Salt industry in Gujarat fears that it would lose its competitiveness due to the state government's decision of a steep hike in the ground rent of the land leased to the industry for salt production.

Gujarat salt makers fear loss of business to other states

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The Karnataka government would set up two multi-skill development centres at a total cost of Rs 72 crore in the district headquarters town of Gulbarga and Bangalore, Karnataka Labour and Sericulture Minister B N Bache Gowda said today.

State plans two skills development centres

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This request was made today by Chief Minister P K Dhumal in New Delhi at a meeting on the 12th plan approach paper organised by the planning commission.

Himachal seeks doubling of Five-Year Plan

With the small and medium enterprises (SME) industry being as large as 350,000 units in Gujarat, Faridabad-based Nano Cranes Pvt. Ltd. (NCPL) is looking to sell over 600 units of its Vector crane. Part of the Urastun Group, the company recently launched the one tonne capacity pick and move crane in the state for a price of Rs 4.5 lakhs.

NCPL launches nano cranes in Gujarat

In a sudden shift in stand, the United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco outfit which had vowed to intensify its stir against land acquisition for the Posco project, has decided to extend cooperation for the process.

UAC pledges support for Posco land acquisition

The West Bengal government has sought all documents on the Singur deal with Tata Motors from authorities of the commerce and industry department at the earliest.

Bengal govt wants to expedite Singur land return process

Plans another two new service apartments in city.

Radhika Inn opens first luxurious service apartment in Nashik

Aesthetic Solutions' Coolwrap keeps buildings 14 degrees cooler.

US DoE to study cool-roofing solutions of Vadodara-based firm 

Chidananda Dasgupta, noted film critic and father of renowned actor-director Aparna Sen, died here last night following brief illness. He was 89 and predeceased by his wife two years ago.

Noted film critic Chidananda Dasgupta dead 

Gujarat government has initiated works on the three Narmada branch canals in Kutch and North Gujarat. The canals with about 986.88 kilometers will be built at the cost of Rs 712 crore and will provide Narmada water to 158 villages of Patan, Banaskantha and Kutch districts.

Gujarat to build 3 branch canals for Narmada waters in Kutch, N Gujarat

24 buyouts in 15 years &mdash; 3 in the last 4 months.

Kumar Birla's science of shopping

The Andhra Pradesh Spinning Mills Association (APSMA) closed the 200 spinning mills under it for a day today in protest against the Centre&rsquo;s ban on export of cotton yarn .

Spinning mills shut shop for a day in protest 

For 24-year-old Dheeraj C Reddy, a comfortable job in Bangalore after his bachelor's in engineering was not satisfying. Drawn to the idea of social entrepreneurship, he quit the job and spent a year working with a start-up, training rural youth for jobs in the BPO sector. He is back as a student these days, and seems to be in good company, having found mates with similar interests.

New crop at ISB finds its colours match

Rubber Board is organising an intensive mass contact programme to create awareness among the rubber growers about scientific tapping and other modern&nbsp;practices in all aspects of rubber plantation industry.

Rubber Board plans awareness programme

City-based multi-brand car service network CarZ has received a $5-million funding from IndoUS Venture Partners (IUVP), a venture capital firm which provides early and mid-stage funding to businesses in India.

CarZ gets $5 mn funding 

Hyderabad-based infrastructure company Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) has bagged a Rs 548.40-crore grid interactive solar photo voltaic power project from Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (MahaGenco). The EPC contract is to design, construct, supply, erect, test and commission a 50-Mw power project based at Shivajinagar in Dhule district of Maharashtra. It involves development of solar farm on over 500 acre by deploying half a million PV panels.

MEIL bags order from MahaGenco

Private sector lender YES Bank is planning to open 100-150 branches in the southern region of the country in the next three years to boost its retail base.

YES Bank to open 150 branches in South

Tamil Nadu Minister for Environment and Pollution Control and Minorities Welfare N Mariam Pitchai died in a road accident near Tiruchirappalli (Tiruchi) on Monday morning. He was 60. Pitchai was on his way to Chennai to take part in the swearing-in cerem-ony of new MLAs, sched-uled in the afternoon. Born in Tiruchi, Pitchai was sworn in as minister in the recently-formed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government after winning the Tiruchi west constituency by defeating former transport minister KN Nehru. He was also elected as corporation councillor for Tiruchi for two terms.

TN legislator killed in road accident

Having forayed into the education sector and undertaken joint collaborative academic ventures with various foreign universities, Chandigarh-based pharmaceutical group Ind-Swift has plans to set up a deemed university in Punjab in three years. It will offer courses in humanities, law, aviation, research &amp; development in automotive and aeronautics, environmental engineering, print technology, etc at its existing campus in Rajpura (Punjab).

Ind-Swift to set up deemed university in Punjab

Star Union Dai-ichi (SUD) Life Insurance Co Ltd, a joint venture of public sector banks Bank of India and Union Bank of India and Japanese insurance firm Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, is looking at expanding presence in South India by opening area offices for back end support to its customers.

Star Union Dai-ichi to widen presence

Mangalore headquartered private sector lender, Karnataka Bank has registered a 22.56 per cent rise in its net profit to Rs 90.82 crore in the fourth quarter of FY 11 as against Rs 74.10 crore same period last year. Total income of the bank rose by 22.74 per cent to Rs 745.41 crore as compared with Rs 607.29 crore reported earlier. Operating profit, however, declined by 1.61 per cent to Rs 91.34 crore during Q4 as compared with Rs 92.84 crore reported in the corresponding period last year.

Karnataka Bank Q4 net up 22.5% to Rs 91 cr

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