Archive for December, 2007
« Previous EntriesNew airports, bigger refineries and a smaller car
Monday, December 31st, 2007The new year promises to be a busy year with brand new airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore, the launch of the Rs 1-lakh-car, unlocking of the gas riches in the Krishna-Godavari basin, and Jamnagar housing the world’s biggest refinery complex.
10 things you can expect in 2008
Monday, December 31st, 2007As the New Year dawns, these 10 ambitious projects of the state government give people hope for a better year ahead. Digital meters: Autorickshaws will run with new digital meters from February 1. So far, digital meters have been installed in 20,000 autos in the city.
AP gets back Gurukul land
Monday, December 31st, 2007The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday upheld the Andhra Pradesh Tenancy Laws (amendment Act 28 of 2002) Act. This will enable the state government to retain the Gurukul Ghatkesar Trust land surrounding Hitec City, which it took over from encroachers.
CM wants expressway at express speed
Monday, December 31st, 2007Expressing unhappiness over slow progress of work on roads and overbridges which connect the city to the new Shamshabad international airport scheduled to be inaugurated on March 16, CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy said tenders of contractors who delay the work beyond a point would be cancelled.
Pharma City on course?
Monday, December 31st, 2007Normally a project of this magnitude would have invited resistance from several quarters but surprisingly, the plan for the Pharma City project launched in 2004 has gone down well with opposition parties except for a murmur of protest over the blanket environmental clearance.
NRI remittances stay buoyant
Monday, December 31st, 2007Current account deficit at $5.5 b in September quarter; exports slow down
The private transfers, comprising primarily remittances from NRIs, nearly doubled at $10.08 billion for the July–September 2007 quarter, against $5.37 billion in the same period last year as per the Balance of Payment figures released by the Reserve Bank of India on Monday.
Radio Taxis Set To Storm Airports, Cities In South
Monday, December 31st, 2007As a part of its ambitious expansion, Carzonrent India Private Limited plans to tap the market in south Indian cities by launching its popular radio taxi services.
Selling A Luxury Home Isn’t About The Space, It Is About The Lifestyle
Monday, December 31st, 2007Dressed for the occasion, you face a group of equally polished people across the negotiating table. They grill you on your background, your career, your income and your prospects. Satisfied with your replies, they sit back and smile. You are in.
Farnborough style: India to fly with own airshow
Monday, December 31st, 2007India will soon enter the global airshow map with Hyderabad’s soon to be phased out Begumpet Airport all set to become the Indian Farnborough, where airshows would be regularly held.
SemIndia Focuses On Broadband Gear As Fab City Project Is Delayed
Monday, December 31st, 2007Hyderabad-based SemIndia Systems Pvt. Ltd, a unit of a company with plans to make semiconductor chips, intends to start making next generation wireless routers and other home computer networking equipment by the first quarter of 2008 and follow it up with high volume production of low-cost direct-to-home and other television set top boxes two months […]
Not Yet ‘Fab’ulous
Monday, December 31st, 2007The government’s fab policy, intended to encourage chip manufacturing in India, has not quite hit its target. While the government has received proposals worth $6.2 billion, none are for setting up chip manufacturing. In fact, SemIndia, which had announced plans to set up a $3-billion chip-making facility in Hyderabad, has not yet submitted its proposal. […]
IT Parady - Anukokunda O Mandu Party
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Watch this well made Telugu fun skit by Tri-PODers. This video has got some very funny laughing moments. Actors: Sriram, Raj Gopal, Krishna Chaitanya Saride
Anukokunda O Mandu Party - Part 1
Anukokunda O Mandu Party - Part 2
NH-5 to be partly six-laned
Sunday, December 30th, 2007National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken up survey to convert 1,100 km of four-lane highway into six lanes from Itchapuram to Tada by the year 2013.
Andhra Pradesh Zooms Ahead In Investment Lane
Sunday, December 30th, 2007WHEN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the pearl city in July 2007 and took stock of the status of over a dozen projects in Andhra Pradesh, his finance minister P Chidambaram was categorical that Andhra Pradesh was heading for an investment boom.
Suven Gets 1st US Product Patent
Sunday, December 30th, 2007SUVEN Life Sciences on Thursday announced that it has received its first US product patent for compounds it is developing to treat disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), sending its shares up nearly 20% on the BSE.
