The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 03, 2009

Massive hunt on for AP CM as copter goes missing
Bell-430 helicopter was last seen over Kurnool flying towards Nallamala forests. Hyderabad, Sept. 2 The mysterious disappearance of the helicopter carrying the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress strongman, Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, in ...

American Tower Corp eyeing more acquisitions in India
Goes calling for Aircel’s tower business. New Delhi, Sept. 2 In a move that would expand its footprint in the country, American Tower Corporation (ATC) is in advanced talks for acquiring a couple of Indian tower companies. The Boston-based ...

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Finance Ministry frees goods moved by Railways from service tax
New Delhi, Sept. 2 The Indian Railways has escaped from the service tax net thrown around it by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, in Budget ...

Fuel-efficiency labels on cars to be made mandatory soon
New Delhi, Sept. 2 Come 2011, car buyers will be able to tell how fuel efficient the car ...

Retail sale of swine flu drug ‘not a done deal’
Mumbai, Sept. 2 There is no clarity on whether anti-viral medicine Oseltamivir will indeed be sold at retail chemists in another two weeks, due to mixed signals from the Union ...

HR coil prices move up again
New Delhi, Sept 2 Prices of hot rolled steel are on the rise again, with leading steel makers increasing rates this month. Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has increased its prices in flat products by about Rs 1,500 this month. According to ...

Bankers wary of collateral-free education loan scheme
Repayments seen affected by economic slowdown, slump in job markets. Mumbai, Sept. 2 Collateral-free education loans given by banks under the ‘model education loan scheme for students to pursue higher studies’ has bankers a bit ...

Funds’ asset base swells 8.7% in August
Larger inflows in debt-liquid, ultra short-term funds. Mumbai, Sept 2 The mutual fund industry has seen an 8.7 per cent increase in the asset base for the month of August, against an increase of 2.8 per cent in July, largely due to significant ...

Indian demand unlikely to fuel global sugar prices
White sugar premium widens on hopes of imports. With domestic mills and refiners booking over two-thirds of their raw sugar requirements for the coming 2009-10 season (October-September), demand from India is unlikely to help sustain the current ...

RIL wants NTPC to settle gas sales and purchase pact
Requests Power Ministry to speed up the process. New Delhi, Sept. 2 Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has sought the Power Ministry’s intervention in concluding the gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) with public sector power utility ...

Packaged in history
Vimal Kedia’s products and packaging museum in Bangalore can fill one with a deep sense of nostalgia of how things were.. Who would ever think that an aluminium tiffin carrier or a tin of baby food would be a collector’s item ...

Bay `low' deferred by a day but rain forecast stays
The monsoon has been active in Konkan, Goa, Vidarbha, coastal Karnataka and Kerala during the past 24 hours even as India Met Department (IMD) deferred the watch for a fresh low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal by a ...