The report, Perspectives on Global Development 2010 -- Shifting Wealth, is the centerpiece of a Global Policy Dialogue co-hosted by the OECD Development Center and Global Development Network -- a platform for economic research institutes from developing countries.
Suzlon is the world's largest wind energy turbine maker and is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
it offers significant advantages over conventional solar lanterns.
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Currently, the Shannon Development Centre employs over 200 professionals, delivering IT and business process services' offerings to marquee retail banking and insurance customers across Ireland and the UK.
The Bangalore team will focus on product development and applied research in web search and online ad technologies.
Wipros Australian Development Centre will provide consulting, software development, testing and business process services to domestic and global companies in Australia.
HCL Technologies on Friday said it has opened a global IT development centre in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, to cater to clients across Latin America, North America and Europe.
Big chains such as Star Bazaar, Future Group and D Mart have set up separate shelves to sell products of Patanjali.
Hyundai Motor India, the country's second largest car maker, on Friday said its plan for launching a small car in the Indian auto-market is "well on course".
Subros Limited, India's leading manufacturer for automobile air conditioners, has entered into a joint venture with its two-and-a-half-decade-old partner, DENSO Corporation of Japan, to set up a product development centre in India.
200 engineers may join its Bengaluru R&D centre.
There is more good news for those looking for jobs at IT companies. Infosys plans to hire 30,000 professionals this year.
The study suggested tax rebates for high-end technology companies that set up research and development centres in India.
European military consortium EADS Defence and Security on Tuesday said it will open a research and development centre in Bangalore within two years that will provide employment to 200 Indian engineers.
The company plans to set up a new IT park near Kolkata and recently the company's Chairman, Azim Premji, had signed an agreement with the state government to acquire additional land.
MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories, the joint venture to develop affordable vaccines for low-income countries, will take off by next year.
"These are engineers with tremendous capabilities in automobile research and engineering. They have specialisation in car design, styling and modeling, engine development and manufacturing, crash testing and hybrid technology," said I V Rao, managing executive officer (engineering) of Maruti Suzuki.
Siemens Information Systems, a business unit of Siemens India, part of German technology giant Siemens is understood to have laid off around 500 people over the last five days.
As a part of its expansion plan, Infosys, the biggest software exporter from Orissa, had given a commitment to resume construction work on its second campus at the Infocity-II region by April.
What is not so well-known, possibly because of the scale and size of its information technology business, is that Wipro is the third-largest Indian-owned fast-moving consumer goods company after Nirma and Dabur -- Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, the FMCG and lighting products arm of the company, will likely end 2009-10 with sales revenue of Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion).
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After setting up a committee under N Rangachary last year to look at taxation issues regarding the sector, the government has issued several notifications in the last eight months.
Narayana Murthy requested the government to make commuting easier and provide healthcare facilities.
The company is developing a new model in its research and development centre in the United Kingdom, which will primarily address the defence needs of most countries around the globe, including India, said a senior executive from Land Rover.
Infosys has asked the West Bengal govt to give them land or repay the token amount the former had paid earlier.
Recession here is not as drastic as what you might see in the developed world because the hole that is dug is not that deep in countries like India; thus, they can recover much quicker, says S Somasegar.
Analysts were fearing that after the debacle, the clients of beleaguered Satyam Computer Services may be forced to review their contracts and may look at other offshore suppliers.
Based on information from 10 pharmaceutical companies based in North America and Europe, a recent Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj report said these were keen to set up their manufacturing units in India or expand their existing units. Taken together, these would need about 15,000 acres over the next seven years to set up research and development centres, new units and to expand the existing units.
The placement season has brought in positive cheer for students at the IIT Kharagpur this year.
The proposed information technology (IT) projects of Wipro Technologies, Mumbai-based Raheja Corporation and the Kolkata-based Apeejay Surrendra Group in Orissa, which had suffered delay on account of the prevailing economic downturn, are expected to make headway within two to three months.
The centres will be set up under a pilot project on PPP (public-private partnership) mode across the country, principal advisor (skill development mission) of Planning Commission Jayati Chandra said, adding that these are expected to come up by the middle of the year.
The Maharashtra government fears that the agitation against Dow Chemical's proposed Research and Development centre was orchestrated by its aggressive neighbour to influence Dow to take its $400-million project to that particular state.
MSD Pharmaceuticals, the wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based multinational drug company Merck, has chartered an ambitious growth plan to emerge as one of the top five pharmaceutical companies in India. The Merck subsidiary has plans to step up its research and clinical trial programmes in India, mainly in association with hospitals and universities.
With a US slump likely, semiconductor firms - particularly the global companies operating captive design centres in India - are expected to hire fewer engineers in the next financial year. More than 50 global companies, mostly from the US, operate captive design centres or offshore development centres, partnering Indian firms. More than 50 per cent of the Indian semiconductor firms are dependent on the US market for revenue. Hence, on-campus hiring will see general slowdown.
Can Nestle go beyond Maggi? While recovery in the March quarter has been led by the popular noodle brand, the company hopes for a different revenue mix in five years.
Tata Consultancy Services is eyeing tier-II and tier-III cities such as Pune, Nagpur, Gandhinagar, Kochi and Chandigarh to drive its future growth in the domestic market.
The figure constitutes less than one per cent of the company's 1,30,000-workforce. According to the report, a TCS spokesperson reasoned that these employees had failed to meet performance standards.
Ananya Consultancy Career Development Centre is organising a 10-day interactive workshop on Personality Development.
US-based telecom infrastructure company, Unicorn Communications, is planning to enter the Indian market. It intends to commence operations in about three months and will offer telecom infrastructure such as mobile towers.
Labour and Employment Minister Oscar Fernandes said about 400 government ITIs are also being upgraded under World Bank assistance and about 100 through domestic funding. Besides, about 1,396 government ITIs are being upgraded through PPP mode.
An autonomous e-management programme at MET Asian Management Development Centre offering various specialisations.
