If an entrepreneur has any problem, query, questions or anything s/he would like to know, the clinic will help address it
The growing fear among software professionals is of getting infected while travelling to work in buses or cabs. And so, many IT-BPO firms have allowed their people to work from home if it fits their job profile. Some are planning to hire laptops to encourage employees to stay at home and work.
Shopping malls, multiplexes and top retailers in Pune are seeing as much as a 70 per cent drop in business owing to the swine flu outbreak in the city.
Rain in the June-September season will be 87 per cent of the long-period average, compared with 93 per cent forecast in June, Ajit Tyagi, director general at India Meteorological Department said. Rainfall could be 4 per cent more or less than the estimate, he said.
Veteran weather forecaster Dr A B Mazumdar says, "The forecast is made with the help of certain systems and models. But it remains a forecast and hence can go wrong sometimes."
Around 160 women, a mix of housewives from middle-class families and slum-dwellers, inaugurated a polythene bag unit called Swamini Mahila Bachat Gat Akhil Sangh Ltd.
Big Animation has selected the most popular characters and stories from the famous magazine Chandamama, which would be launched as a TV serial spanning over a minimum of 25 episodes to begin with. Speaking to Business Standard, Big Animation CEO Ashish SK said, "The project will be handled over a period of three years.
Several companies have hit on the idea of offering college freshers pre-job training to make them more employable.
Workers at Garware Nylons Ltd, who lost their jobs when the company went bankrupt in 1996, today own the plant at Ahmednagar. The Bombay High Court had recently passed an order directing an auction of GNL's Ahmednagar premises to resolve the settlement issues. Sensing an opportunity, a voluntary group from Pune, the Common People's Front, united 210 workers and decided to bid for the premises at the auction.
Cost pressures are forcing IT majors like Infosys Technologies, Tech Mahindra and Tata Consultancy Services to opt for public transport buses that come at cheaper rates and have a better reach in the city. This leads to cost cutting as compared to cabs and private bus services.
These Blackberrys will be connected to a server back in the office of the department. Through this communication mechanism, a traffic police will have access to an entire database of vehicles registered in the city. The move is aimed at introducing traffic discipline and better equipping traffic officers on the field.
Following stringent cost-cutting measures by business process outsourcing units and IT firms across the country, the business of call centre cab owners has dwindled by anywhere between 5 and 40 per cent.
Blogging is one of the most popular methods of communication for the tech-savvy. The form that most of us are familiar with is text blogging. However, technological advances have given rise to another off-shoot of text blogging, voice blogging.
Though it's over 24 hours since the founder-chairman of Satyam Computer Services, B Ramlinga Raju, resigned after making shocking revelations, its employees (known as associates) are yet to come to terms with the reality.
On Wednesday, the employees of Satyam lost close to Rs 221 crore (Rs 2.21 billion) after investors dumped the stock. At the end of the September quarter, Satyam employees were holding 5.9 million employee stock options. The unfortunate drubbing of the Satyam stock has raised serious questions about the attractiveness of the stocks held by the employees, which may be affected by any 'uncalled for' action by the company.
Currently, STAT 24X7 offers X-Ray, ECG, USG, Pathology and Stress test services, among others.
Located at Manngaon , a small village near Hinjewadi in Pune, AFC is a group of 138 farmers. Set up in 2004, it has emerged as a platform to share information. Farmer-members share their knowledge on all the aspects of farming -- what to farm, what to grow, seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and marketing of produce.
More than 150,000 people working at the 5,500-odd auto ancillary units in and around Pune feel lost every time Tata Motors announces a block-closure of its commercial vehicle plant in Pune.
Auto component companies -- especially the mid-size and small ones -- are facing an uphill task to stay afloat as banks have become tight-fisted in giving credit and vehicle makers are cutting orders to combat the slowdown in sales.
Based in Aurangabad, the Rs 450-crore (Rs 4.5 billion) Bagla Group is involved in aluminium casting business and delivers shafts and spindles to firms such as Bajaj Auto, Lamborghini and Piaggio.
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