Enthused with the experiment, the local women urged Mushran to start a small factory. She readily agreed, with the aim of providing employment to poor women and using fruit grown by local marginal farmers. That's how Bhuira Jams was born.
Till now ready-made garments and textile made-ups were under an optional excise duty regime and manufacturers were required to pay duty only if he wishes to avail of the Central value-added tax (Cenvat) credit.
In order to assist medium-size companies, California-based Adizes Institute will start its India operations this month
The two tournaments will see cricket bats and accessories of major players bearing the logos of Jalandhar companies like BAS and Ranson.
According to the data, out of over 5,000 government websites across the country, only six or seven are of use for persons suffering from visual, hearing, mental and other disabilities.
Farmers may be grinning ear to ear as the rain god is smiling on Punjab and Haryana, but industries in these states are busy calculating their losses.
Industries in Punjab are facing an acute shortage of labourers, most of whom come from other states. In spite of revising the wages of labourers, be it unskilled, semi-skilled or highly skilled, they have found it difficult to solve the problem.
The department of information technology, Government of India will submit its proposal by next month to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers, a non-profit organisation responsible for managing the internet's domain name system, including IP address space assignments based in California, USA.
Most of the projects launched in last few months are working on construction linked payment plan, which could help them win confidence of buyers.
From April 1, 2010, 13 cities will switch to Euro IV. Earlier, industry experts said that the Euro IV emission norms, to be effective from April 2010, would force an upward revision of prices as carmakers were making significant investments to upgrade vehicle engines to make them Euro IV compliant.
The testing track for high speed vehicles (having speeds between 250 kmph and 350 kmph) at the Indore centre would be operational by 2012.
At present India is exporting soya extracts, green chillies and potatoes.
Banks and staff unions had settled on a 17.5 per cent salary hike, to benefit about 702,000 public sector employees, besides agreeing to make 332,000 serving and retired employees eligible for pension.
Nissan Motor India is planning to launch its sports car 370Z in India by January 2010. The company has drawn up an aggressive plan for India which will see a business model comprising five locally-made cars and four imported models by 2012.
According to various manpower outsourcing firms, more and more companies are resorting to temporary staffing. Rakesh Joshi, regional manager -- operations, IKYA Staffing Solutions, said permanent staffing had seen a slow growth in the recessionary phase. He said companies were not only going for temporary staffing in the junior level recruitments, a few of them were also opting for temporary staffing in middle management.
Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj regional director Manoj Kashyap feels the cash flow that is readily available with the senior citizens is one of the reasons why real estate companies are looking at this untapped market. According to Gurinder Bawa, business head, International Travel House Limited, availability of time and money with senior citizens is driving the interest of travel houses towards them.
The bank has made a budgetary provision of Rs 50-60 crore for the proposed 100 branches. Of these, 50 per cent would be in the northern region. According to B K Mahajan, general manager-HRM, "The Chandigarh region comprising Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Jammu & Kashmir registered a business of Rs 1,904 crore as on March 31, 2009. Of this, deposits stood at Rs 600 crore and advances Rs 1,304 crore."
Real estate majors, who had lined up projects in Punjab to woo non-resident Indians, have put on hold their plans indefinitely with most NRIs no longer keen to invest in these properties.
Bosch Ltd, the flagship company of Bosch Group, plans to open 230 multibrand Bosch Car Service (BCS) centres by 2010 across the country, taking the total number to 500.
The airline will be running the fight on a daily basis from the Rajasansi International Airport. The flight currently runs thrice a week. The proposed move is expected to provide a relief to perishable exporters and farmers of Punjab who were affected after Jet Airways and Singapore Airlines withdrew their services last year stating it was not feasible for them to continue anymore.
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