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Environmental media relations in the 21st century

Social media and crowdsourcing operate on a global scale. This breadth can work for or against a business depending on whether community discussions cast the company in a positive or negative light

Shalimar Paints appoints Surender Bhatia as COO

Sameer Nagpal, who had been the CEO and managing director of the company for about two years, has resigned

Reduce construction disputes to accelerate India's infrastructure roll-out

It is important to demystify the conundrum of construction disputes, so that India can accelerate its infrastructure growth and wasteful disputes are avoided

Use Capital Goods Scheme to bridge technology gaps: Anant Geete

Government working with countries like Germany, USA etc to liberalise the exports of dual use technologies that would benefit the capital goods sector, says the minister

Mega food park opens in Assam for food processing industry

The park expected to witness an additional investment of about Rs 250 crore in 30-35 food processing units and generate a turnover of about Rs 450-500 crore annually

Danfoss to set up refrigeration lab at Guindy ITI

As part of this agreement, Danfoss refrigeration and air conditioning lab will be set up at the institute premises to benefit more than 130 students over the next 3 years

Bosch and ARAI ink MoU to create automotive e-learning courses

They will develop e-learning modules for proficiency improvement programs (PIP) in the automotive domain

Mahindra World and Japan's Sumitomo form JV for industrial park in TN

The JV aims to develop an industrial park, with an estimated investment of Rs 375 cr and spread over 300 acres, at North Chennai

Crompton Greaves receives proposals to buy power businesses in US, Europe

The company has also received firm offers for Canadian Power and the American transportation automation businesses (formerly QEI Inc)

Siemens bags Rs 55 crore order in Algeria

The company won an order to supply high voltage circuit breakers from Algerien du Materiel Electrique et Gazier

Crompton Greaves bags orders from Portuguese energy firm

The company was selected as main supplier of data concentrators by Energias de Portugal (EDP), one of the major European operators in the energy sector

German keen to invest in hi-tech manufacturing in India

A study has identified opportunities and challenges in high-technology Indo-German collaboration, especially for dual use technologies where there are export controls

Chembond divests stake in JV with Henkel

Divestment was part of Chembond's strategy to invest in other businesses such as water treatment, construction chemicals, industrial coatings, animal nutrition and enzymes

Govt approves Rs 4500-cr ammonia-urea complex in Assam

The Cabinet also gave its nod for the revival of closed urea unit of Fertilizer Corporation India Limited (FCIL) at Sindri (Jharkhand) with an investment of Rs 6,000 crore

Dutch firm Odournet smells big opportunity in odour management in India

With CPCB planning to implement odour emission norms, the company sees increase in demand for odour evaluation & management in the country

Mahindra Group to acquire 33% stake in Japan's Mitsubishi Agricultural Machinery

This deal will enable strategic growth avenues for MAM, which has been providing OEM tractors to Mahindra USA and technical license to Mahindra for rice planters & tractor in India

Machine tool maker BFW buys Proteck Machinery's turning business

With this acquisition, BFW aims to strengthen its position in the machine cutting sector

Steel Strips Wheels bags exports order from Canada

This order volumes are expected to go up to 40,000 wheels next year with total value of around $ 1 million per annum

Alstom and NASL bag Rs 206 cr contract to retrofit steam turbines in Gujarat

Contract has been awarded for the renovation and modernisation of two steam turbines at the Ukai and Wanakbori thermal power stations, both situated in Gujarat

Growth in agriculture, industry and services sectors can go hand-in-hand: Arvind Panagariya

While the government is reorienting public investment in agriculture to increase productivity, it is paying special attention to creating jobs in industry and services, he said in his blog on NITI Aay