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| GVFL picks up stake in iNurture | 24-NOV-09 |
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| Venture capital company, GVFL has announced an investment of Rs 11 crore in Bangalore-based iNurture Education Solutions Limited. Based out of Ahmedabad, the erstwhile Gujarat Venture Finance Limited made its sixth investment from the Rs 450-crore SME Technology Fund. |
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| Inox group chalks out Rs 150 cr to manufacture wind turbines | 24-NOV-09 |
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| Gujarat Fluorochemicals (GFL), India’s largest refrigeration gas producer and part of the $ 2 billion Inox group that has diversified interests in chemicals, engineering and entertainment, is all set to commission its Rs 150 crore turbine manufacturing facility in Una, Himachal Pradesh next month. |
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| Cane crushing to produce over 100 lakh tonnes | 23-NOV-09 |
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| Almost all the sugarcane factories have started cane crushing for the season. With crushing activity picking up, industry players estimate that around 100 lakh tonnes are likely to be crushed in 2009-10, while government has pegged the figure at 107 lakh tonnes. |
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| Gujarat may get trauma centres in 2 years | 23-NOV-09 |
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| The one day awareness workshop on accreditation of hospitals and health providers organised by FICCI, Gujarat and NABH, a constituent board of Quality Council of India witnessed the state health minister Jaynarayan Vyas announcing his plans to roll out trauma centres across the state in next two years. Addressing a gathering at the event, Vyas emphasised on adaption of quality care in the state as well across the country. "Concept of quality care should be taken care, just now – quality care, today, just now", he said. |
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| PDPU signs MoU with Georgia Institute of Technology, USA | 23-NOV-09 |
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| Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC)-promoted Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH), Atlanta, GA, USA for establishing Center for Excellence in Energy and faculty and student exchange programs. |
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| Engineering expo aims Rs 100 crore biz for SMEs | 22-NOV-09 |
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| Vadodara's small scale engineering units can expect to get a boost from the upcoming Machtech 2010, an industrial exhibition that is expected to get over 250 small scale units to interact with the big guns in the business. |
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| Now, Sebi on MNS radar | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) today asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to provide all the information in Marathi on its newly-launched website. |
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| Gujarat reserves lignite, manganese areas | 21-NOV-09 |
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| With a view to providing domestic fuel to the power projects run by the State PSUs, Gujarat government has resolved to reserve additional area having lignite resources for public sector companies of Gujarat government and for power generation joint venture with state utilities. |
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| Land acquisition in Gujarat less bloody | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Land disputes and displacement issues in Gujarat have been far less ‘bloody’ compared to states like Orissa and West Bengal. The credit for this, to an extent, goes to the long tradition of giving land at only market prices to industrial houses, with a similar compensation to land-losers, besides lesser interferences of the government in such matters. |
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| Cotton yield hits 4-yr low, dips 5.45% | 14-NOV-09 |
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| The country’s cotton yield has hit a four-year low in the current season, as the delayed monsoon disrupted sowing earlier. This is for the consecutive year that the country’s cotton output is estimated to slip below 30 million bales (1 bale = 170 kg). The cotton season starts from October and ends in September. |
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| Cargo vessel sinks in Arabian sea, all crew members safe | 13-NOV-09 |
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| A cargo vessel carrying soda ash consignment from Veraval Port to Calicut capsized after travelling 60 nautical miles into the Arabian sea between Jafrabad and Diu here today, Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) officials said. |
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| Heavy rainfall may dent export of major crops | 12-NOV-09 |
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| The heavy and incessant rain that has hit Maharashtra and Gujarat over the last three days, is all set to dent the export of cash crops such as grapes, pomegranates, alphonso mangoes and cashewnuts. Output of other crucial crops such as rice, sugarcane and cotton is also expected to suffer in Konkan, northern and western Maharashtra and southern Gujarat. |
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