In their basket of offerings, 60% will be consumer and perishable food items

India got 63 FDI applications for retail foray

BS Reporter

The impact will be limited because TDP is not supporting TRS

Andhra Pradesh: No-confidence motion admitted

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The bank is also planning to install ATMs at all its branches during the next fiscal

AP grameena bank opens 135 ultra small branches in a day

Will take stringent action against officials helping illegal Bangladeshi migrants in obtaining PAN cards, driving licences

Maharashtra govt to act against contractors employing Bangladeshis

Press Trust of India

Operations have been conducted on the Ahmedabad-based group involved in sale of plotted land and multi-level marketing

I-T search, seizure on MLM group

Churches across Goa will observe March 19 as a day of prayer for the new Pope, when he will inaugurate his ministry in the Vatican

Goa churches to observe special mass for new Pope

The govt has initiated a state-wide survey of the slums and mud-houses

Gujarat govt to build 120K homes for poor

Says the minorities are given second class citizen treatment by BJP-led govt

Govt discriminating against minorities, alleges Goa NCP

State's health minister says that nearly 1.5 cr children from Gujarat are covered under the SHP this year

Gujarat govt may include bone marrow transplant in SHP

Deal valued at Rs 200 cr; Parenteral Drugs has also accorded its consent to the transaction as the holding company

Parenteral Drugs to sell unit to Fresenius Kabi

The court also issued direction to the state govt to refund the cess already collected from the industrial units preferably within four months from the date of receipt of court order copy with simple interest of 8%

Gujarat industrial players get relief from green cess

LTE, marketed as 4G LTE is a standard for wireless communication of high speed data for mobile phones and data terminals

Videocon to roll out 4G LTE services in Gujarat by Dec

Newsmaker: PNC Menon

The German company wants to launch a truck every month for the next year-and-a-half, but gaining market share won't be easy

For Daimler, it's time to step on the gas

Sri City and Elcina signed MoU in this regard on Thursday

Electronics hardware cluster to come up in Sri City

Mysore Railway Station, built by the then Mysore State Railway under the patronage of Mysore Maharajas, has been adjudged tourist-friendly. "It has won the National Tourism Award under the category "Tourist-friendly Railway Station for the year 2011-12," said South Western Railway Sr.Divisional Commercial Manager Anup Dayanand Sadhu.The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, presents national tourism awards to various segments of travel and tourism industry every year. The awards are presented in recognition of the performance in their respective fields and also to encourage healthy competition with an aim to promoting tourism. President Pranab Kumar Mukharjee will give away the awards in New Delhi on March 18. Vinod Kumar, Divisional Railway Manager, South Western Railway, Mysore and Sadhu will receive the award.The Ministry of Tourism selects one station every year under the category and the selection is based on creation of tourist friendly infrastructure and other amenities."The

Mysore rly station is now tourist friendly

Undeterred by its poor show in the just-concluded urban local bodies polls in Karnataka, former chief minister and KJP supremo B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday said his party was capable of emerging as a strong regional outfit. The state was in an urgent need of a strong regional party and Karnataka Janata Paksha would fill the void, said Yeddyurappa, whose outfit damaged the prospects of ruling BJP in the ULB polls but failed to establish its credentials as a major force in its first electoral test since he quit BJP last November.Addressing elected and defeated KJP candidates of the ULB polls, he said it was right time for a regional party to take charge in Karnataka and address issues and protect interests of the people, which previous governments "failed" to do.  "I want central leaders to run to me to seek support as they do with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi." 	Yeddyurappa also said he was holding talks with large sections of people including le

KJP can be a strong regional party: BSY

Financial Software and Systems (FSS), a Rs 600 crore payment systems company, is close to raising $200 million through the private equity and debt route to fuel its expansion plans. The Chennai-based privately held company which offers a bouquet of services in the areas of electronic payment, financial transaction processing solutions and services, had earlier raised three rounds of private equity infusion from funds managed by Carlyle, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Jacob Ballas Capital India. While the debt fund-raise of Rs 750 crore is understood to have been finalised, the equity infusion from a private equity fund is expected to be in by first quarter of next financial year.Nagaraj V Mylandla, Founder & MD, FSS confirmed to Business Standard, that the Rs 750 crore debt has been wrapped and details of the same will be shared shortly. "We have been pretty much low on debt for the past many years and this is the first time around we have raised this quantum of debt. Over the

FSS Technologies to raise $200 million to fuel global expansion plans

Kerala Tourism posted an 11 per cent growth in revenues to Rs 21,125 crore for 2012, as compared with Rs 19,037 crore in 2011.

Kerala tourism posts 11% growth

The bank currently operates 114 branches in Odisha; to add three more branches to its network in Bhubaneswar region by the end of this month

IOB to open regional office at Sambalpur

State currently levies 20 per cent VAT on cigarettes

AP in a fix over proposal to hike tax on cigarettes

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