in Andhra Pradesh has identified 1.1 crore duplicate registrations during the ongoing process of creating the iris database for 5.8 crore
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Tyre dealers blame industry oligopoly for price hikes: Even as the country's tyre manufacturers have been making a case for jacking up prices by 25 per cent and blaming the natural rubber growers by forming a cartel to push up prices of natural rubber, the main input for the tyre segment, the tyre
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Two more process centres coming to improve taxpayer services: The Central Board of Direct Taxes plans to set up two more central processing centres (CPC) — one each in Ahmedabad and Faridabad (National Capital Region) — to improve taxpayer service, the CBDT Chairman, Mr S. S. N. Moorthy, said
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CM convenes all-party meet to settle Kinalur road issue: The Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, will convene an all-party meeting here in a bid to resolve the issues over building of a four-lane approach road to the proposed industrial park at Kinalur in Kozhikode
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Calcutta Business School first batch records full placement: Calcutta Business School (CBS), promoted by city-based business groups, has achieved 100 per cent placement record for the first batch of students graduating in March this
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New policy soon for procurement from small, medium units: Mr Dinsha J. Patel, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), has said that the Government's new procurement policy from the sector is expected to get the Cabinet's nod by June
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CBWE to train people in rural, unorganised sectors: The Central Board for Workers Education (CBWE) will convert 10,000 people in rural areas from “no earners to bread-earners” as part of a nationwide drive to improve quality of life and spread awareness about total quality
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Dinesh Dalmia bail plea quashed: A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail prayer of Mr Dinesh Dalmia, DSQ Software promoter, in connection with the 2001 Calcutta Stock Exchange scam. Mr Dalmia is the prime accused in the fraud case and is in the
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Q4 results: A mixed bag for cement cos: Players who were able to realise higher prices did well as they managed to set off the rise in input costs against their realisations. Others, however lost the
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Hotel industry sees room for big growth in TN: Mr Shabin Sarvotham, General Manager, Radisson Resorts – Temple Bay, a property owned by Chennai-based GRT Hotels, sits back from a sales call. After a sip of the watermelon juice from a tall glass – expertly covered with a tissue
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India will grow faster than IMF estimates, says Pranab: The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, believes India's economic growth would surpass the IMF's projections in 2010 and
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Big corporates script Tamil film plans: The market size of the Tamil film industry is estimated to have crossed Rs 800 crore in terms of total revenue generated by films during the 2009-2010 fiscal. Of this 65 per cent came from big-budget films, while the rest from small-budget
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Coimbatore — buzzing with activity again: The smile is back on the faces of entrepreneurs of Coimbatore's engineering industries, which were reeling under the impact of several adverse factors such as global and domestic economic slowdown and high financial costs this time last year, as
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Towering ahead:
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Keeping the poor well fed: The biggest problem facing India is the raging of food inflation. It is not just that it affects the poor badly, which is a major concern, but the impact of the problem runs much deeper than that. It affects the purchasing power of people —
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