Each could garner business worth as much as Rs 3,000 crore

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The Uttar Pradesh Export Corporation Limited (UPECL), a state government undertaking engaged in the development and marketing of handicrafts and handloom items produced in Uttar Pradesh, is set to

Lucknow chikan to get patented

Kolkata-based small and medium Bengali book publishers have been badly hit due to the uncertainty over a venue for the annual Kolkata Book Fair.


Future tense for Kolkata publishers

The Federation of Indian Small and Medium Enterprise (FISME) has invited proposals from consultancy firms to carry out a study that would, for the first time, identify the number and location of

Study sought on SME labs

Aims at providing Rs 66 crore under this head during the current fiscal, and plans to set up a multi-dimensional resource centre in Bhubaneswar.


SIDBI plans to focus on micro-finance in Orissa

Advance authorisation can be issued either to manufacturer exporter or merchant exporter tied to supporting manufacturers for physical exports. 


Supplies to SEZ are physical exports

National Bulk Handling Corporation Limited (NBHC), a group company of Financial Technologies (India) Limited (FTIL), is an end-to-end solutions provider in warehousing and bulk handling of

`Our focus area for 2008-09 will be rural areas`

Cairn India, which has discovered the largest oil field in the country in Rajasthan, after ONGCs Bombay High discovery in 1974, and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have opened an enterprise

Cairn sets up training programme for SMEs

The $100-million fund, which has the option to raise a further $200 million, will benefit small and medium enterprises engaged in defence production


Venture fund for defence firms

Taking quality as the topmost priority and further to compete in the global market, the northern region companies, especially the SMEs sector, are focusing on quality control by implementing TQM

Quality: The new mantra for small firms

Envisages generation of one million direct and indirect opportunities 


TN chalks out new MSME policy

Development of software falling under Information TechnologyService is not taxable


Modifying software is a service

To encourage the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India towards higher adoption of information technology Microsoft India, in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have announced the

Microsoft, PwC awards  for small firms in India

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs, or companies with up to 999 employees) in India are likely to spend $9.7 billion on information technology (IT) infrastructure in 2008, up 22 per cent over 2007,

Small businesses spending big on VPN, firewalls

If the additional duty is not levied, domestic producers (who do pay VAT) can become less competitive vis-`-vis imports.

Cenvat creates level playing field for domestic producers

&nbsp;We are merchant exporters. We had issued CT1 form to our supporting manufacturer, who cleared the goods without excise duty payment.

Furnishing proof of exports

To encourage micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the state to adopt modern cutting edge technology, the draft MSME development policy of the Orissa government has proposed the launch of an Orissa technology upgradation fund&#39;.

Orissa MSME policy for technological upgrade

For our imports, the seller has demanded 40 per cent advance and balance 60 per cent against fax Bill of Lading.

Banks can remit advance payment up to $1 million

Bangalore-headquartered CII Institute of Quality, which has been promoting the cause of quality over the last two decades, has developed a simple yet comprehensive excellence model.

CII plans excellence model for SMEs

The sports industry has not benefited from the export sops announced in the Union Budget, as a thorough examination of these sops suggests that the labour-intensive industry is still grappling with

Export sops no balm for ailing sports industry

The sewing machine industry in Ludhiana, comprising 400-odd tiny small units, and which already was in a shambles, has been severely hit by rising steel prices.


Sewing machine industry in tattersas costs soar

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