* AGRICULTURE: India Meteorological Department says India Jun 1-19 rainfall 130.7 mm, 54% above normal.
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* AVIATION: British Airways is offering economy class return fares from India to London and New York 35-60% lower than that of JET AIRWAYS.
Air Costa has signed an agreement to acquire three E-Jets from Embraer S.A.as it plans to launch its services in July.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh is set to consult senior Airbus and Boeing executives to identify executives to head Air India 's maintenance, repair
and overhaul unit.
Air India is planning to charge for all meals onboard on domestic flights.
* DISASTER: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a 10-bln-rupee rehabilitation package for the flood-affected people of Uttarakhand.
* DIVESTMENT: SEBI has approved allotment of shares at a discount to employees of those PSUs in which government has divested its stake through offer for sale.
* FERTILISER: The fertiliser department has accepted a pricing formula that provides marginally higher value than the gas price proposed by the oil
ministry, a draft cabinet note said.
* MINING: The Odisha government has decided to review the status of projects of Vedanta Resources, Aditya Aluminium and RSB Metaltech, which together entail an investment of 300 bln rupees, later this month.
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam is now more secure on the raw material front as the Rajasthan government has agreed to allot the Bhilwara iron ore mines and the
Andhra government has allocated the Bayyaram mines in Khammam district.
* PHARMACEUTICALS: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority will change the ceiling prices of medicines which brought down average prices of painkillers,antibiotics, and cardiac drugs by around 30% after the authority concludes its data collection exercise.
* POWER: Heavy rains and flooding in North India have switched off nearly 4,000 MW of hydropower generation.
Gujarat will invest around 15 bln rupees in the next three years in order to strengthen its power distribution and transmission infrastructure and reduce losses.
* STEEL: An environment ministry panel has revalidated the clearance granted to POSCO's 4-mln-tn integrated steel plant at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha.
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* TELECOM: Government may initially infuse 10 bln rupees in the proposed Telecom Finance Corp to address funding challenges facing the sector.
* TRANSPORT: India and World Bank have entered into a $216-mln agreement for Kerala transport project.
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* AVIATION: British Airways is offering economy class return fares from India to London and New York 35-60% lower than that of JET AIRWAYS.
Air Costa has signed an agreement to acquire three E-Jets from Embraer S.A.as it plans to launch its services in July.
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh is set to consult senior Airbus and Boeing executives to identify executives to head Air India 's maintenance, repair
and overhaul unit.
Air India is planning to charge for all meals onboard on domestic flights.
* DISASTER: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has announced a 10-bln-rupee rehabilitation package for the flood-affected people of Uttarakhand.
* DIVESTMENT: SEBI has approved allotment of shares at a discount to employees of those PSUs in which government has divested its stake through offer for sale.
* FERTILISER: The fertiliser department has accepted a pricing formula that provides marginally higher value than the gas price proposed by the oil
ministry, a draft cabinet note said.
* MINING: The Odisha government has decided to review the status of projects of Vedanta Resources, Aditya Aluminium and RSB Metaltech, which together entail an investment of 300 bln rupees, later this month.
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam is now more secure on the raw material front as the Rajasthan government has agreed to allot the Bhilwara iron ore mines and the
Andhra government has allocated the Bayyaram mines in Khammam district.
* PHARMACEUTICALS: The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority will change the ceiling prices of medicines which brought down average prices of painkillers,antibiotics, and cardiac drugs by around 30% after the authority concludes its data collection exercise.
* POWER: Heavy rains and flooding in North India have switched off nearly 4,000 MW of hydropower generation.
Gujarat will invest around 15 bln rupees in the next three years in order to strengthen its power distribution and transmission infrastructure and reduce losses.
* STEEL: An environment ministry panel has revalidated the clearance granted to POSCO's 4-mln-tn integrated steel plant at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha.
.
* TELECOM: Government may initially infuse 10 bln rupees in the proposed Telecom Finance Corp to address funding challenges facing the sector.
* TRANSPORT: India and World Bank have entered into a $216-mln agreement for Kerala transport project.
