Monthly Archives: November 2009

Samlink to start Mumbai-Jafrabad Cruise ferry service

November 26, 2009
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Samlink to start Mumbai-Jafrabad Cruise ferry service

Mumbai-based Samudra Link Ferry Shipping & Cruise services, is slated to begin waterway service between Mumbai-Jafrabad on 7 December. The company, also known as Samlink, had earlier planned to launch the ferry service on April and then in May this year, but had to postpone its plans “due to bad weather conditions”. The 450...

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Roads connecting eight ports will be widened

November 26, 2009
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Roads connecting eight ports will be widened

The State Government’s  Roads and Buildings department has approved Rs 181 crore project for widening of nine-port roads that are gateway to eight ports. The roads that are presently 3.5 to 7 meter wide will be expanded up to 10 meter in view of heavy load of traffic. The project will start in January...

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Industries donate millions of Rupees to Unjha's Umiya Mahotsav

November 24, 2009
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Industries donate millions of Rupees to Unjha's Umiya Mahotsav

Kadva Patidar Kuldevi Shree Umiya Mata Mandir’s 18th century silver jubilee celebrations has been organized during 28th November and 2nd December at specially created 500-acre Umiya Nagar in Unjha. According to Manubhai Patel, Head of the Tent and decoration committee in the Mahotsav, the whole function will be held at a cost of Rs...

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Modi lays foundation stone for Jindal's Rail Wagon factory

November 22, 2009
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Modi lays foundation stone for Jindal's Rail Wagon factory

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, laid the foundation stone of Jindal Rail Infrastructure Limited’s (a 100% subsidiary of Jindal ITF, which is an infrastructure arm of Jindal SAW Ltd.) new Railway Rolling Stock manufacturing facility for Indian Railways as well as Private Sector in Vadodara District of Gujarat today.  In his speech Gujarat Chief...

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Apollo Tyres commissions Rs 200 crore OTR facility in Limda

November 22, 2009
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Apollo Tyres commissions Rs 200 crore OTR facility in Limda

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Apollo Tyres Limited’s new production lines in passenger and truck-bus radial tyres and manufacturing facility for extra-large off-the-road (OTR) tyres at its Limda plant in Gujarat. The company has spent Rs 200 crore at Limda for starting the OTR facility where ultra large tyres weighing more than a...

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Forbes India lists Gautam Adani among top-10 Indian billionaires

November 19, 2009
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Forbes India lists Gautam Adani among top-10 Indian billionaires

Forbes India has listed Adani Enterprises chief Gautam Adani among The top-10 Indian billionaires. His wealth stood at $6.4 billion. According to sources, Adani is a commerce graduate. He is Founder and Promoter of Adani Power Ltd. Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani with $ 32 billion has topped the list of billionaires while steel...

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NSIC office opens at Surat

November 17, 2009
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National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) under the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises has opened a new office at Surat which was inaugurated by Shri Dinsha Patel, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of MSME, recently, to enhance its service delivery to the existing and aspiring entrepreneurs and further spread its reach to the...

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Gujarat is India's highest on-shore oil producer: ONGC MD RS Sharma

November 16, 2009
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Gujarat is India's highest on-shore oil producer: ONGC MD RS Sharma

Gujarat is the highest contributor of on-shore oil production in the country, said RS Sharma, Managing Director of India’s public sector oil giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation  Ltd(ONGC) speaking in a workshop held at IIM Ahmedabad on Sunday. Sharma said, Gujarat produces six million tonne oil annually. It should be mentioned here that...

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Torrent Pharma commissions Human Insulin plant for Novo Nordisk at Kadi

November 15, 2009
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Torrent Pharma commissions Human Insulin plant for Novo Nordisk at Kadi

Ahmedabad based pharma major Torrent Pharmaceuticals on Saturday commissioned a new $ 11 million(Rs 51 crore) human insulin manufacture facility  exclusively for global healthcare major Novo Nordisk. The new unit situated at Torrent Pharma’s existing facility at Kadi, is an integrated manufacturing and vial packaging plant with a capacity to manufacture 26 million vials...

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Ahmedabad's Hotel St Laurn hosts Sachin Tendulkar in Sachin suit

November 14, 2009
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Ahmedabad's Hotel St Laurn hosts Sachin Tendulkar in Sachin suit

Ahmedabad’s  St. Laurn hotel is hosting Indian and Srilankan cricket teams in Ahmedabad for five days today onwards. Both the teams have arrived in Ahmedabad to play a test match starting from 16 November. The hotel St Laurn is offering 70 rooms for both the teams and BCCI officials. the river of darkness download...

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Reliance announces oil find in Gujarat's Cambay Basin

November 10, 2009
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Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited on Tuesday announced discovery of an oilfield 130 km from Ahmedabad in Gujarat’s Cambay Basin, its second major find after the offshore MA field in the Krishna Godavari basin. Reliance discovered oil in the fifth well it drilled on the 635-square kilometer CB-ONN-2003/1 block in the Cambay basin, a...

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Tata Motors begins trial production of Nano engines at Sanand plant

November 10, 2009
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Tata Motors begins trial production of Nano engines at Sanand plant

Tata Motors has begun trial production of Nano engines at its mother plant at Sanand in Gujarat. Though there is no official announcement from Tata Motors, Economic Times adds that the test production of 50-60 Nanos per day from January is on the cards and Tata Motors will also kick off its commercial production...

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