Although India grows more than 10 per cent of the world's tobacco, our value share of the $11-billion global tobacco leaf export trade is only 5 per cent, according to a Tobacco Institute of India

The North Eastern Tea Association (NETA), an organisation of tea planters in Upper Assam, has asked the Government of India to declare tea as a national drink.

Chandigarh Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal strongly urged members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on commerce to take up various pending issues of the state, including industrial package on the lines of hill states, setting up of steel silos, package for agro industries development, relaxation of the norms to set up SEZs and export of brown rice and Kinnow, with the central gover

The North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) has called upon the State Government to be

BHUBANESWAR: Despite the raging issues of land acquisition and local resistance, industrialisation has gone off in a big way in the State.

With the Nitish Kumar government giving its nod to the new Industrial Promotion Policy, 2011, the decks have been cleared for big ticket investments even as the fate of investment proposals worth around Rs 1 lakh crore hangs fire due to alleged non-cooperation from the Centre.

The new policy, effective July 1, 2011, will replace the Industrial Policy of 2006 much before its extended term expire