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

UP seeks fresh proposal from Jaypee on Ganga Expressway

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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

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

AP industrial growth pegged at 0.73%

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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

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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

Opposition Congress raised slogans and moved to the well, alleging that the police had raided its Congress Legislature Party office within the Assembly complex on Wednesday

Punjab Assembly adjourned after pandemonium

The state is estimated to grow at 6.2% in FY13; the national level is 5%

Himachal leaves the nation behind with higher growth

The proposal from Hescom to the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) to hike the power tariff by 70 paise per unit has come as a shocker to consumers of North Karnataka.

Power tariff opposed in North K'taka

Investments sought in agro-food processing, manufacturing, infrastructure, IT, skills development and healthcare

Uttar Pradesh government hosts US biz delegation

For the first time in Karnataka, mushroom seed packets are being made in Mysore to popularise its cultivation. As many as 15,000 mushroom seed packets are being prepared, each packet with 250 gramme seeds priced at Rs 10 each, said M S Raju, Senior Assistant Director of Horticulture, State Zone.Presiding over a day-long training programme on mushroom cultivation under the aegis of the Laboratory Development Scheme of the Horticulture Department at Kukkarahalli Lake here recently, he said, the demand for mushroom was on the rise as they are protein-rich. The demand is increasing not only in India but also abroad. As a result, there is good market potential to tap, by taking up mushroom cultivation. Farmers, women and unemployed youth can take up its cultivation to take advantage of the good demand and increase their revenue.The department, will organisie a week-long training in mushroom cultivation in Mysore, along with watermelon mela and mango mela. The mushroom mela too will be organ

Horticulture dept to market mushroom seed

Housing finance firm Repco Home Finance Ltd (RHFL), promoted by Chennai-based Repco Bank, is planning to explore access to low-cost funds to maintain its capital adequacy ratio and strengthen its balance sheet. The housing finance company, which focuses on tier II and tier III cities, also has future strategy to strengthen its presence in the four southern states it is present in and expand operations to the other states, said company officials.At present, almost 45 per cent of the funding is low-cost refinancing from National Housing Bank (NHB), which is primarily for the prime sector lending mainly in the rural housing sector, while around 44 per cent of the funding is from around 10 banks and the rest 11 per cent is from the promoter firm, Repco Bank, which is a repatriates' co-operative finance and development bank under the Union government."We would like to access other types of low cost funds," said R Varadarajan, managing director, RHFL. The options like non-convertible debentu

Repco Home Finance to look at low-cost funding

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