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Chennai girls beat USS Nimitz in football

July 6th, 2007

The USS Nimitz may have done duty in many of America’s military campaigns, but the crew of the world’s largest nuclear powered aircraft carrier are no match for the girls of chennai when it comes to football. In a friendly match played in the city, the Nimitz team lost to a team of school girls […]


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Microsoft to release six security updates next week

July 5th, 2007

Microsoft Corp. will release six groups of security patches next week including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users. Microsoft Corp. will release six groups of security patches next week including three critical updates for Windows and Excel users. The critical updates will fix bugs in many different versions of Microsoft’s products including the […]


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Rajnikant is a bigger international brand than bollywood

July 4th, 2007

It’s unfair to compare a man against an institution. Rajnikant has made 200 films during his 27 years in the movie business. Bollywood makes the same number of movies every year. The industry is more than 100 years old. It has witnessed the making of such classics as Mother India, Kaagaz ke Phool, Pyaasa, Naya […]


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Sundaram Finance’s BPO arm buys majority stake in PMC

July 4th, 2007

Sundaram Business Services (SBS), the BPO arm of non-banking finance company Sundram Finance, has picked up a majority stake in Professional Management Consultants (PMC) in cash to expand its service offerings. The acquisition also doubles the employee headcount of SBS to 1,600. “The idea behind acquisition was that PMC was also working in financial services […]


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Sundaram BPO buys Chennai firm

July 4th, 2007

Sundaram Business Services, the BPO arm of Sundaram Finance, has picked up a majority stake in Professional Management Consultants Ltd. Chennai-based Professional Management is a BPO company that specialises in banking and financial services. It has 800 employees in its Chennai facility. T.T. Srinivasaraghavan, managing director of Sundaram Finance, said, “In Professional Management, we saw […]


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SPi opens Chennai facility

July 4th, 2007

Content outsourcing solutions provider SPi, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Philippines-based ePLDT, is looking at increasing its headcount in India to 2,000 over the next 6-8 months from the present 1,300. This expansion comes in the wake of increasing demands from its customers.    The company, which commenced operations in India in 2004, has opened a […]


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Govt approval to Rs 2,339 cr worth FDI proposals

July 4th, 2007

The government on Wednesday approved 10 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals involving total inflow of Rs 2,339 crore, including investment banker Morgan Stanley’s plan to invest Rs 1,894 crore in the country.   The FDI proposals approved by finance minister P Chidambaram relate to sectors such as stock broking, banking, chemicals, automobiles, information technology and […]


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Vandana is Srikanth’s wife

July 4th, 2007

The Madras High Court has restrained popular Tamil actor Srikanth from evicting his wife Vandhana from his residence. Justice V. Ramasubramanian passed the interim order on a suit filed by Vandhana to this effect. Two months back both the families of Srikanth and Vandhana approved of the marriage of the two and agreed to have […]




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Rajini’s boss, from South to North

June 30th, 2007

For the first time perhaps in the history of regional cinema Sivaji -The Boss starring superstar Rajinikanth has managed to go beyond the Tamil-speaking audience and make its presence felt pan-India and beyond. Though Sivaji is being screened without Hindi or English subtitles in north India, it has still managed 98 per cent occupancy in […]