Servalakshmi Paper has received the SEBI nod for its proposed initial public offering (IPO). The company proposes to enter capital markets with a public issue of equity shares aggregating Rs 60 crore through 100 per cent book building process.

Servalakshmi Paper gets SEBI nod for IPO

Business Standard

Information and communication technology would change the future course of the country, particularly in energy and measurement of carbon emissions, founder-chairman of Infosys Technologies N R Narayana Murthy said today. Speaking at Infocom 2010-11 here, Murthy said, &quot;Information and communication technology (ICT) would be used for digital marketisation that translate into use of energy and measurement of carbon emissions&quot;.

ICT will transform country's future: Narayana Murthy

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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in Chhattisgarh on Thursday, retained the Sanjari Balod assembly seat in the by-election.

BJP reassures victory in Sanjari Balod by-election

State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has asked the Centre for duty restructuring on refined products as well as crude oil in the upcoming Budget. The country&rsquo;s largest refiner is reeling under price pressure and its borrowings are anticipated to touch Rs 60,000 crore soon.

IOC asks for duty restructuring

State-run power companies in Chhattisgarh would invest Rs 17,000 crore in next three years to enhance the power capacity and improve the infrastructure in the sector.

Chhattisgarh power cos to invest Rs 17,000 crore in three years

Paul Antony&nbsp;has assumed charge as chairman of Cochin Port Trust&nbsp;today. He belongs to the 1983 batch IAS of the Kerala cadre. He was holding the post of principal secretary (power), Govern-ment of Kerala, prior to this appointment. During 2000-05, he was Development Commissioner of Cochin Special Economic Zone, and in that capacity, he was a Trustee of Cochin Port Trust board.

Paul Antony assumes charge as chairman of Cochin Port Trust

City-based animation, game art and entertainment company DQ Entertainment (International) Limited has signed a licensing agreement with TV Mania Gmbh through DQE's merchandising agents in France, TF1 Enterprises.

DQE signs licensing pact with TV Mania

L&amp;T Infrastructure Finance Company would syndicate funds to the tune of a few thousand crore rupees for the first phase of the Rs 12,132-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail project being executed by its parent company, L&amp;T, according to a senior company official. The company has an internal policy not to lend to its own group companies.

L&T Infra Finance to syndicate funds for Hyd metro

Traders are up in arms against the state government for granting licence.

Metro gets licence to trade in notified commodities

The roll-out of two mega infrastructure projects, the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) and the Smart City, may have kicked off another round of upswing in the realty sector of central Kerala. The last boom was seen around five years ago and had vanished three years later leaving the realty sector of the state in a&nbsp;state of gloom.

New projects spur real estate market around Kochi

Sri Bio Integrated Discovery Centre, a stem cell banking and a research facility by Pacific Hospitals and Trans-Scell Biologies, and a large cancer research centre and hospital in collaboration with French government by Renaissance and Biogenesis and Renaissance Cancer Hospital &amp; Research Centre would announce their plans next week, major industries minister J Geeta Reddy said here today.

BioAsia likely to see new investments worth Rs 3,000 cr

Continuity of Arjun Munda as chief minister of Jharkhand got the seal today in the by-election of Kharsawan Assembly constituency which elected him to the Assembly by 61,700 votes. Munda defeated his nearest rival former chief minister Babulal Marandi&rsquo;s Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) candidate Dashrath alias Krishna Gagrai by 17,386 votes.

Arjun Munda wins Kharsawan assembly by-poll

The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), along with research groups from France-based Institute of National Recherche de la Agronomique and the University of California, has succeeded in cloning seed for next generation.

Clonal reproduction can accelerate plant breeding: CCMB

H5 strains of Avian Influenza, popularly known as Bird Flu, have been confirmed in the North-Eastern state of Tripura. Tests on poultry samples collected from government duck farm, in RK Nagar in Agartala, have confirmed the presence of the virus. The tests were conducted by ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal, The government has decided to commence the culling of birds and destruction of eggs and feed material so as to control further spread of the disease. It has also been decided that the entire poultry will be culled within a radius of 3 km of the focus of infection. Surveillance will be carried out over a further radius up to 10 km, an official statement said.

Bird flu in Tripura

Housing Development and Infrastructure (HDIL) has launched the&nbsp;Cybercity project at Kalamassery,&nbsp;near here, having received the necessary clearances from the state government to the project, which had received SEZ status from the Government of India.

HDIL begins work on Cybercity project

The Hyderabad Goods Transport Association has spent Rs 6 crore on a facility to train drivers, cleaners, hamalis (as transport labourers are called locally) and even managers and clerks of transporters. Called the Transport Training and Development Institute (TTDI), it is housed in a swank, glass-fronted, two-storeyed facility spread over 9,000 sq ft at Autonagar here.

A finishing school for truck drivers

The United States Consulate General Hyderabad said on Friday that their new email address for non-immigrant visa inquiries is: infoushyderabad@vfshelpline.com. It would no longer respond to mails sent to HydNIV@state.gov, according to an official release. The ID for emergency visa appointments is HydCEA@state.gov.

Email id for US visa info

Mysore MP A S Viswanath today took on Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and Janata Dal (S) chief H D Deve Gowda on the issues of separate agricultural budget and the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor (NICE) respectively.

Congress leader dubs farm budget 'gimmick'

The bishops marched from Mahatma Gandhi statue to the state secretariat and presented a memorandum to home minister R Ashok on their charter of demands. They have sought a CBI probe into the church attacks carried out during the first 20 months of BJP&rsquo;s rule in Karnataka. The delegation was of the view that the commission&rsquo;s report was &ldquo;partisan, biased, prejudiced and incomplete&rdquo;.

'Withdraw cases against Christians'

The rise in commercial projects in Chandigarh, which promises to provide a new facade to the city, has also fuelled speculation of about possible over-supply in the commercial sector in the city in the coming years.

Chandigarh to see boom in commercial projects

With the Centre all set to introduce a constitutional amendment Bill on the Goods and Service Tax in the coming Budget session, the worries in Uttarakhand are growing over several issues related to the GST.

GST: Big worry for Uttarakhand government

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