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		<title>Rationalise motor vehicle tax rates, urges minister</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a280105.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[To reduce transaction and logistic costs in the transportation sector Road Transport and Highways Minister C.P. Joshi Monday urged state governments to rationalise motor vehicle tax rates to facilitate easy movement of vehicles across the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>'More stringent laws against cartelisation needed'</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competition watchdog,he Competition Commission of India (CCI) is in favour of more stringent laws against formation of cartels as it affects consumers’ interest.
&quot;Cartelisation can become a criminal offence in India in future,&quot; CCI...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:09:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>India, Asean want to 'connect' in the physical, virtual world</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a280087.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) Monday began their year-long engagement with a Delhi Dialogue, where leaders emphasised on increased connectivity, not just through physical movement of goods and people, but in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:00:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Pre-paid Airtel customers to get detailed bills now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the Indian telecom regulator's instructions, Bharti Airtel Monday launched an online self-care service to provide its pre-paid mobile customers details of their account including bills.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:30:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>HCL bags deal from Norway-based Statoil</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HCL Technologies Monday said it had bagged an infrastructure management services deal from Norway-based energy firm Statoil.
&quot;This deal win reinforces HCL’s dominance in the Nordic region’s IT services market where it is already the global...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Record single day production at RSP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the state-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), Monday said it had registered its best ever single day production of hot metal.
The blast furnaces of the plant made 7,421 tonnes of hot metal Sunday, which...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:54:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Indian Oil Corporation's Q3 net profit up 52.2 percent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[State-owned Indian Oil Corporation Monday reported an increase of 52.2 percent in its net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31, 2011 at Rs.2,488.44 crore from Rs.1,634.76 crore in the like period of last fiscal.
The company said in a regulatory...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:54:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Vodafone chief Vittorio Colao meets Sibal</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a280009.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Vittorio Colao, chief executive of the world's largest mobile telephone operator, Vodafone Plc, met Communications Minister Kapil Sibal here Monday and is understood to have discussed the possible implications of the Supreme Court verdict cancelling...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:36:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Coal India's Q3 net up by 54 percent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[World’s largest coal miner Coal India Limited (CIL) Monday posted a 54 percent increase in its consolidated net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31 at Rs.40.38 billion from Rs.26.26 billion during the like period a year ago mainly due to price...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Eurozone crisis an opportunity for Indian IT: Expert</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279996.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[India's Information Technology sector is well placed to take advantage of the current Eurozone crisis as an increasing number of companies will look at &quot;offshoring&quot; as a way to cut their costs, says an expert with a leading...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:54:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>$500 billion black money hidden abroad: CBI (Roundup)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indians are the largest depositors in Swiss banks and have stashed away $500 billion in black money in overseas tax havens, but the government is finding it &quot;difficult&quot; to recover the ill-gotten wealth as other nations are not cooperating,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:45:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>CESC's Q3 net profit down 33 percent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power utility CESC Limited, an RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company, Monday reported a 32.73 percent dip in its net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31, 2011, which stood at Rs.74 crore from Rs.110 crore during the same period a year ago.
The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:15:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Over 200 Indian IT firms at Hyderabad expo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 200 Indian IT firms will display their solutions and products at Indiasoft 2012, the flagship IT event of Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC), to be held here March 21-23.
Over 400 foreign delegates from 50...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:06:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>SAIL quarterly net profit down 43 percent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[State-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) Monday posted a 43 percent decline in net profit for the quarter ended Dec 31, which stood at Rs.632 crore against Rs.1,107.47 crore during the like period of the previous financial year.
Total income...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:39:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Amway to commission its India manufacturing plant in 2014</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US-based direct selling fast moving consumer goods company Amway Corporation will commission its first own manufacturing centre in India in 2014, investing Rs.3 billion, a top company executive said Monday.
“The board of the company has approved...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:33:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>SBI's third quarter net profit up 15.38 percent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Bank of India Monday reported a 15.38 percent rise in net profit for the third quarter of the current fiscal at Rs.3,263.04 crore from Rs.2,828.06 crore in the like period of 2010-11.
The state-owned lender in a regulatory filing to the Bombay...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:30:04 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Reliance Power quarterly net profit rises 42 percent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reliance Power Ltd. Monday posted an increase of 42 percent in consolidated net profit at Rs.203.87 crore for the quarter ended Dec 31 against Rs.143.61 crore during the like period of the previous financial year.
Total income stood at Rs.674 crore...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:27:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Thai company to explore oil in Myanmar</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thailand’s state-owned PTT company will explore oil and gas in Myanmar's two onshore blocks, a media report said.
PTT Exploration and Production Plc, Thailand’s largest energy company, was last month awarded a licence for the PSC-G and EP2...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:12:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Myanmar foreign trade to grow by 30 percent</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279876.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar's foreign trade will grow by more than 30 percent to $16.1 billion in the 2011-12 fiscal year, the commerce ministry said. It was $12 billion in the previous fiscal.
Driven by increased natural gas exports, the trade volume hit $14 billion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:36:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>China to promote shale gas</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279869.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[China plans to increase efforts to explore shale gas in 2012.
This natural gas has become an important source of energy in the US over the past decade, and interest has spread to other countries with potential reserves. 
Shale gas deposits are found...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Rural job scheme causing farm labour shortage: Study</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279850.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[India’s flagship rural job scheme is causing a labour shortage, besides increasing farm production costs by about 20 percent, a study by a city-based research institute said Sunday.
The study by Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) said...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:21:03 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Will tailor rural roads scheme for northeast: Ramesh (Lead)</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279841.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A central rural roads scheme would be specially tailored for the northeastern states, where the low population in habitations prevents the launch of new projects, Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said Sunday.
The ministry is going to add...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:21:01 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Will tailor rural roads scheme for northeast: Ramesh</title>
		<link>http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a279823.html</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A central rural roads scheme would be specially tailored for the northeastern states, where the low population in habitations prevents the launch of new projects, Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said Sunday.
The ministry is going to add...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:48:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Toshiba JSW to export power turbines, generators</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese-Indian power equipment joint venture Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt Ltd will export its products from its plant here apart from catering to the domestic market, a senior company official said Sunday.
Speaking to reporters here after...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:30:02 +0530</pubDate>
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		<title>Business as usual for Indian companies in Maldives</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is business as usual for Indian companies and the economic interests of India are safe in the Maldives, wracked by political tumult and violence after the deposition of former president Mohamed Nasheed, diplomats and others said.
India is one of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:06:01 +0530</pubDate>
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