Crisis hit state-owned carrier Air India on Wednesday said its net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, declined by 9.7% to Rs 1,473.85 crore against Rs 1,632.23 registered during the corresponding period in the previous year.
The government will divest its stake in three shipping companies—Cochin Shipyard, Shipping Corp of India and Dredging Corp of India —in the next fiscal,a top shipping ministry official said.
India should have an efficient regulatory body and well defined protocols for dealing with the deployment of nanotechnology, handling, movement and approval of nano products.
The financial burden on users of national highways is likely to come down soon. A negative feedback from the commuters has forced the ministry of road transport & highways to propose changes in the existing rules for tolling of two-lane highways.
An empowered group of ministers, chaired by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, has decided that a new mechanism should be evolved to calculate a “reasonable” return on equity a company can seek to develop a highway project on annuity basis.