Unhappy with the financial unviability of their assignment, the 150-odd cotton ginning mills in Haryana will this time refrain from working for the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), their apex body said on Thursday ahead of the arrival of the crop by next month-end or early October.

Haryana cotton ginners seek higher prices

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To make the retail investors more &lsquo;stock market-savvy&rsquo;, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) held an investor awareness workshop in the UP capital in association with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI).

BSE workshop for grooming investors

A record 85 lakh pilgrims had visited the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine last year. Now, the Jammu and Kashmir Tourism department has launched efforts to attract more of these pilgrims to other shrines situated on the Shivkhori shrine circuit by providing additional infrastructure facilities.

Efforts to attract pilgrims to Shivkhori shrine

Commercial banks operating in Orissa have been chastised by the state government for their below par lending to the agricultural sector that supports over two-thirds of livelihoods in the state.

Orissa pulls up banks for dismal lending to agriculture sector

A decade after its inception, the country&rsquo;s first women&rsquo;s poultry cooperative stares at a bleak future as the central Indian rural initiative is facing administrative apathy even as a private firm is giving it tough competition by undercutting.

MP's women's co-op facing tough time as pvt competitor seeks to rule the roost

With drought conditions looming large over western and southern parts of Orissa due to scanty monsoon rainfall, the hydro power generation in the state is likely to take a hit. According to the projects of state-run Grid Corporation of Orissa (Gridco), the hydro electric generation may fall by a third by the end of this month.

Hydro power generation may fall due to poor rainfall

The members of the committee include S K Das, director (mines), P C Patra, deputy director (mines), M R Mohanty, deputy director (mines), S K Das, mining engineer (directorate of mines) and K C Sahoo, deputy secretary, steel &amp; mines department.

Technical team to examine levy of royalty

The Government of India will revise the coal royalty rates after examining the recommendations of the study group of the Ministry of Coal.

Coal royalty revision after study group`s recommendation

Following the coal ministry&rsquo;s directive, the state-owned Andhra Pradesh Mining Development Corporation (APMDC) has speeded up the pre-mining process on two captive coal blocks in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. Allotted by the ministry in 2006 and 2007 respectively, these two blocks together hold over 1 billion tonne of coal reserves.

APMDC to mine its Orissa, MP coal blocks by 2014

Lorry and trucks owners in Tamil Nadu have decided not to take part in a strike called by Lorry Owners' Association across south India against the delay in implementing concession in toll charges that was agreed in 2010 and diesel prices.

TN truckers to stay away from strike

The Income Tax (IT) department officials on Thursday raided Saravana and Saravana Selvarathnam group of stores in the city, following complaints of alleged tax evasion. Sources said the IT officials raided 17 places.

Income tax raids on Saravana stores

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday launched a major search and seizure operation across several cities, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, on the houses and offices of Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, on his companies and dozens of other firms and individuals who made investments in to his business ventures .

CBI begins widespread searches on premises of Jagan, associates

Southern Online Biotechnologies Ltd, which operates in bio-diesel production and internet services segments, reported a net loss of Rs 4.73 crore in the three months ended June 30, 2011, compared to a profit of Rs 21 lakh in the corresponding quarter last year.

Interest costs push Southern Online into red in June quarter

Solar Semiconductor Private Limited, a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and system integrators, is in the process of acquiring US-based Solar Infra.

Hyd firm Solar Semiconductor to acquire Solar Infra

Indian Bank on Thursday launched a variable recurring deposit product for its rural customers covered under financial inclusion.

Indian Bank launches variable RD product

The very people whom you would imagine to be supporters of Anna are against him for being exclusivist, high handed, and a stooge for right wing parties.

Will the Anna wave last?

Power-starved Karnataka may have to live with peak hour deficit for many more years as there is no possibility of major capacity additions in generation in the next four years. The state will have to meet its demand and supply gap by buying power from independent power producers from outside the state, a top official said.

Power capacity not to rise for 4 yrs

Karnataka government on Friday assured farmers' leaders that it would request sugar factories to pay Rs 2,000 as advance per tonne of sugarcane supplied.

Govt to ask sugar factories to pay advance

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Sundaram Fasteners Ltd is planning to invest around Rs 150 crore in 2011-12, which is an increase of around 11 per cent over last year. Besides, the company also said it is looking at acquisitions in the automotive space.

Sundaram lines up Rs 150 cr capex in 2011-12

The government can ill-afford to ignore popular sentiment for Anna Hazare&rsquo;s anti-corruption campaign as otherwise it may have to pay a &ldquo;heavy price&rdquo;, Santosh Hegde, Lokpal Bill drafting committee member, on Friday said.

'People are supreme, not anybody else'

The vintage but ailing Nepa Nagar Mills may get back to life, as the Union government is learnt to have dumped its disinvestment plan of the 1947-founded company &mdash; instead, float a Rs 975-crore revival plan.

Nepa poised for Rs 975-cr revival plan

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