<B>SPOTLIGHT:</B> Funding profitable micro ventures won Mumbai-based Aavishkaar the coveted World Business Award, 2006.


Nurturing innovations

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The bill should indicate what taxable service has been provided.


Can a builder charge service tax?

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) has tied up with Tirupur Exporters Association in an attempt to develop a database of SME clusters.


A database for SMEs

While the overall pharmaceutical sector is expected to grow, small and medium units will find it more difficult to get a firm footing without investing in scale 


High on bulk drugs

'Our target is to cater to multinational companies' 


Leapfrogging

'We need to be more innovative to attract clients' 


Sanguine outlook

'Our plans revolve around strengthening our R&amp;D' 


Looking outwards

IT can help reduce the time to market drugs. 


Streamlining supply

Duty rates of drugs and cosmectic cause heartburn 


Cure or Care?

Most people attend parties and partake in conversations as mere social rituals. However, there are some who take insights out of these to make their fortune. S C Sehgal, managing director, Ozone

Beauty is skin deep

Need to challenge existing ways of business 


Innovative SMEs

A good business scenario rather than subsidies 


Role of Public Policy

The Karnataka government will create a secretariat for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the state to facilitate speedy redressal of their grievances, minister for small-scale industries Raju Gowda said.

K'taka plans separate secretariat for SMEs

Madhya Pradesh is to organise, for the first time, a day-long session for small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) in a forthcoming global investors&rsquo; meet. The SME segment, which remained neglected during the last few years, has outperformed the large and medium-scale sector.

SMEs provide more jobs than large firms in MP

The NSE, along with financial institutions like IL&amp;FS and IDBI, has proposed to set up a special exchange.


Small firms may get their own bourse

According to the DGFT policy, all time-barred applications should be processed with 5% late cut.


DEPB claims must come in 12 months

The 20 hubs include rice mills, wood-carving and honey-making units.


Bengal plans clusters to give SMEs competitive edge

The UP arm of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has developed a business concept, agri-tourism, to attract tourists and also help the farmers and the rural community of the state make money.

CII bets on agri-tourism in Uttar Pradesh

Net result: An increased overall production capacity and reduced manufacturing costs.


AP mini-cement units find ways to survive amidst bigger players

The small and medium IT and ITeS players in Chandigarh, who have been instrumental in making the city an important global information technology destination, could not get direct benefits with the

IT firms in Chandigarh want more space

As marquee investment banks Morgan Stanley, UBS, Rothschild, Goldman Sachs and others chase big-ticket deals in India, a clutch of boutique investment banks are looking to tap the opportunity in the

Banks eye small sector M&A

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