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MAHARASHTRA: BSNL plans disaster recovery centre in Pune
To raise mobile subscriber base; plans more smaller exchanges. Pune, Dec. 30 Setting up a disaster recovery centre, a new operational support and billing support centre and installation of ERP system are plans BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) ...

KARNATAKA: Slowdown effect hampering retailers’ New Year sales
‘Salaried middle-class have reduced spending by 25-30%’. Bangalore, Dec. 30 It’s a dull run-up to the New Year for local small-time retailers. The frenzied shopping scenes that one witnesses in the week leading up to the New ...

TAMIL NADU: Coimbatore industries set their face against power holiday
May appeal to TNERC, seek legal remedy. Coimbatore, Dec. 30 Industries in Coimbatore have planned to flood the Government and the State electricity board (TNEB) with telegrams asking them not to go ahead with the plan to enforce two-days-a-week ...

TAMIL NADU: C. Mohan Ram, Managing Director, Lattice Bridge Infotech; Madha Engineering College, Kundrathur
Chennai, Dec. 30 Automated speech recognition (ASR) and speech biometrics can bring efficiency, transparency and process improvements to customer interactions (internal and external) which is the need of the hour, said Mr C. Mohan Ram, ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: NTPC hosts workshop on RTI Act
A one-day workshop on The Right to Information Act was organised by NTPC Ltd at Southern Region headquarters in Secunderabad today. During the meeting, the Chief Information Commissioner, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Arha, said ...

TAMIL NADU: Corp Bank library in Karaikudi
The Union Home Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, inaugurated the ‘Alagappa University-Corporation Bank Public Library’ at Karaikudi on December 28. A bank release said here on Tuesday that the Minister complimented Corporation Bank for ...

KERALA: Kinfra park to have food processing incubation centre
Kochi, Dec. 30 The State Industries Minister, Mr Elamaram Kareem, will inaugurate the Food Processing Incubation Centre and Water Supply Scheme at Kinfra Food Processing Park, Kakkancherry on January 1, ...

KARNATAKA: NMDC keen to set up steel plant in Karnataka
Hyderabad, Dec. 30 The National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (NMDC) has evinced interest in setting up a steel plant in Bellary district ...

TAMIL NADU: Online privacy concerns on the rise
Coimbatore, Dec. 30 “The networked world is continuously challenged by security loop holes, threats and attacks. So watch out. If you are not careful, you sure will be a victim,” Mr Ankit Fadia, Independent Computer Security ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: SBI Life to help restore vision
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TAMIL NADU: TN wind power producers seek Govt support
Chennai, Dec. 30 The Indian Wind Power Association has sought the intervention of the Tamil Nadu Government to direct the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to return the wind energy banked with it by the wind ...

ANDHRA PRADESH: Benefits for NIRD employees
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TAMIL NADU: Box trailer operators call off strike
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KARNATAKA: Dakshina Kannada banks achieve Rs 18,770-cr biz
Mangalore, Dec. 30 Banks in Dakshina Kannada district have achieved business level of Rs 18,770 crore as on September ...

KERALA: A mixed bag for plantation sector in Kerala
Kochi, Dec. 30 The year 2008 bid adieu with a satisfying note so far as the plantation sector is concerned as the prices of all the commodities remained at or above remunerative levels during the most part of the ...

TAMIL NADU: SSIs’ plea on power cut
The Madurai District Tiny and Small Scale Industries Association has appealed for a one-day power cut a week. While welcoming the proposal announced by the Electricity Minister, Mr Arcot.N.Veeraswami, to reduce the quantum of power cut from 40 ...

WEST BENGAL: Riverbank deal with IHG
In a 15-year deal with the Inter Continental Hotels Group (IHG), Riverbank Developers Pvt Ltd proposes to set up a hotel at Batanagar on the banks of the Hooghly river under the brand name, Crown Plaza Hotels & Resorts,with an estimated cost ...






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