Hyderabad: GHMC to bulldoze ‘Sky Walks’
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Photo Courtesy: NDTVÂ
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Hyderabad is one of the sought after cities for education in engineering but the seven blunders that have come up in the city in the last one-year, built by the municipal corporation are perhaps reason to wonder.
Kanoria Chemicals Setting Up Rs 150-Cr Unit In Vizag
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Kanoria Chemicals & Industries is setting up a Rs 150-crore manufacturing plant at Vizag, its third in the country, and is also looking at a greenfield opportunity overseas.
Fabacres.com makes its initial foray in Hyderabad and Bangalore
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Fabacres.com is a India real estate portal which has been produced after extensive research on the browsing patterns and needs of the consumers. Fabacres.com is set to become India’s best real estate portal, with unique features such as verified properties,
No more reduction in road width: SCB
Sunday, December 30th, 2007The road widening project of Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) seems to be getting narrower by the day as the board is under pressure from the residents whose properties are to be affected. The SCB has twice reduced the proposed width of roads.
No Free Insurance Cover On Credit Cards
Saturday, December 29th, 2007If you’ve been banking on the insurance cover that came free with your credit card, it’s time to evaluate that. Most credit cards offered by banks no longer have a free insurance (life or non-life) cover and many customers may not have read the fine print to realise that they no longer have insurance protection. […]
GHMC Videographers To Catch ‘Scheming’ Builders
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Builders hoping to take advantage of the scheme of regularisation by undertaking unauthorised constructions before the notification in this regard is issued should give up such ideas. For videographers engaged by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) might spy on you and record any such illegal activities.
RESIDEX, A Benchmark For All Stakeholders
Saturday, December 29th, 2007This is India’s first housing price index. It will guide home buyers and other stakeholders in the industry, says Padma Ramakrishnan.
You could see it as a Sensex for residential house prices. Residex, India’s first housing residential price index compiled by the National Housing Bank (NHB), will give an indicative trend of the prices of properties […]
Taare Zameen Par…Every Child Is Special
Saturday, December 29th, 2007I am bored to see the movies that are coming these days, which are regular, rotten formula-based, old stories re-made with minor changes, improper screenplay, non-sense dialogues etc etc. And then I happened to watch the movie “Taare Zameen Par” yesterday, and what a wonderful heart-touching movie it is..!! It is very rarely do we […]
Construction resources touch new heights
Friday, December 28th, 2007Spate of building activity has given a boost to construction material prices, says ABHIJIT DEV KUMAR
Skyrocketing prices: With construction activity touching a new peak prices of building materials are climbing the ladder.
HUDA Changing And Adapting With Times
Friday, December 28th, 2007From a planning and layout development agency to meet the residential requirements, HUDA has donned many roles, says M. L. MELLY MAITREYI.
Photo Courtesy: The Hindu
Future ahead: HUDA over the years has been focussing on infrastructure development
Waiting for the demand to go up
Friday, December 28th, 2007It is estimated that a whopping 88 million square feet of new residential space will come up by 2012
Finding a NOOK: The demand for residential space is set to pick up.
The real-estate sector in Hyderabad might have become sluggish as compared to the situation in last two years, but the outlook for the next five […]
New vistas of advertising real estate
Friday, December 28th, 2007A decade back, the role of ‘middlemen’ in traditional Indian marriages was of utmost importance. These days, marriage websites hold the sway. This analogy is fitting enough to describe the future of portals in the country which are entirely dedicated to advertising real estate.
Japanese loan for 29 ORR radial roads
Friday, December 28th, 2007Twenty-nine radial roads proposed to connect the core city with the ambitious Outer Ring Road will be taken up with a loan from the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC). The bank has reportedly agreed, in principle, to extend Rs 350 crore as loan for the purpose.
Test runs of GMR Hyderabad airport cargo facility soon
Friday, December 28th, 2007As the GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL) readies itself for commercial launch in March 2008, the GHIAL-Menzies joint venture, which is setting up a 10-acre cargo facility there, is busy preparing for test runs of the hi-tech facility shortly.
ITC setting up new facility in Hyderabad
Friday, December 28th, 2007To produce elemental chlorine-free paperboards.
ITC Limited is setting up a 25,000-tonne per annum capacity facility at a cost Rs 35 crore at its Bollaram unit in Hyderabad for production of elemental chlorine-free (ECF) paperboards to be used for manufacture of paper cups.