Chandigarh-based Steel Strips Wheels Ltd (SSWL) has started the regular production and supply of steel wheel rims to Tata Motors Ltd from its newly established manufacturing facility at Jamshedpur with effect from December 14, 2010. The Jamshedpur unit is having a production capacity of one million tube type and tubeless wheels per annum. Tata Motors Ltd have already validated and approved the heavy commercial wheel rims of SSWL&rsquo;s Jamshepur unit.

SSWL begins wheel rims' supply from Jamshepur unit to Tata Motors

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Nearly 1,800 defunct companies in the region are likely to benefit from the Easy Exit Scheme (EES)-2011, launched by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

1,800 defunct firms may benefit from the Easy Exit Scheme

Cane scarcity, improved sugar-realisation did the trick.

UP sugar millers pay farmers in advance

The Haryana State Cooperative Sugar Mills produced 3,71,000 quintals of sugar by crushing 54,89,000 quintals of sugarcane up to December 28 during the current crushing season, against only 1,94,000 quintals of sugar from 27,24,000 quintals of sugarcane during the corresponding period last year.

Co-op mills produce 3.71 lakh quintals of sugar in Haryana

Many of the Himachal Pradesh&rsquo;s popular tourist destinations received the season&rsquo;s first snowfall on Thursday. According to the local weather office, the snowfall has been light to moderate and will continue till Friday. Manali in the Kullu valley and the ski-resorts of Narkanda and Kufri received snowfall, blocking the Hindustan Tibet highway beyond Shimla. Dalhousie and Khajjiar in the Chamba valley, tribal belt of Kinnaur, Pangi, Lahaul and Spiti received yet another spell of snowfall.The 13,050 ft high Rohtang pass recorded heavy snowfall. Flights to Shimla could not take place due to heavy fog hail and rain in the city.

Season's first snowfall in Himachal

Though it claimed better financial management and a handsome growth of nine per cent during 2010, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government had no clue how to manage the precarious power outage and infrastructure during the year 2010. His government tried to make a few attempts to do a makeover through enacting a Bill, Public Services Guarantee Act, and global investors&rsquo; summit at Khajuraho. The commoners, particularly in rural Madhya Pradesh, remained the worst sufferers.

Infra problems continue to dog MP in 2010

In order to upgrade the urban infrastructure, Punjab government would release Rs 1,100 crore in January 2011. Already, in the last four years the state government has spend Rs 2,432.80 crore on urban infrastructure, said Manoranjan Kalia , Punjab industry and commerce minister. With this, total amount to be spent in five years by Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) government for urban development would be Rs 3,500 crore.

Punjab govt to spend Rs 1,100 cr on urban infra

These investor-savvy chief ministers are pulling out the stops and rolling out the red carpet &ndash; with impressive results.

Chief executives of BJP-ruled states

Known as the home of Patola , one of finest hand woven sarees produced in the world, Patan, a historic city in North Gujarat, is also powering its way ahead to become a hub of solar power generation. As many as 16 solar power companies will set up their power plants in solar park being developed at Charanka village in Patan district.

Patola to power: Patan shines again

Gujarat Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will suggest to the state government to take steps in protecting the interests of the farmers engaged in sugarcane production. &quot;Tthe committee will study the minute details on prevailing positions after the closure of sugar co-operative factories in the state and privatisation of such sugar factories in other states,&quot; the committee's head Mohansingh Rathwa said.

PAC bats for farmers interests

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The Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC), Pune Chapter is planning to start a special cell that will facilitate mutually beneficial tie-ups of SMEs working in entertainment segment in Pune region and USA.

Indo-Am Chamber facilitates tie-ups for SMEs

After banning the use of the pesticide endosulfan in the state, the government has decided to punish those found found selling the pesticide henceforth. Speaking to reporters in Belgaum at the weekend, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said the government will issue a notification to the departments concerned in the next two days. The move follows reports highlighting the harmful effects of the pesticide on people&rsquo;s health, the CM added. He also said the governement will write to the prime minister urging him to ban endosulfan in the country.

State to punish merchants selling endosulfan

Bosch Ltd, the largest supplier of automotive components and fuel injection systems to the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), expects a growth of around 20 per cent during the present financial year, which is better than the industry expectations. V K Viswanathan, managing director, Bosch Ltd, explained to Mahesh Kulkarni on the prospects of the company for the year ahead.

Q&A: V K Viswanathan, MD, Bosch Limited

Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&amp;T) lost the contract of building Doon Cyber Tower (DCT) in IT park here to a start-up company despite securing far better points in the bidding process, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has revealed.

L&T was ignored in bidding process: CAG

Government agencies and private millers procured more than 8.33 million (8,329,000) tonnes of wheat till Friday, whereas 9.71 million tonnes (MT) wheat was procured last year.

8.33 MT wheat procured in Punjab

Actress Nandana Sen on Sunday unveiled Raa Diamond jewellery in Bhopal. She displayed the latest creation from the stable of &lsquo;Raa&rsquo;, a unit of Mumbai-based KT Lifestyle. RAA also organised an exhibition on the occasion to showcase a collection of diamond jewellery for men and women. &ldquo;Our creation is gracefully feminine and marvellously crafted as all our designers come from a professional background like National Institute of Fashion Technology.

Raa brand unveiled in Madhya Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Inc has demanded a single window system for enhancing agri exports from the state.

UP Inc demands single window system for agri exports

With the launch of its first 'Arvind Experience Store' in Gujarat at Vadodara, denim major Arvind Ltd. is eyeing 100 stores by the end of the financial year 2011-12. The store in Vadodara is the company's eighth in the country after seven stores in Andhra Pradesh.

Arvind Ltd eyes 100 exclusive stores this year

Leading asset financing company, Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd (STFC), which opened its Automall at Vadodara today, a single-window destination for transaction of pre-owned commercial vehicles (CV), is eyeing a turnover of Rs 60 crore this fiscal from new initiatives that include Automalls, Shriram New Look and Shriram One Stop.

STFC eyes Rs  60 cr revenue in FY12 from new initiatives

Realising the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), universities, technical and educational institutes in Punjab are getting their innovations patented.

Technical institutes make beeline for patents

Kesar mango production in the Saurashtra and Kutch region is likely to decrease by 75 percent due to unfavourable weather conditions at the time of flowering. According to Kesar mango traders in Saurashtra region, the Kesar mango production is likely to go down from 50 lakh boxes to 12 to 15 lakh boxes (each box contains 10 kg) as weather was not good in mid February, when mango trees see flowering.

Kesar mango production likely to decrease by 75% this year

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