India is set to launch a new communications satellite on Sunday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Friday. The countdown for the launch of a rocket carrying INSAT-4CR from Sriharikota, about 100 km from the southern city of Chennai, was slated to begin Friday, the PTI said quoting official sources. The 49-meter rocket will [...]

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been placed sixth, a notch behind Indra Nooyi, the Indian American chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo, in the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. Ranking Angela Merkel, the first woman to become chancellor of Germany, No. 1 for the second year in a row, the US [...]

Apollo Health Street (AHS), a global healthcare outsourcing arm of the Apollo group, today announced the acquisition of Atlanta-based BPO and enterprise support solutions company, Zavata Inc, for Rs 697 crores. The fourth acquisition for Apollo Health Street and the second in the US provider space, it strengthens AHS’s position as a leading provider of [...]

A mall and multiplex wave is set to sweep across Chennai, with over 20 malls planned in the next three years. The city, where India’s first mall, Spencer Plaza, was set up in 1975, is expected to absorb over Rs 3,000 crore in the coming years. Realty majors such as Prestige Group, Shriram Properties and [...]

India’s first low-cost carrier Air Deccan will become costlier in the next few weeks, as its new promoter UB Group looks to pull the airline out of losses amid rising operating costs. UB Group will also increase fares on its other scheduled carrier Kingfisher Airlines, its Chairman Vijay Mallya told reporters here. He added that [...]

SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, a leading infrastructure equipment finance company, is to hold ‘Paison Ki Nilami-2007′, its unique auction of interest rates for financing infrastructure equipment purchase, here. This would be the eighth auction of its kind since the pilot event was successfully held in Kolkata in November 2004. Addressing a press conference here, company [...]

Saregama India Ltd. has added one more feather to its new media – digital kiosks. These kiosks can be sited in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai with close to 30,000 tracks. Around 25 kiosks are currently placed at the Nokia stores in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. Saregama is the sole content provider of all major music [...]

In Bangalore, the unorganised sector steps in to ease the pressure on hotels. Not so long ago, trying to get a five-star hotel room in Bangalore was a harrowing task during any season of the year. The rates were astronomical, easily surpassing the $400 figure and on some days even touching $600, and hotels were [...]

Cutting edge MBA programmes in Innovative Management, Innovative Technology and Hospitality at the British Institute of Technology and E-commerce (BITE) in London are to be offered to graduates of the University of Madras Institute of Distance Education at special rates. BITE, which opened its regional office in India on IDE campus on Wednesday, is to [...]

To know about this one should know the function of eyelids, tear secretion and passage. The tears are secreted from the lacrimal gland situated outer upper portion of the eye and spreads over the cornea equally by the movements of the upper lid and are brought to the inner side of the eye passes through [...]

Vice-chancellor of Anna University, Coimbatore, R. Radhakrishnan has said that effective communication skills were vital for engineering students to compete in the globally competitive environment. A necessity Speaking at the first year students’ orientation and registration programme at the Angel College of Engineering and Technology here recently, he said that good communications skills have become [...]

The Tamil Nadu Government told the Madras High Court that the number of engineering seats meant for Plus Two vocational category students had been increased from 700 to 2,400. A submission to this effect was made by Additional Government Pleader (Education) V. Viswanathan, when a writ petition filed by a student seeking enhancement in the [...]