Blaming police for nonexecution of warrants issued by a court in Sandur against former minister and mining magnate G Janardhana Reddy, Karnataka government today assured the high court that action would be taken against them within a week.

Govt promises action against Reddy brothers

Press Trust of India

Apart from this, some of the key initiatives included checking land grab worth Rs 232 crore, reducing the price of LPG, creating a Vision 2025 document for the state, finding a solution for the Tirupur industry, and others.

Social sector tops agenda in first 100 days of TN govt

Business Standard

Monster, an online career and recruitment solutions provider which has its India headquarters based out of Hyderabad, has partnered V Skills, a testing and certification programme conducted by Intelligent Communication Systems India Limited (ICSIL).

Monster, VSkills partner to bridge employability gap

The Central Bureau of Investigation has intensified its inquiry against Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and the Emaar Group by reportedly questioning as many as 13 people, including government officials, on Wednesday.

CBI questions senior IAS official

It's not just the well-off engineers and MBAs who are taking to setting up own businesses, but also the hard-pressed agriculture graduates. Though government jobs are their first choice, these are hard to come by and never in large numbers.

Farm graduates turn grassroots entrepreneurs

After being overtaken in car sales by arch rival BMW last year, Benz is banking on new products and lines of businesses, like leasing, to regain its supremacy.

Benz fights back

The power ministry in West Bengal has invited bids for the largest renewable energy project in the country in Sunderbans, which is expected to see an investment of above Rs 90 crore, a top ministry official said here on Thursday.

Sunderbans renewable energy project on track

The Karnataka High Court, on Thursday rejected the petition filed by former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa seeking a stay on the prosecution process against him in a corruption case. The court also refused to grant him exemption from appearing before a special court of Lokayukta, which is hearing the corruption related complaints against him.

HC rejects Yeddyurappa's plea to stay prosecution process

The mentor group constituted to restore the glory of Presidency University, headed by eminent Harvard Professor Sugata Bose on Thursday submitted its report to the West Bengal government recommending a special status for the institute.

Mentor group suggests special status for presidency

Making a fresh appeal to Naxals to return to the mainstream, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday assured them that her government was trying to solve the problem in a peacefull way.

Mamata gives fresh call to Naxals to return to mainstream

The state steel &amp; mines department will review the pending cases of Renewal of Mining Leases (RML) in the state on Friday.

State to review mining lease renewal cases on Friday

To bring transparency in the mining operation, the state government has constituted state level committee (SLC) and district level committee (DLC) for survey and demarcation of the lease boundaries, digitalization of lease maps, superimposition of the satellite imagery with differential GPS (DGPS) survey map and its comparison with approved lease map and geo-referencing of mining maps.

Panel to demarcate mining lease boundaries

Kenn Morris America, a US-based immigration consultancy, on Thursday announced its services to facilitate permanent resident status for Indian emigrants to the US through the EB-5 visa.

Consultancy to facilitate permanent residence in US

The Karnataka government would soon bring out an exclusive land policy for allotment of land for wind energy projects. The policy will be modelled on Gujarat&rsquo;s policy and will be announced in the next two to three months, a top government official said.

Karnataka plans land use policy for wind energy

International Finance Corporation (IFC) would invest $11.5 million in Sparkle Port Services Ltd (SPSL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Ocean Sparkle Ltd (OSL). The total project cost is approximately $31.5 million for the acquisition of the tugboats and marine craft.

IFC to invest $11.5 mn in Sparkle Port Services

With 26 companies, state tops list of vanishing companies in the country.

Gujarat biggest home to vanishing companies

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch three nano satellites, including one from Luxembourg, and an advanced weather and climate research satellite, on board PSLV from Sriharikota spaceport next month. The other two nano &ldquo;piggyback&rdquo; satellites, which would be co-passengers of Megha-Tropiques, are one from SRM University and the other named &ldquo;Jugnu&rdquo; is a research spacecraft from IIT Kanpur, ISRO sources said.

ISRO to launch 3 nano spacecraft  aboard PSLV

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a conference on cloud computing, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), HP country sales head Sanjay Gupta said that construction of the data centre was on track and it would go on stream by the end of this year.

HP data centre in Bangalore by end-2011

Carlyle invests  in Jerry Rao's housing venture

Manappuram Jewellary Ltd (MJL) plans to increase the number retail showrooms to 50 by the end of this financial year and double it a two to three years. The group has earmarked Rs 3,000 crore for expansion.

Manappuram to expand network with Rs 3,000 cr investment

The ITeS sector in Tamil Nadu is expected to grow by 30 per cent in 2011-12, with export targeted to touch Rs 25,000 crore.

ITeS sector in TN expected to grow 30 pc in 2011-12

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