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After wheat fiasco, FCI cuts rice target

This is despite the 92.3-mt rice crop forecast by the government in the first advance estimates

Farmers expect better paddy crop this year

Favourable monsoon and better farm management practices likely to help production

Capital Local Area Bank makes hay in Punjab's virgin market

Has secured the Reserve Bank's approval to expand into more districts of the state

Rajnath accuses UPA for not initiating diplomatic dialogue

BJP president says economic, diplomatic and internal and external security was in jeopardy

Small, medium hotels in HP worried over new tax formula

Himachal Pradesh's hotel industry wants the state government to withdraw the proposal, because tourism is the backbone of the state's economy

Enabling Indians to begin a new innings abroad

In 15 years, about 100,000 families have emigrated by utilising the services of WWICS

Declining rupee a conundrum for scientific instruments manufacturers

The education aid provided by the UN to the developing nations helps the firms in getting orders for export

Falling rupee brings profits, challenges for small IT exporters

Weak rupee casts its shadow on overseas education plans

The number of applicants has dropped by up to 25% due to the declining currency

Land Bill: Punjab industry worry of slowdown in business

Punjab missed the investment proposals of a couple of corporate giants in textiles and automobile sector in the past few years due to unviable land cost

HDFC Bank to open 300 branches

Bank is only awaiting approval from RBI for the new branches; hopes move will strengthen presence in retail banking

Garment exporters fail to capitalise on rupee fall

Half exposure was hedged when dollar was at Rs 62, now importers want to renegotiated prices after rupee's fall

Small brokers resorting to cost cutting

Vikson Securities has a network of 200 outlets in tier two towns Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat

Punjab SMEs oppose e-TRIP system

Cong MP from Gurgaon blames Hooda govt for shady land deals

Alleges that state hand in glove with real estate developers, property consultants

Designing buildings with a soul is this architect's passion

Namita Singh believes the design must blend with the local climate, topography and availability of raw material

Panel ban on GM crop trials upsets farmers

The introduction of BT cotton helped the farmers to earn a decent living

Eye Q to expand in tier two towns

Eye Q Super Speciality Eye Hospitals plans to have 35 eye hospitals by September 2013

Tool rooms to revive SMEs in Haryana

A tool room provides tools, moulds and dies, which play an importatant role in several sectors of manufacturing

Low IPR awareness costing Indian SMEs heavily

All states in India now have patent facilitation centres and SMEs need to consult them to find out how they can benefit from them