The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Satyam Computer founder B Ramalinga Raju and seven others accused in the multi-crore accounting fraud at the IT outsourcing company.

Raju denied bail again

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday submitted a report to the special court informing that several of the firms allegedly made investments into companies promoted by Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy exist only on paper.

Several firms exist only on paper: CBI

Venture Capital firm Sequoia Capital India is exploring opportunities to invest in agricultural companies.

Sequoia Capital eyes agri companies

Visakha Industrial Water Supply Company (Viwsco), which supplies water to local industries and the Visakhapatnam Corporation, has decided to enhance the charges by more than 125 per cent.

Viwsco to hike water charges

The state government on Monday urged the Union ministry of Railways to allocate 291 rakes to the fertiliser companies to transport the allotted stocks to the state for August and September. The Central government has allocated 448,900 tonnes of fertiliser to Karnataka for August and the state requires another 503,800 tonnes for September.

K'taka asks Rlys to provide rakes to move fertiliser

Most of the private and unaided management colleges in the Punjab region have this year found it tough to fill the seats, courtesy a general slump in the students&rsquo; enthusiasm about the courses.

Management courses in Punjab find less takers

The new West Bengal Chief Minister has set a scorching pace, drafting a new land policy and overhauling Presidency College.

A 100 days of Mamata

An Australian national and pioneer of heli-skiing in the Indian Himalayas for the past 20 years has been ordered to leave India within two weeks for violating visa rules by the Himachal Pradesh police on Tuesday.

Heli-skiing pioneer ordered to leave India for flouting visa rules

Volkswagen Group India is planning a pan-Indian transfer of knowledge on its latest automotive technologies to the employees at its dealerships, by opening three regional training centres outside Maharashtra.

Volkswagen to set up 3 training centres for dealership employees

Venus Remedies has received market authorisation (MA) for its anti-cancer product, Docetaxel, the leading research-based global pharmaceutical company that specialises in oncology, cephalosporins and neurosciences said on Tuesday.

Venus secures market for anti-cancer product

India&rsquo;s premier Indian Institute of Management, Kanpur (IIT-K) partnered with digital media company Yahoo India to organise University Hack Day event &lsquo;HACK U&rsquo; in the campus.

IIT-K partners with Yahoo for hacking competition

In a unique initiative ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttarakhand which are due in February next year, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has released a growth agenda for all political parties with an aim to sustain the growth momentum.

CII's new growth agenda for Uttarakhand

The Budget for 2011-12 will be presented, as it usually is, on February 28. But a group of extremely unusual individuals will have been involved in creating the Budget. Here&rsquo;s a look at who they really are.

Getting to know Pranab's Budget team

Though India has been taken off the entity list, it has merely been taken off the denied list and put in the enabled list. &ldquo;It does not take away from the government rule or government law as far as dual use is concerned,&rdquo; Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister V K Saraswat had said here.

Indian entities still not completely off US watch list

Bangalore-based real estate developer Prestige Estates Projects Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 54.37 crore in the third quarter of the present financial year.

Prestige net at Rs 54.37 cr in Q3

The results of the latest census on tigers in India will be out by March-end this year.

Tigers are now safe in India: New census report

Maxx Medical, a Singapore based medical device company with global research and manufacturing facilities in the US, is banking on its Freedom Total Knee System (Freedom Knee) that has been customised for Indian anatomical needs to emerge as one of the top 3 players in the Indian knee replacement market within the next three years.

Maxx Medical aims Top 3 slot in knee replacement systems

Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (GFL) has registered a net profit of Rs 33.65 crore for the third quarter ended December 2010 down by 25.8 per cent against Rs 45.35 crore registered in December 2009. The company informed that the income for the third quarter declined by around 8.9 per cent to Rs 227.38 crore from Rs 249.67 crore registered in the corresponding period a year ago. The net sales fell for the quarter by 12.88 per cent at Rs 216.74 crore from Rs 248.79 crore a year back.

GFL Q3 net dips 25%

After a long hibernation from active politics, Uma Bharati today surfaced in public to officially announce her support for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh. While making it clear that BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and L K Advani had requested her to rejoin BJP, Bharati said she would restrict herself to the &ldquo;non-political&rdquo; arena to launch a nationwide movement to protect farmers and cows.

Uma Bharati's movement to protect farmers, cows

Vadodara Municipal Corporation today proposed 120 per cent hike in property tax and 25 per cent hike in water charges for commercial units. The hike in property tax would yield Rs 35 crore and that for water charges would generate additional income of Rs 2 crore.

Commercial units to pay more taxes in Vadodara

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The state-of-the-art Infosys campus in Pune will now be provided security by a special commando-trained unit of more than 130 CISF personnel to thwart any possible terror attack or sabotage.

Infosys Pune campus gets CISF security

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