Nichrome India Limited, a packaging machinery manufacturer and a player in VFFS machines in India, is focusing on agricultural packaging sector and expanding its base across India. Over 80 per cent of the seed packaging in India is done using Nichrome Machinery, the company claims. In every season including rabi or kharif, Nichrome machines manage to pack around 50 million pouches.

Nichrome to focus on agro- packaging business

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The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday presented the annual Budget for the year 2012-13 with a total outlay of Rs 1.46 lakh crore, an increase of 18.71 per cent over the revised estimates of the current year, proposing higher allocations to social sectors.

AP presents Rs 1.46 lakh cr Budget thrust on social sector

In an unusual situation, the annual Budget speech was delivered by two ministers on the floor of the state legislative Assembly.

FM trips during presentation

Curtains fell on an even more animated and high-profile round of electioneering in Uttar Pradesh this evening, as the country&rsquo;s most populous state is poised to witness on Sunday its fourth phase of the ongoing assembly elections.

UP goes to phase 4 of assembly polls tomorrow

The Haryana government has suspended a scheme of distribution of old age pension though public-sector banks till their infrastructure gathered a certain stability in the state&rsquo;s rural areas.

Haryana suspends giving old age pension through public sector banks

India might welcome one of the world's top selling highway-capable electric car in the coming years, as the Japanese carmaker Nissan is looking into the possiblity intoducing its electric vehicle, Leaf, into the Indian market.

Nissan mulls to launch its top-selling electric car in India

In the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh&rsquo;s direction to Coal India Ltd (CIL) to import coal to ensure supplies for 20 years to the power sector, the state-run coal major today clarified today that it is not in the business of imports.

CIL not in business of imports: Chairman

The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to R S Agarwal, a director of Advanced Medicare and Research Institute (AMRI), who was arrested after a mishap at the hospital&rsquo;s Dhakuria unit on December 9 which claimed 91 lives. However, other four directors &mdash; R S Goenka, Ravi Todi, Prashant Goenka and Manish Goenka &mdash; were denied bail on Friday.

Calcutta High Court grants bail to RS Agarwal

The state finance department has extended the deadline for issue of allotment, sanction and release of funds, re-appropriation of funds, surrender of provisions and drawal of funds for the remaining part of the current financial year.

Finance department extends deadline for fund sanction

Tata Steel has requested the Orissa government to extend the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) period for its Kalinganagar steel plant.

Tata Steel seeks MoU extension for Kalinganagar plant

The Karnataka cabinet on Friday approved a proposal to extend several tax incentives to Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India Limited (HMSI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese auto major Honda Motor Corporation.

State's tax incentives to HMSI 

The Solvent Extractors&rsquo; Association of India (SEA) has estimated a record castor seed production of 1.61 million tonnes in India for 2011-12 season (October-September), showing a growth of about 30 per cent over 1.25 million tonnes recorded last year.

India's castor seed output pegged at record 1.61 mn tonnes

Oxford University Press (OUP) the &nbsp;department of the University of Oxford, which has publishing operations in India since 1912 is involved in a school publishing programme. It publishes e-learning/digital chapter wise material, most of which is free of cost for SSC, ICSE and CBSE syllabus aiding teaching and learning. Now, with 5 years behind it, OUP would focus on tier II cities.

Oxford University Press to focus on tier-II cities

Having opened its office in Ahmedabad recently, VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, is now looking to tap the growing demand for virtualisation and cloud computing based solutions from Gujarat.

VMware to expand cloud operations in Gujarat

Taking a dig at the UPA-led union government, Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the former for attacking on the federal structure of the country and encroachment on the constitutional powers of the states. He demanded a state chief ministers' meet to discuss National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC).

Narendra Modi calls for state CMs' meet over NCTC

The microfinance sector in India grew at an astonishing pace and so has been the climb down. The past 18-months have been one of the toughest time for microfinance institutions (MFI) as the access to capital has been scarce. The awaited Bill on microfinance is widely expected to bring solace to the sector. However, according to Unitus Capital, an established player in raising capital for MFIs, positive change is already happening in the country.

MFIs an attractive option for NBFCs looking at banking foray: Eric Savage

The work for erecting furnace shell of the blast furnace-8 started in the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) under the expansion programme in Steel Authority of India Limited&rsquo;s flagship entity.

Furnace shell building starts at Bhilai plant

Insisting that only the Left had an alternative to the &quot;anti-people&quot; policies of the Centre, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday advocated greater Left unity in building up a country-wide campaign against price rise, unemployment and the plight of farmers.

Karat for strengthening Left unity

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Hitachi Consulting, the IT and management consulting solutions subsidiary of the $115-billion Japanese major Hitachi Limited, will be making an incremental investment of $25 million (approximately Rs 125 crore) in human infrastructure at its global delivery centre (GDC) in Hyderabad over the next five years, according to Sanjay Jesrani, vice-president and head ( GDC - India and China).

Hitachi Consulting to invest $25 mn

Ford India, subsidiary of the US major Ford, has launched 45 outlets across 35 cities in the country. The company said it will launch one outlet every ten days in the next 24 months. Meanwhile, the company also said that the expansion of diesel plant will be concluded by March end. The car major is investing around $72 million for the expansion plans.

Ford launches 45 outlets across 35 cities

Even as the three-tier panchayat polls in the state came to an end on Sunday, the by-election to an assembly seat, scheduled next month, has cast its shadow on the ensuing state budget which will be presented next Friday.

Athagarh by-poll may cast shadow on budget

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