To reduce the burden of students attending to multiple examinations, AICTE has launched the first National level Common Management Admission Test (CMAT)-2012 and facilitate institutions to select suitable students for admission to all management programs approved by AICTE for year 2012-13. This initiative has been taken to address the issue of physical, mental and financial...
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Airtel hikes prepaid call tariffs by 20% in Gujarat and four other circles
Bharti Airtel has hiked call tariffs by 20 % in five of its leading circles including Gujarat for its prepaid subscribers which constitutes 95 % of the entire subscriber base. The hikes announced on Friday will be also be implemented in New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh circles. It will be implemented...
Now no need to pay extra for preferred seat in plane
From now on, you will not have to pay extra for your preferred seat on a domestic low-cost airline. IndiGo and SpiceJet charge between Rs 50 and Rs 750 for this service. JetLite and Kingfisher Red and Air India don’t charge extra for preferred seating. The Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked air...
Gujarat’s Atul Auto to enter four-wheeler segment
Rajkot based Atul Auto has announced its plans to enter into the four-wheeler commercial vehicle segment and has already started scouting for land near Ahmedabad to set up a plant with 50:50 joint venture. The company is scouting for land in Ahmedabad with around Rs 200 crore investment. The company is presently involved in...
Tata Motors secures order for 1,111 trucks from Surat based Siddhivinayak Logistics
Tata Motors in its largest order ever of medium and heavy commercial vehicles frp, single fleet owner last week secured an order for 1,111 medium and heavy trucks from Surat, Gujarat-based fleet owner Siddhivinayak Logistics (SVLL), one of the largest fleet owners in the country, with a fleet of over 2,000 CVs. These trucks...
Maruti Suzuki’s first car plant outside Haryana to come up in Gujarat’s Sanand:FE report
According to Financial Express report, the Gujarat government has taken a decision to allocate over 500 acre land near Sanand to the country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki to set up its third facility and its first outside Haryana. The plant, expected to be up and running by 2015, would cater mainly to export markets...
Then India’s first home made submarine could be made in Gujarat
A committee led by former Chairman of SAIL Dr. V. Krishnamurthy set up by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to study India’s much-delayed submarine programme has recommended opening up construction of submarines to the private sector and two shipyards recommended by the panel to build submarines in partnership with government owned companies as joint...
L&T wins Rs. 1,450 crore contract from GSPC
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a prestigious offshore process platform contract from Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) valued at Rs. 1,450 crore. GSPC awarded this offshore process cum living quarter’s platform project to L&T under international competitive bidding to meet its challenging target of production of hydrocarbon by July 2013 from KG Basin,...
Now you will get magazine to read in Rajdhani/Shatabdi/Duronto train
The Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee, has released ‘Rail Bandhu’ – an onboard magazine of Indian Railways here today. Also present on the occasion were Chairman, Railway Board, Shri Vivek Sahai and other senior officers of the Ministry of Railways. Rail Bandhu is a unique magazine to be distributed free on Rajdhani/Shatabdi Express trains...
IFFCO to produce Urea Ammonium Phosphate at Kandla
Indian Farmers Fertilisers Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) today said it will soon begin manufacturing a new fertiliser at its Kandla unit in Gujarat, which will have lower content of potash. “Keeping in view the highly unstable international potash prices, we have decided to manufacture a new-grade fertiliser at our Kandla Unit,” IFFCO Kandla’s Senior Executive...
Arvind Ltd, Tata Housing form JV for Ahmedabad project
Gujarat based apparel and textiles giant Arvind has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Tata Housing Development Company to develop an integrated township project in Ahmedabad. The residential cum commercial project, located on the western outskirts of Ahmedabad, is spread over 134 acres and will have a built up area of more than 9...
Export Grows 34.4% in April 2011: Commerce Secretary
India’s exports have registered a growth of 34.4% during April 2011, at US $ 23.9 billion. Stating this at a press interaction here today, Shri Rahul Khullar, Commerce Secretary, informed that during the interaction, with press, India’s imports in April 2011 were US $ 32.8 billion, which is up by 14.1% Balance of trade...