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Country facing difficult economic situation: PM

Country facing difficult economic situation: PM

New Delhi, Aug 29 (KNN)  Given the depleting value of the rupee which has set alarm bells ringing across the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh admitted…
India needs to enhance ease of doing biz to help rupee: WB Director

India needs to enhance ease of doing…

New Delhi, Aug 29 (KNN) India needs to expedite reforms and adopt global best practices to remove bottlenecks and enable speedy approvals,…
Govt to organise international seminar for promotion of handicrafts in Sept

Govt to organise international seminar for promotion…

New Delhi, Aug 29 (KNN) To provide a platform for the handicraft sector to interact with national and international experts on technology, manufacturing, packaging,…
Workshop in Amritsar to help SMEs reach 103 mn buyers globally via e-commerce

Workshop in Amritsar to help SMEs reach…

Amritsar, Aug 29 (KNN) In order to make Punjab based SMEs globally competitive via the internet, the Federation of Indian Export Organization (FIEO) in…
Laghu Udyog Bharati gets new president

Laghu Udyog Bharati gets new president

Bangalore, Aug 29 (KNN)  Laghu Udyog Bharati, an organisation that actively works for the betterment of micro and small industries has appointed H V S…
Banks eyeing MSMEs as lean times hit big corporates

Banks eyeing MSMEs as lean times hit…

New Delhi, Aug 27 (KNN)  With a large number of big corporates battling slowdown, more and more banks are eyeing the micro, small and medium enterprises…
IIIT-Bhubaneswar to get unitary university status

IIIT-Bhubaneswar to get unitary university status

Bhubaneswar, Aug 27 (KNN)  International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bhubaneswar will soon be given unitary university status with the…
Make 20% procurement mandatory, MSMEs to Karnataka Govt

Make 20% procurement mandatory, MSMEs to Karnataka…

Bangalore, Aug 27 (KNN)  Past President of the Federation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium  Enterprises (FISME) Mohan Suresh has urged the Karnataka…
BHEL move to cut imports will help domestic vendors

BHEL move to cut imports will help…

New Delhi, Aug 27 (KNN)   BHEL move to reduce imports of raw material equivalent to 30 per cent of its production cost will help…
ADB joins hands with Uttarakhand govt to re-build infra

ADB joins hands with Uttarakhand govt to…

Dehradun, Aug 27 (KNN) The Uttarakhand Government has joined hands with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to rebuild the infrastructure of the state.
Non-availability of fuel, raw material, power, skills, infra haunt ceramic industry

Non-availability of fuel, raw material, power, skills,…

Cuddalore, Aug 27 (KNN)  Tamil Nadu Ceramics and Refractories Manufacturer's Association (Tancerma) has been facing various challenges…
RBI increases rate of interest subvention from 2 to 3% on export credit

RBI increases rate of interest subvention from…

Mumbai, Aug 27 (KNN) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the rate of interest subvention from two to three per cent on pre and post-shipment rupee…
Blue Pottery of Jaipur faces extinction

Blue Pottery of Jaipur faces extinction

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New Delhi, Aug 26 (KNN) Blue Pottery of Jaipur is on the verge of extinction as over the years, master potters have…
Falling rupee to give short term benefit to bicycle exporters in India

Falling rupee to give short term benefit…

New Delhi, Aug 26 (KNN) Bicycle exporters to get short term benefit due to depreciating rupee value because in the long term, production cost will increase…
Surge in footwear imports from China

Surge in footwear imports from China

New Delhi, Aug 26 (KNN)  Import of footwear products from China have gone up by about USD 100 million in two years from 2010-11 to 2012-13, affecting…
Demand for exports sops to MSMEs to be placed before Board of Trade

Demand for exports sops to MSMEs to…

New Delhi, Aug 26 (KNN) India can lower its trade deficit if the government promotes production of capital goods and incentivizes value added products besides…
More handloom and handicrafts exhibitions in the offing

More handloom and handicrafts exhibitions in the…

New Delhi, Aug 26 (KNN)  The government plans to organize more textile design exhibitions to provide a boost to the handloom and handicraft sector and…
Rupee scare overplayed; pegging levels done by reckless people: ASSOCHAM poll

Rupee scare overplayed; pegging levels done by…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (KNN) The scare around depreciation of rupee has been over-played so much so that it completely over-awed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)…
Pushpak brings Czech re-locatable and acoustic partitions to India

Pushpak brings Czech re-locatable and acoustic partitions…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (KNN)  Liko-s relocatable and acoustic partitions for offices, known across Europe for their clean and green technology were launched…
Next round of growth will be driven by SMEs: NASSCOM President

Next round of growth will be driven…

New Delhi, Aug 24 (KNN)  Considering the large emerging workforce from small innovative companies, the industry should make every effort to provide services…