With the strike by workers at the Chennai container terminal (CCT) entering the 13th day, container handling operations at the Chennai port have been affected. 


Strike hits operations at Chennai port

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As part of its ambitious plan to become the largest eye care service provider in the world, Vasan Eye Care (VEC) will add 10 more hospitals across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, according to A M Arun,

Vasan Eye Care to set up 10 hospitals in TN, K`taka

JCBL Lilited, a leader in the integrated bus-body builder, has entered into a technical collaboration with PLA, Italy, to launch its motorhome â€” a state-of-the-art vehicle to be equipped with a lounge, a kitchen, refrigerator, a toilet and a luxurious bedroom.Built on the Fiat Ducato Chassis, these motorhomes could be seamlessly converted into an office, guest house, a place for entertainment, or a home away from home as per your needs and requirements.The vehicle is available in two models, HS 75 and M 740 in the price range of Rs 75 - 80 lakh.Rajinder Aggarwal, CMD, JCBL Group, said, â€œOur motorhomes are designed around peopleâ€™s need and crafted to perfection with style and imagination. Itâ€™s a perfect symbiotic existence of art and technology. Trust, reliability and strength are hallmark of our motorhomes.â€Aggarwal aims to sell 100 unit in the maiden year of the launch.According to Aggarwal if the technical collabor

JCBL motorhomes now in India

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday rejected the resignation of Cabinet Minister Mohammad Azam Khan as the chief of Kumbh Mela Organising Committee.

UP CM rejects Azam Khan's resignation as Kumbh in-charge

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BSP legislators darted paper balls towards the Governor protesting breakdown of the law and order

UP: A stormy start to Budget session

A captive 5 MW solar power plant will soon be set up by Finolex Cables Ltd at its manufacturing facility at Urse near Pune with an estimated investment of Rs  40 crore.

Finolex Cables to set up solar power plant

Eminent Gujarati litterateur and Sahitya Akademi-laureate Sitanshu Yashchandra has been selected by a Maharashtra university for the prestigious 'Kusumagraja Rashtriya Sahitya Puraskar' for his outstanding contribution to the field of literature. The award, instituted by city-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), comprises a memento and a citation, besides Rs one lakh in cash, YCMOU Registrar Dr Prakash Atkare told reporters today. Yashcnadra (72), a poet, playwright, translator and academic, is among contemporary Gujarati literature's most eminent representatives."The award will be bestowed upon him at a function to be held at Nashik on March 10", Atkare said. Yashchandraâ€™s dramas 'Aa Manas Madrasi Lage Chhe', 'Ashvathama Aaj Pan Jive The' have won critical acclaim. He had served as the head of department in Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao University and later became Vice-Chancellor of Saurashtra University. The Kusumagraja award is named after Marath

Kusumagraja Sahitya Puraskar for Gujarati poet Sitanshu Yashchandra

Gujarat-based cement manufacturer Sanghi Industries Ltd's net profit for the second quarter of the fiscal ending December 31, 2012 grew seven-fold to Rs  21.6 crore from Rs  3 crore in the corresponding quarter last fiscal, a jump of 615 per cent mainly on the back of lower interest payment.

Sanghi Industries Q2 net jumps to Rs 21.6 cr

Ahmedabad-based drug major Cadila Healthcare Limited, also known as Zydus Cadila, has received US Food and Drug Administration's (USFDA) final approval to market Pioglitazone HCI tablets in US.

Zydus gets USFDA final nod to market anti-diabetic drug

Australian government will look into allegations made against Indian company Adani group, seeking to operate a Central Queensland Mine, that it has a poor environment record in India.Greenpeace Australia argued that Adani has tried to destroy tiger habitats and flood villages as part of power generation expansion plans in India. Its research co-ordinator Georgina Woods said Adani was required to outline its environment record under Queensland government guidelines. "In India, Adani has a dubious record of compliance with environmental regulations," Greenpeace said in statement.Adani has sought to operate the $6.1 billion Carmichael coal and rail project at Clermont from 2015.According to an AAP report, Australian Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke said the claims against Adani made by Greenpeace Australia were "serious" allegations. Burke has asked his department to probe the claims, it said. "These are serious allegations that need to be checke

Aus govt to look into Greenpeace complaints against Adani

The Gujarat High Court on Thursday stayed commercial operations and development activities of 12 companies located in the Adani Group owned Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) in Mundra taluka of Kutch district, till environmental clearance is granted to them by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

Gujarat HC stays commercial operations of 12 units in APSEZ

The West Bengal government is planning to extend a host of fiscal incentives to lure IT and ITES companies in the state. 


Bengal to tone up package for IT sector

Sri Sri Ravishankar of Art of Living fame exhorted the youth to prepare themselves for global competition armed with knowledge and spiritualism.


Art of Living lesson for RCM students

A three judge bench of the Supreme Court has set aside the out of turn allotment of chrome ore mining lease proposed by the Orissa government in favour of Nava Bharat Ferro Alloys Ltd.


SC sets aside Orissa chrome ore lease

Stepping up the agitation against farmland acquisition for the Tatas' car project at Singur, protestors belonging to Trinamool Congress-led farmers committee on December 13 gave a call for boycott of

Farmer group destroys Tata products

After launching the cheapest tractor in India, Delhi based SAS Motors is planning to launch rural transport vehicle and electrical three wheeler in the country aimed at rural market. 


SAS plans rural market vehicle launch

Tanla Solutions Limited, integrated telecom solutions and products provider, is issuing a public issue of 15,885,000 equity shares of Rs 2 each in the price band of Rs 230 to Rs 265.


Tanla Solutions raising funds for expansion

Chennai-based film distribution and exhibition company, Pyramid Saimira, is looking to make inroads into the non-Hindi speaking belt.


Pyramid eyes Hindi market

Durgapur Steel Plant, a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd, has recorded a net profit of Rs 202 crores in the first half of the current fiscal, as compared to Rs 261 crore for the whole of last year

Durgapur Steel H1 net Rs 202cr

ICFAI business school launched Human Resource Management and Marketing Management courses in Kolkata today.


HR courses from ICFAI

Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) is close to achieving Rs 1,00,000 crore business by the end of this calendar year. 


Oriental Bank eyes Rs 1,00,000cr biz

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