The illegal trade of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) continues unabated in Uttar Pradesh, especially in districts bordering the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal.

Fake currency trade is unabated in UP

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Peterhof, a premier and popular hotel of the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) in Shimla, owes house tax of Rs 50 lakh to the Shimla Municipal Corporation.

Shimla MC demands Rs 50 lakh due from HPTDC

Meet Pranab Mukherjee, Anand Sharma with set of demands.

UP weavers demand direct benefit of  Rs 3,200-cr package

Ravi Kumar Distilleries Ltd (RKDL) is planning to acquire 100 per cent stake of Hyderabad-based Liquors India Ltd, for Rs 28 crore. The company would buy the entire stake in two tranches, starting with&nbsp;49 per cent shares.

Ravi Kumar Distilleries to acquire Liquors India

Rikin Gandhi&rsquo;s novel idea to film and screen &lsquo;best practice&rsquo; videos of farming techniques across villages in India has wooed both farmers and the government.

Aspiring astronaut helps farmers

To make fruit and vegetable sector more attractive for retailers, the Madhya Pradesh government on Monday decided to put fruit and vegetables out of the Agriculture Produce Market Committees Act.

APMC Act amendment to boost agri marketing

Gold finance firm Muthoot Finance Ltd (MFL) is expecting to growth 50 to 60 per cent in assets under management (AUM) from last year's Rs 15,868 crore. The company is launching around 650 branches through out the country with an investment of around Rs 10 lakh per branch in the fiscal.

Muthoot expects up to 60% growth in AUM

Despite wine activities falling under the food processing industry in Madhya Pradesh, the state&rsquo;s first winery is now facing a bleak future due to financial crunch and absence of government-backed market.

Winery woes in MP

Looking at the surge in the area under paddy transplantation in Haryana this season, there are apprehensions that the area under basmati rice would decrease.

Haryana's basmati acreage may shrink

The will of Sree Padmanabha or the order of the Supreme court -- which of the two should be implemented? The future of the huge treausure discovered in the Sree Pdamanabha temple now has to contend with a new factor that took the form of the three-day Devaprasnam.

Devaprasnam leads to new questions over future of temple treasure

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said the state's debt position would come down to 20.39 per cent, as compared to 13th Finance Commission norms of 24.5 per cent of GSDP. Besides, the state government also announced withdrawal of 20 per cent power cut to high tension (HT) units.

TN to bring down debt to 20%: Jaya

The commerce ministry is setting up a monitoring committee with officials drawn from various bodies, including the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and Indian Pharmacopeia , to ensure the quality of pharmaceutical exports. The move comes in the wake of recent suspension of tenders awarded to Indian companies for supply of drugs by Sri Lankan government.

Panel to ensure quality of pharma exports soon

Farmers growing a particular crop should come together to form producers&rsquo; organisations at different levels to effectively deal with the government.

Farmers asked to form crop-wise interest groups

Hyderabad-headquartered Aurobindo Pharma Limited reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 122.8 crore for the first quarter ended June 2011. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 51.5 crore in the same quarter in last financial year.

Aurobindo Pharma Q1 net loss at Rs 122.8 cr

Ybrant Digital, a Hyderabad-based provider of digital marketing solutions, has been officially chosen as one of the 20 Facebook&rsquo;s marketing application programming interface (API) partners.

Ybrant becomes Facebook's partner

City-based electronics and Internet technologies start-up, Bizz Group, launched BizzBook, which it claims to be the first eight-inch tablet PC in the Indian market, on Monday.

Bizz launches 8-inch tablet PC

The ITA had placed an indent for 120 million kg of tobacco for the 2011-12 season, as against the crop size of 170 million kg. The ITA claimed that it had no export orders from the global market, and it would not be possible for the traders to buy the crop at the prices fixed by the board. In the 2010-11 season, the crop size was put at 166.16 million kg spread over 116,316 hectares.

Tobacco Board lobbies with ITA on crop size

A special vigilance court on Monday directed the vigilance wing of the Kerala police to re-investigate the involvement of the then finance minister Oommen Chandy in the palm oil import case. The report should be submitted within three months.

Vigilance court orders re-look at Chandy role in palm oil case

General Administration, Public Enterprises depts fail to spend a single rupee.

Plan spending of 21 departments woeful in Apr-Jun

The gross under-reporting of prices of different grades of iron ore by some unscrupulous miners in Orissa, resulting in revenue loss to the state exchequer has snowballed into a major issue.

Orissa urges IBM to arrest under-reporting of iron ore prices

Commercial tax collection in the state has surged by 28.32 per cent during April-July this year at Rs 2,558.93 crore as against Rs 1,994.12 crore recorded in the corresponding period of previous fiscal.

Commercial tax collection up 29 % in Apr-Jul

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