The announcement was made by agriculture and cooperation minister Babu Bokhiria

Gujarat announces revival package for farmers

BS Reporter

Assam is all set to table a bill to ban manufacturing, sale and storage of all kinds of smokeless tobacco products in the state.

Assam bill on banning smokeless tobacco

Amid the ongoing tussle between the West Bengal government and the State Election Commission over holding of the panchayat elections, the BJP on Thursday suggested convening an all-party meeting to break the impasse.

BJP suggests all-party meet on panchayat poll impasse

Press Trust of India

Normal functioning of the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha was on Thursday disrupted by the principal opposition BJP, as the House met for the opening day of the state budget session.

BJP seeks CBI probe into industrial land deals

Land mafias evade the change of land use fee, resulting in losses to the exchequer

Gala time for land dealers as state turns a blind eye

Business Standard

Drastic decline in fund allocation in the Rail budget, coupled with land acquisition issues, non-co-operation from state govt is threatening the future of these projects

Kolkata Metro expansion in trouble

The Rs 30,000 crore project was halted in May 2009 after HC order

UP seeks fresh proposal from Jaypee on Ganga Expressway

Leading diagnostic chain, Dr Lal Pathlabs, is eyeing acquisitions in western and southern India. It has laid out an ambitious plan to scale up operations and has earmarked Rs 250 crore for the purpose.

Diagnostic chains look to smaller towns for growth

Blume Ventures sets a breakneck speed in two years of existence; time will tell if the strategy works

Angel investing done differently

It is back in the fray with a plan to offer 4G services, but its limited reserve of spectrum may play spoilsport

Sistema sets its sights on data

Samsung gets new boss to boost handset sales

BS People: Vineet Taneja

Lowest in recent times; sharp fall from 7.71% growth registered in 2011-12

AP industrial growth pegged at 0.73%

Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddha's plea for directions to the Delhi Police to file complete charge sheet in the air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case has been dismissed by a Delhi court.District Judge S K Sarvaria said the accused had moved the trial court earlier with the same prayer for mirror images of electronic data and documents relied upon by prosecution in the case and the police had given an undertaking that it will supply them the copies on receiving it from the forensic lab."Therefore, so far as the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) result and mirror image (of electronic device/hard disk/mobile phone) are concerned, the same being with FSL and there is undertaking on behalf of prosecution to file with supplementary challan, there is no need on behalf of accused persons to demand here mirror image of hard disk etc. Before the sessions court," the court said.The sessions court also rejected another plea of Kanda and Chaddha for directions to tel

Kanda's plea for documents in Geetika suicide case dismissed

HSIIDC released the details the calculated amount for the 350.72 acre of land that was transferred to DLF

HSIIDC tries to emerge clean over CAG report

Uttarakhand CM Vijay Bahuguna has set an ambitious deadline of March 31 to bring mega industrial proposals for investments into the state

Mega industrial proposals before March 31: Bahuguna

Harsco Corporation, a Camp Hill, US-based industrial company, is open to acquisitions across geographies including in India, according to president and chief executive officer Patrick K Decker.The New York Stock Exchange-listed company, with $3 billion in annual sales, has been built through over 25 acquisitions. The company has close to $100 million in cash and cash equivalents on its books."We are looking at acquisitions that are strategic in nature and would bring unique value to our four business divisions - onsite contract services to steel and metal companies, infrastructure, rail and industrial," he told mediapersons here on Tuesday.Harsco, which has bagged a $100-million contract from the Jindal Group for material handling and a $225-million contract from JSW Steel to provide onsite services in the last one year, is pursuing metal and mineral and rail contract opportunities in the domestic market."We are working towards replicating our success in China (where Harsco bagged a $3

Harsco Corp eyes buyouts in India

Wendt (India) Ltd has received an ad-interim order from a court in Bangalore of temporary injunction restraining 3M India Ltd, Bangalore, and Precomp Gears (P) Ltd, Pune, from using the trade name Wendt in dealing with machine tools, abrasives, grinding machines etc.

Wendt India gets injunction restraining 3M, Precompt from using trade name

Company mulls to roll out the product across India in the next six months

BPCL launches lubricant for tractor market  in Punjab, Haryana

Tamil Nadu has proposed four fishing harbours in different places in the state as part of promoting the deep-sea fishing and upgrading the relevant facilities for this.

TN proposes four fishing harbours

The start-up has raised $5 million from Matrix Partners India and Lightspeed Venture Partners

E-commerce portal Limeroad launched in Hyderabad

E S L Narasimhan says supply of adequate power has been ensured to over 3.2 million pump sets in the state

Committed to free power to farm sector: AP Governor

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