Tata Power SED wins order for supply of night vision to BSF

Tata Power's Strategic Engineering Division (Tata Power SEP) has won an order from Border Security Force for supply of night vision hand-held thermal imagers.
BSF is using hand held thermal imaging systems and has selected through a global tender, Tata Power SED's Rajak TBC DN-1 multifunction thermal imager after extensive field trials, the company said in a statement.
However, the company did not disclose financial details of the order.
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Mobile app for visually challenged launched
Thiruvananthapuram: Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF), the corporate social responsibility arm of Amway India, has launched a mobile application for the benefit of the visually-challenged persons.

The app, Accessible Reader, leverages available text-to-speech engines and makes it convenient for the visually impaired to read digital documents, an AOF release said here today.

The AOF has taken this initiative in line with the the Central government's Accessible India campaign, which focuses on increasing the availability of Information & technology for differently abled people, it said.
The app was launched on the sidelines of the inauguration of a full-fledged Computer Training Centre at the premises of National Association for the Blind here.
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Apollo Hospitals, William Osler sign MoU * Healthcare service provider Apollo Hospitals has signed a memorandum of understanding with William Osler Health System for undertaking joint research and providing patient care.

"Through the collaboration, scientists at the two organisations will begin by identifying areas of cooperation, collaboration and innovation particularly around the range of diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases that are highly prevalent among the population in the region", a press release said.
The two would initiate a pilot project under which it would identify patients and provide them with an option of going to Apollo and Osler hospitals in India or in Canada.
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IOL chemicals & pharmaceuticals posts Rs 1.12 cr profit in Q4 * IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals today posted a net profit of Rs 1.12 crore for the quarter ended on March 31, 2016. The company had reported a net loss of Rs 28.05 crore in the same period of 2014-15 fiscal.

Total income for operations jumped to Rs 142.46 crore in the January-March quarter of 2015-16 financial year from Rs 75.27 crore in the same period of 2014-15 fiscal, the company said in a regulatory filing.
Shares of the company today closed at Rs 102.55 per cent on BSE, up by 6.99 per cent.