LEA Associates South Asia, a Canadian consultancy firm, has been selected as the traffic consultant by Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) for designing junction improvements for the three metro rail corridors.

Canada's LEA is traffic consultant for metro

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Megasoft Limited, a product-based technology company, is planning to scale up its research and development (R&amp;D) manpower by 40 per cent in the current financial year.

Megasoft to ramp up R&D headcount

With the Left Front in West Bengal facing its toughest challenge in the upcoming Assembly elections, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today admitted that some CPI-M leaders were behaving &quot;arrogantly&quot;, which had earned a bad name for his party.

CM admits 'arrogant behaviour' alienated people

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&rsquo;s largest information technology (IT) company, is eyeing IT infrastructure related opportunities through government contracts in developing countries in the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America.

TCS eyes e-gov contracts in Africa and Latin America

Jharkhand is likely to establish a sports university drawing facilities from the Mega Sports Complex equipped with Rs 10,000 crore sports facility for the 34th National Games which inaugurated by the state Governor M O H Farook on Saturday evening.

Jharkhand likely to set up sports university

Karnataka government is all set to commission third unit of 700 MW of the Bellary Thermal Power Station (BTPS) by July, 2014 in its bid to ease the severe power shortage in the state.

Unit III of Bellary power station by 2014

Mysore-headquartered Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) has become the second biggest distance university in the country, after the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

KSOU enrolment to cross 200,000 in 2011

City-based Premier Solar has signed a contract for import of 200,000 thin film modules &mdash; which can provide for generation of 20 Mw &mdash; from German manufacturer Schott Solar. Of these, Premier would receive 10 Mw worth modules in August this year, with the rest to be taken in 2012. The total value of the modules is around Rs 200 crore.

Premier Solar signs pact with German firm

Global private equity majors NEA and Providence Equity Partners are understood to have evinced keen interest to pick up stake in FIITJEE, a pan-India test preparation company for engineering and medical entrance examinations. According to investment bankers close the deal, FIITJEE is looking to raise Rs 200 crore from its third round of private equity funding.

Providence, NEA plan to buy stake in FIITJEE

The Pesticides Manufacturers and Formulators&rsquo; Association of India (PMFAI) has alleged that the move by the European Union (EU) to push for a global ban on Endosulfan &ndash; a broad-spectrum pesticide active ingredient &ndash; was intended at benefiting the European crop protection industry.

Pesticide makers body against ban on Endosulfan

Jantakhoj Infoservices, a city-based people search and employee background verification (BGV) services startup, is planning to add 50 corporate customers to its existing clientele of 28 by the end of this calendar.

Jantakhoj to add 50 more clients this year

The Advertising Club Cochin and the Pepper Creative Awards Trust jointly announced the fifth edition of Pepper Creative Awards, the largest creative awards in south India and the second largest in India. A panel of eminent personalities from India&rsquo;s creative world will evaluate the entries&nbsp;of the competitions.

Ad club Cochin calling entries for Pepper Creative awards

Sukhoi, better known for its fighter jets in India, has this time brought its newly-developed medium-haul aircraft to the Aero India 2011 and has left the people looking at it in disbelief.

Sukhoi's passenger jet vies for space

Gujarat government has initiated talks with the Centre to import Congo fever vaccines from Bulgaria, and has put plans of coming up with an indigenous vaccine manufacturing facility on the back-burner.

Guj mulls import  of Congo fever vaccine from Bulgaria

In order to cater to the growing demand for micro-irrigation systems and piping systems in Gujarat. Jain Irrigation Systems (JISL), a Maharashtra-based leading company in micro irrigation space, has inaugurated its micro-irrigation plant at Sihor in Bhavnagar district.

Jain Irrigation inaugurates micro-irrigation unit in Bhavnagar

In a bid to ease salt supplies from Gujarat to the remaining parts of the country, the salt manufacturers are awaiting a green signal from the ministry of railways for purchase of separate rakes. On the other hand, the government of Gujarat has agreed to provide partial financial assistance for the rakes.

ISMA awaits green signal for salt rakes

GJM movement leaders were in contact with extremist groups of the northeast and procuring arms from them, he said.

GJM procuring arms from NE rebels: Minister

32% growth in Indian tourists in 2010
In the figures released by the Kenyan government, India has become the primary source market for Kenya in the Asian region by clocking 35,137 Indian arrivals to Kenya for the period of January to September 2010. India ranks at number 6 amongst the largest tourism generating source market for destination Kenya and the main tourism inflow to Kenya are from the western Indian region including cities in Gujarat and from Mumbai followed by Delhi and rest of

Kenya looks to India for tourism boost

City based Phadnis Infrastructure has bagged infrastructure development contracts worth over 427 crore which also includes building ESIC Nursing College and Auditorium at Bangalore.

Phadnis Infra baggs projects worth Rs 427 cr

Bangalore.&nbsp;The company said it is aggressively investing in products and platforms, and opening an engineering center in Bangalore will enable the company to access the tremendous talent pool in the market. The company will continue to grow its egineering center in Mumbai and plans to hire more than 50 engineers in the next six months across both centers.

Komli Media launches engg center in Blore

Honeywell, Rolls Royce, Dassault Aviation and Thyssen Krupp are among the 50 or so domestic and overseas companies that have shown interest in setting up manufacturing units in the aerospace SEZ near the Bangalore international airport. The top officials from these companies held talks with the state government during the Aero India 2011 and visited the upcoming Aerospace SEZ near the Bangalore international airport, a senior government official said.

Global Aerospace majors evince interest in SEZ

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