Brand Ambassador for Biodiversity Conference Receives Over One Million Visitors

Showcased as brand ambassador by the Minister of Environment & Forests, Smt Jayanthi Natarajan during her inaugural speech in high level segment of Conference of Parties (CoP), the “Science Express: Biodiversity Special” – a mobile biodiversity exhibition train is on a mission to create massive awareness on India’s biodiversity. This is an unique, state-of-the-art exhibition …

TRAI Decides to Specify Access Facilitation Charges, Co-Location Charges and Other Related Charges for Submarine Cable Landing Stations

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released the amendment to ‘International Telecommunication Access to Essential Facilities at Cable Landing Stations  Regulations, 2007’ and Consultation Paper on ‘Estimation of Access Facilitation Charges and Co-location Charges at Cable Landing Stations’ in New Delhi today. Submarine Cables, a vital international telecommunication link between countries across the world, terminate in a …

Coal Production Records 9 Percent Increase

Coal production in the country has registered record increase during the last two quarters. Coal off-take has also recorded significant growth during this period while coal supply to Power Sector during  April to Oct 2012 has increased by 12 percent. With these efforts the Coal India would be able to achieve highest ever production target during this year. This was stated …

worldsteel announces the 7th steeluniversity.org Challenge launch dates.

 Brussels, 19 October 2012 – The 7th steeluniversity.org Challenge will begin with the Round 1 Regional Championship in November 2012 and will finish with the Round 2 World Championship in February 2013. There are two categories: ‘Student’ and ‘Industry’. Entrants in both categories will compete online from their own countries in the first round and …

Citrix Continues to Drive Innovation in Desktop Virtualization

Market-leading Technology, Acquisitions and Key Partnerships Drive Down the Costs of Virtual Desktops India, October 19, 2012 – Today at Citrix Synergy™, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, Citrix announced new innovations in its desktop virtualization solution with tech previews of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box™ and Citrix XenClient® and a new release of the …

Xstrata plc announces Bond Issue

Zug, 19 October 2012 Xstrata plc (“Xstrata”) announces the launch and pricing of a US$ denominated issue of notes (“the Notes”) in a US$4.5 bn four-tranche transaction comprising 3 year, 5 year, 10 year and 30 year Notes issued through its subsidiary Xstrata Finance (Canada) Limited. The transaction covers $1.25 billion 1.8% guaranteed Notes due …

McAfee Launches New Data Center Security Suites

McAfee has announced four new Data Center Security Suites to help secure servers and databases in the data center. The suites offer a unique combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualization technologies for protecting servers and virtual desktops. These solutions provide optimal security for servers and databases in physical, virtualized and cloud based data centers, with …

EDITORIAL: A tale of two cities by Sunita Narain

I travelled to two different cities in two different states last week—Indore and Guwahati. I came back with images identified by common distinctions: piles of garbage and glitzy new shopping malls. Is this our vision of urban development? There is no question that cities are imploding; growth is happening faster than we ever imagined. Construction …