Mumbai: Taking another step towards being a green campus, IIT Bombay inaugurated its first Vermi-culture Facility on August 30, 2010 inside its Powai campus. The initiative is spearheaded by Green Campus Initiative, Public Health Office and monitored closely by Mrs. Aparna Inamdar, who has worked extensively in the field of sagacious garbage disposal. The aim of the GCI is to t...

Mumbai: Aegis, a global outsourcing services company and part of the Essar Group, today said it has been ranked fifth amongst top business process outsourcing (BPO) players in the country in Nasscom's recent annual BPO ranking, a jump of three places over previous year's ranking. With close to 40,000 employees on its roll, Aegis has also been ranked 10th in top employer...

Mumbai: Aegis, a global outsourcing services company and part of the Essar Group, today said it has been ranked fourth amongst top business process outsourcing (BPO) players in the country in a recent survey by Dataquest, a leading knowledge publication from the house of CyberMedia. In an otherwise tumultuous year that saw several businesses come under pressure owing to the eco...

Mumbai: Prof Manoj K. Mishra of the Department of Chemistry has been invited to deliver the Lowdin Lecture 2010 of Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida. The lectures, organized every year or two by QTP in honor of Professor Per-Olov Lowdin, are used as an occasion to invite a scholar of international repute in theoretical chemistry/biochemistry to visit for a period an...

Mumbai: Lavasa Corporation Ltd, Cisco and Wipro  today signed definitive agreements for Cisco to participate in MyCity Technology Limited, a company set up by Lavasa and Wipro last year to provide ICT services in the new development of Lavasa City, India's first complete e-city. The strategic collaboration between the three companies, to build a next generation intelli...

Mumbai: Patni Computer Systems Ltd., a leading global IT and BPO services provider, today announced that it has received the 'Platinum partner' status as part of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) program. This prestigious partner status recognizes Patni for its in-depth expertise and excellence in showcasing capabilities across the entire suite of Oracle solutions in area...

Mumbai: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), established in 2001 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is a highly advanced educational and research institution and part of the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. DA-IICT offers programs in B.Tech.(ICT), M.Tech.(ICT), M.Sc.(IT), M.Sc.(ICT in Agriculture and Rural Development), M.Des.(Communicati...

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm today announced that it has signed a multi-year outsourcing contract with Telenor Norway. The contract comprises application maintenance and development services and will involve a modernisation of Telenor's Norway's application portfolio ac...

Mumbai:  Revolutionary Ideas and lateral thinking is the need of the hour for efficient water management: Ms Malini Shankar, Principal Secretary- Water Supply & Sanitation, Government of Maharashtra

An efficient water management system is panacea to conserve the most precious natural resource i.e WATER, stated Ms Malini Shankar, Principal Secretary- Water Suppl...