Bangalore, Sep 3 – Indian IT bellwether Wipro has teamed up with global enterprise software products firm Oracle to offer a warranty management and analytics solution for industrial manufacturing, automotive and high-tech industries, the company said late Friday. ‘By leveraging our industry expertise with Oracle’s Siebel customer relationship management (CRM) applications, we will help streamline [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Delhi Metro’s Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link, which connects the city’s north with its satellite town of Gurgaon in Haryana, was a huge hit among the public Friday with over 32,000 footfalls within a few hours of its opening. According to a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) spokesperson, about 32,000 people [...]
Panaji, Sep 3 – In an indirect criticism of the state government, a top official of Sesa Goa (SG) – a Vedanta Resources-owned mining company based in Goa – Friday said it was virtually impossible to fight illegal mining in Goa because of ‘issues faced in pursuing such matters’. Speaking at a function on ‘Mining [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – It was a day of desires being fulfilled for residents of south Delhi with the opening of the Metro’s Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar section, connecting north Delhi to the satellite town of Gurgaon. As the 12.53 km Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link was thrown open to the public Friday afternoon, thousands of [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – With Delhi Metro now reaching the capital’s south, its managing director E. Sreedharan Friday took the opportunity to ride a train on the newly-opened Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar corridor while going back home. Sreedharan, who resides in Metro Enclave of south Delhi’s Pushp Vihar locality, boarded the train at Barakhamba metro [...]
Bangalore, Sep 3 – Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Friday said his government had issued two mining licences only for value addition and renewed leases to eight companies in accordance with its new mining policy. ‘We have recommended to the central government, issue of licences to state-run Hutti Gold Mines Ltd in Raichur district for [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Ratan Tata, chairman of India’s multinational company, Tata Group has said he has an ‘affinity’ to South Africa and the firm is expected to increase its focus on Africa with a slew of new business launches being drawn up. ‘In India, we believe in destiny. I find that I have [...]
Mumbai, Sep 3 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday assured a delegation of top Congress leaders that he would personally look into the issue of the proposed new international airport in Navi Mumbai which is entangled in a controversy over environmental issues. The assurance was given to a delegation led by Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 3 – A cabin crew shortage has forced Air India Express to cancel a number of its flights from three airports in Kerala to various destinations in the Middle East from next week. An Air India spokesperson here told IANS that the cancellations would begin from next week and would be there till [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 3 – A leading US-based cattle genetics marketing organisation Friday announced it will be working closely with Punjab farmers to promote dairy farming and help the state in achieving success with the ‘white revolution’. World Wide Sires (WWS) Ltd, which represents the Artificial Insemination Cooperatives (AIC), Accelerated Genetics, a farmers-owned largest cooperative in [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Czech automobile major SkodaAuto Friday said its monthly sales in August grew by 24 percent to 1,511 vehicles and that it intends to launch its Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) YETI later this year. The growth in sales was due to the success of its brands, Superb and Laura, the company [...]
Mumbai, Sep 3 – A benchmark index for Indian equities closed almost flat Friday in volatile but range-bound trade. Broader markets, however, continued to see robust buys. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 18,238.03 points, closed at 18,221.43 points, 16.88 points or 0.09 percent down from its [...]
Chennai, Sep 3 – A decision on reinstating 35 dismissed workers of the Hyundai Motor India was deferred for the third time Friday to Sep 13, with Tamil Nadu Labour Minister T.M. Anbarasan seeking more time to prepare a report on the issue. ‘Today (Friday) the Labour Minister Anbarasan attended the meeting and asked for [...]
Lucknow, Sep 3 – In a bid to placate agitating farmers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday announced a new land acquisition policy which offers several sops to the people whose lands are acquired. ‘The UP (Uttar Pradesh) government has come out with the best land acquisition policy, which beats any other state in the [...]
Jaipur, Sep 3 – The Rajasthan government Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with International Finance Corporation (IFC) to attract private investment, generate opportunities for small businesses and support job creation in the state. The MoU was signed by Sunil Arora, principal secretary in the industries department, and Anil Sinha, general manager, advisory services, [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – India’s slum population is projected to rise to 93.06 million by 2011, or 7.75 percent of the total population, say a report of an expert committee set up by the housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry. The report of the committee on slum statistics, headed by Pranob Sen, the principal [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – General Motors India Friday said it will commission a 160,000-unit powertrain engine plant at its Talegaon manufacturing facility in Maharashtra by this year-end. ‘This will be the first flexi-engine plant for General Motors globally wherein both petrol and diesel small car engines are going to be manufactured together,’ the company [...]
Kolkata, Sep 3 – Tide Water Oil Co (India) would decide on a follow-on public offer (FPO) only after the government formally confirms that the state-owned Andrew Yule & Co will not divest its 26 percent stake in the company, a top official said here Friday. ‘The disinvestment of Andrew Yule’s stake in Tide Water [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – India Friday urged Ghana to sign at the earliest a bilateral treaty aimed at protecting and promoting their investments in each other’s territories. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who is visiting Ghana as part of India’s ‘Focus Africa’ policy to explore new markets in the African continent, made the [...]
Srinagar, Sep 3 – The Srinagar international airport was closed for a fortnight Friday to carry out repairs to the runway, officials said. As an alternate arrangement, all commercial flight operators would now carry out their operations from south Kashmir’s Awantipora Air Base of the Indian Air Force, 25 km from here, until the runway [...]
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