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Interest rates will remain attractive: Chidambaram
Emphasises attention to supply side of credit

Murthy among winners of leadership award
Award to Mallika Srinivasan of TAFE in the business category

BEML proposes to restructure business
Diversifying into technology

GoAir goes the whole hog to woo passengers
The airline will add five more aircraft to its fleet

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Pricol Travels ties up with UNIGLOBE
COIMBATORE: Pricol Travels Ltd. here has tied-up with UNIGLOBE Travel, a Vancouver-based single branch travel franchise company, and will now be known as UNIGLOBE Pricol Travel. Its Managing Director, Vikram Mohan, told presspersons here on ...

Exports cross $100 b
NEW DELHI: India's exports have for the first time crossed the magical figure of $100 billion in 2005-06, which ended on Friday. Achieving a growth rate of about 25 per cent over last year, exports have crossed the $100 billion-mark this ...

40 p.c. dividend on SBI Magnum Contra Fund
NEW DELHI: SBI Mutual Fund has announced a dividend of 40 per cent on its Magnum Contra Fund, an open-ended diversified equity scheme. The record date for the scheme is April 3, 2006, the company said in a release. ...

Inflation drops
NEW DELHI: Inflation fell to 4.06 per cent for the week ended March 18 from 4.28 per cent in the preceeding week, mainly due to cheaper food articles including vegetables and non-food ...

Reckitt Benckiser's new initiative
CHENNAI: Reckitt Benckiser (India) has launched `Dettol Surakshit Parivar' programme in Chennai. The programme aims to advocate good hygiene practices. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the Chairman and Managing Director, Chander ...

Rupee moves up
MUMBAI: The rupee rallied smartly by eight paise to close at 44.62/63 a dollar, buoyed by robust foreign portfolio investment inflows amid a retreating dollar overseas in a fairly active trading at the interbank foreign exchange ...

Servion Global expands
CHENNAI: Servion Global Solutions, a specialist in Customer Interaction Management (CIM) solutions, on Friday announced its strategic expansion plans. The company has moved to a new 11,000 sq. ft, three-storied facility in the IT corridor at ...

Nasscom signs pact with Dutch body
NEW DELHI: Nasscom has tied up with the Dutch Centre for promoting imports from developing countries (CBI) to enable small and medium businesses in Europe to outsource work to India. "The two organisations will work closely to provide BPO ...

Valliappan new ED of Vijaya Bank
CHENNAI: T. Valliappan, General Manager of Indian Bank, is taking over as Executive Director of Vijaya Bank on April 1. Mr. Valliappan joined Indian Bank as Probationary Officer in 1970 and served the bank in various capacities for nearly 36 ...

Nod for IOC's Paradip refinery complex
NEW DELHI: The board of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has given the green signal for the 15 million tonnes per annum grassroots refinery-cum-petrochemicals project at Paradip in ...

TVS Motor President retires
CHENNAI: C. P. Raman retired on Friday as President of TVS Motor Company. He served in that position for eight years. A release from the company said Mr. Raman "managed to steer the company through its erstwhile joint venture and was ...

Airtel Broadband launches NetXpert
BANGALORE: Airtel Broadband and Telephone Services on Friday launched Airtel NetXpert for its broadband customers in Bangalore. According to Prem Pradeep, CEO, Airtel Broadband, Karnataka, this has been brought to India for the first time and ...

India Road Network from TNT
BANGALORE: TNT has launched its India Road Network (IRN). The network will link over 140 cities and span across 32,000 km. With a commitment of investing 100 million Euros over five years, this launch makes TNT the first multi-national brand in ...

Airtel Broadband launches NetXpert
BANGALORE: Airtel Broadband and Telephone Services on Friday launched Airtel NetXpert for its broadband customers in Bangalore. According to Prem Pradeep, CEO, Airtel Broadband, Karnataka, this has been brought to India for the first time and ...

BOB hikes FCNR interest rates
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bank of Baroda (BOB) has increased the interest rate on FCNR deposits with effect from March 29. For dollar deposits, the rates are 5.15 per cent for one year, 5.13 per cent for two years and 5.11 per cent for periods ranging ...

State Bank of Travancore branch at Kalady
KOCHI: The 686th branch of State Bank of Travancore was opened at Kalady in Ernakulam district on March 30. The bank's general manager, G. Rama Mohan Rao, inaugurated the branch, which is under core banking solution. The Vice Chancellor of the ...

Clearing house privatisation opposed
KOCHI: Exployees of the Reserve Bank of India on Friday staged a protest against privatisation of clearing operations. They alleged that cheque clearing, hitherto being done by the national clearing cell of the RBI, was to be entrusted to a ...

Kancheepuram-Jaal fashion show
KOCHI: In connection with Jaal Tarang, a Kancheepuram-Jaal ensemble presented by Seematti in-house studio, will be staged every day from April 3 to April 12, says a ...

KCCL re-certified for ISO:9001
KANNUR: The quality system of Keltron Component Complex Ltd. (KCCL) has been recertified for ISO:9001 accreditation. A press release by the KCCL Managing Director, B. Sasidharan Nair, said here on Wednesday that the KCCL, a leading manufacturer ...

Edusat programme receiver
KOCHI: A receive only terminal (ROT), an electronic set-up for receiving the Edusat programmes, is available in the market. The ROT equipment is distributed by RR Electronics, Kochi. An ordinary model of the system costs Rs.5,666, according to ...

Change in Indian toll free number
NEW DELHI: From April 1, passengers contacting the Indian toll free number will be required to dial 1800 180 1407 from MTNL/BSNL telephones instead of the existing 1600 180 1407. The change is due to the change in all BSNL/MTNL series of numbers ...

Puma offers `2006 range' in India
The sportlifestyle company, Puma Sports, on Friday announced the launch of the 2006 range in India through its newly founded subsidiary, Puma Sports India, headquartered in Bangalore. The products represent the global range in traditional ...

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