Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced Haryana had a vision to achieve a double growth rate and grow its economy from $30 billion (about Rs 138,000 crore) to $130 billion (about Rs 598,000 crore) in the next ten years. Hooda was speaking at the Assocham&rsquo;s Summit on &lsquo;Advantage Haryana &ndash; Land of Opportunities&rsquo; in New Delhi.

Hooda govt eyes $130-bn economy in 10 years

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The Uttar Pradesh government is setting up a jatropha nursery spread over 1,000 hectares in Bahraich district to cultivate seeds for future plantations to extract bio-diesel.

UP to cultivate jatropha for bio-fuel

Union minister of state for food processing and agriculture Harish Rawat today favoured foreign direct investment (FDI) in the farm sector and said the food security bill would be placed in the coming monsoon session of the Parliament.

Rawat favours FDI in agriculture

After an all-time high apple crop last year, production could drop by half or more in Himachal Pradesh, say officials and farmers.

Himachal apple production set to fall this year

The route of proposed East-West Metro to connect Salt Lake Sector five (in the east) to Howrah Maidan (in the west) may get changed to save green around Subhas Sarobor Lake in the eastern part of the city.

East-West Metro's route likely to change

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) will organized a summit titled &ldquo;Advantage Chhattisgarh&mdash;the Land of Opportunities&rdquo; here in Raipur on Monday.

ASSOCHAM summit starts today

Finally, there is light at the end of the tunnel for Haldia Petrochemicals (HPL), where the major shareholders The Chatterjee Group (TCG) and the West Bengal government were fighting a legal battle for some time.

TCG chief smokes peace pipe with Bengal govt

Orissa has shown a significant improvement on the expenditure front in 2010-11. The state's overall expenditure, Plan as well as Non-Plan, in the last fiscal stood at Rs 35,610.41 crore, which is an achievement of 89.25 per cent of the Budgetary Estimate (BE) of Rs 39,896.59 crore for the fiscal.

Expenditure at 89.25 % of Budgetary Estimate

Orissa chief minister and president of ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Naveen Patnaik today suspended his party MLA from Bari in Jajpur district, Debasish Nayak on the charges of anti-party activity.

Debasish Nayak suspended

The United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco outfit active in the project site of the South Korean steel major in Orissa, has formed a core committee to hold discussion with the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC), Central range, on its long pending demands related to the project.

Pro-Posco group to meet RDC on its demands today

Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) has reported a marginal growth in net profit for the year ended March 31, 2011, to Rs 1,298.33 crore as compared to Rs 1,247.46 crore a year ago.

NLC profit flat, blames BHEL for supply delays

Enthiran, a blockbuster movie released by Sun Pictures, the films division of Kalanithi Maran-owned Sun Group, has clocked a revenue of Rs 179 crore, while the company spent Rs 132 crore on production.

'Enthiran' clocked Rs 179 cr

The Women Cooperative Finance Corporation (WCFC) could work as a nodal agency for mid-way financing of the women self-help groups (SHGs), according to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.

Andhra CM favours women's co-op as SHG nodal agency

With its reentry in Gujarat with a residential project comprising luxurious apartments, Mumbai-based Ajmera Realty, part of the Ajmera Group is eyeing a Rs 100 crore revenue from the same. The project, 'Enigma Fragrance of Life', will be executed through a 50:50 JV with developer company Sheetal Infrastructure.

Ajmera Group eyes Rs 100 cr biz from Guj

Known for Kesar mango auction in the state, Talala Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) has started a mango pack house at Talala to boost exports of mango from Saurashtra, which mainly grows popular mango variety called Kesar.

Talala APMC starts mango pack house

Banking on the Gujarat's preference for diesel cars, French carmaker Renault is expecting 80-85 per cent of its sales of its newly launched sedan Fluence to come from the diesel variant in the state.

Renault bets big on Fluence's diesel variants

Under attack from the Congress and JD(S) besides battling the threats of being ousted, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said his government enjoyed a majority and there was no need for &lsquo;Operation Lotus&rsquo; under which Opposition MLAs were lured into the BJP fold.

CM calls off 'operation lotus'

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Krishnaraja Nagar (K R Nagar), a town built by Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar on modern lines in Mysore district and which is set to turn 75, will be developed as a heritage city.

K R Nagar to be developed as heritage town

The Karnataka government&rsquo;s &lsquo;Yashaswini&rsquo;, a health insurance scheme for rural co-operative society members now stands compromised, thanks to the hospitals in many parts of the state insisting on patients paying up before being discharge. But, the scheme envisages free medical benefit under any of the 1,600 diseases and surgeries listed.

Hospitals compromise health insurance scheme

Parivartan (change) is finally knocking on the doors of industrial West Bengal too. Bouyed by the &ldquo;fresh hope&rdquo; pumped in by the new the Trinamool Congress-led government, the Eastern India&rsquo;s largest petrochemical company Haldia Petrochemicals (HPL) is planning to invest about Rs 4,000 crore in eight projects.

HPL to invest Rs 4,000 cr on eight projects in WB

Honouring the election pledge of Trinamool Congress to have a transparent land policy in West Bengal, the state government today set up a committee which will submit suggestions on its formulation.

Land committee set up by Mamata to give suggestions on land policy

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