Bharat Rakshak

Larsen & Toubro flexes its engineering might L&T to add 4000 MW per annum capacity for Super-critical Boilers, Steam Turbine Generators Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) has announced that the Company is all set to ramp up its manufacturing capacity of super-critical boilers and super-criti...

Country’s only golfing robot perfect to the tee [quote] PUNE, January 31: He would be the envy of any golf pro. Standing six feet tall, he hits the ball right into the hole at a success rate of 97 per cent. What’s more, he repeats the feat almost as many time as he’s asked to. And the only re...

TVS Motor wins TPM Excellence Award by Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) has awarded the coveted Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Excellence Award to TVS Motor Company in the first category. The company won the award for its exemplary implementat...

Shipbuilding: Setting sail to favourable winds http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/iw/2008/03/16/images/2008031650881501.jpg The shipbuilding industry in India has just set sail and appears headed for a promising future with an order book of almost Rs 24,000 crore or $5 billion.The surging order bo...

Maharashtra in pact with Cummins for unit in Satara Mumbai, March 15 The Maharashtra Government has attracted Rs 1,776 crore in the latest round of investments. On Saturday, seven memorandum of understanding were signed by the Industries Department for setting up diverse manufacturing facilities in...

Leyland ups investment in Uttaranchal by Rs 1,000 cr Despite a slowdown in the auto sector, Ashok Leyland, the flagship company of the Hinduja Group, has decided to double investment in Uttaranchal from Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 2,000 crore as a part of its expansion plan. In a new plan submitted to the...

Saravana Global charts Rs 200cr expansion Saravana Global Energy Ltd (SGEL), manufacturers of high-voltage insulators, is embarking on a major expansion programme under which the company is setting up a new manufacturing unit for high-voltage hollow insulators in Chengalpet district of Tamil Nadu o...

German firm to manufacture machine tools in India Gildemeister AG, the euro 1.6-billion ($2.3 billion) German maker of turning and milling equipment, is planning a production facility in India to meet the growing demand for machine tools by a vibrant domestic manufacturing industry. 'We have earmar...

L&T bags Rs 1,443-cr Dutch order L&T in talks for $100 million Dutch shipbuilding contract [quote] “Yes, L&T is negotiating with a dutch shipowner for a new building order. But, I cannot tell you the name of the shipowner, the number of ship order being negotiated or the value of the ...

Darth Sidius: It is all going as I had Predicted.... all that remains is to connect the Pearl River Delta (chennai) to Zhongguancun (BLR) via a expway and industrial/tech townships. the road via vellor and krishnagiri is already 4 laned and in excellent shape ofcourse. synergies have to attained, h...

It’s apartheid, says poet who fled Malaysia [quote] HONG KONG: As a celebrated bilingual poet, Sharanya Manivannan, 22 , knows the searing power of words. Yet, as an ethnic Indian-Sri Lankan who lived in Malaysia for 17 years — and fled to India last month to escape systematic racial harassment...

From a traveler's excellent photo collection..... Jallikattu - Taming the Bull The crowd is shouting encouraging that brave man who is trying to tame the bull by catching him on his shoulder and to hold on as long as possible. The bull is totally desorientated and tries to find the exit as he has to...

Have there been mass farmer suicides b4 the liberalisation era or is it a child of liberalization? All the news reports seem to point to Bt cotton for vidharba and unavailability of traditional hardy seeds. The dealers no longer sell them. where has it gone? why is the govt promoting a seed that cl...

Frail mom and dad outsourced to India By Laurie Goering Chicago Tribune Pondicherry, India —- After three years of caring for his increasingly ailing mother and father in their Florida retirement home, Steve Herzfeld was exhausted and faced with spending his family's last resources to put the cou...