After nearly a year of
vacillating over the protection status of Kappatagudda hills in Gadag, the
State government has dropped the Forest Department’s proposal to declare the
bio-diversity rich area as a wildlife sanctuary.
The inflow of huge investments by multi-national companies likes
Procter and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson and Cogent in the backward Mahabubnagar
district has prompted the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to
reiterate his resolve to make the newly formed State “a paradise for investors
and industries”.
Tibetan spiritual leader, the
Dalai Lama, on Thursday hailed Chinese President Xi Jinping as “more
open-minded” and “realistic” than his predecessor, Hu Jintao.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made a special announcement on opening
a new route for pilgrims to Kailash-Mansarovar in the Tibetan Autonomous
Region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Mr. Xi on behalf of the people of
India and said the gesture will enable a higher number of pilgrims to visit the
shrine and will be especially beneficial to older pilgrims.
India on Thursday made a strong pitch with the visiting Chinese
delegation to get actor Jackie Chan to attend the International Film Festival
of India (IFFI) due to start in Goa on November 20. Bringing the martial
artist-actor-director to IFFI 2014 was a major talking point of Union Minister
of State for Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar during his
meeting with the Chinese Minister for State Administration of Press, Publication,
Radio, Film and Television Cai Fuchao.
Coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama was on the verge
of sweeping a historic vote on Thursday to become Fiji’s first elected leader
in eight years, as international observers gave the ballot a stamp of approval.
Krittika Biswas (21), the daughter of an Indian
diplomat formerly in the country’s New York consulate, won a significant legal
victory from the City, which has agreed to a $225,000 settlement along with an
acknowledgment that she was an Honours Student on February 8, 2011, when she
was wrongfully arrested and held in jail for a day.
Infosys announced on Thursday a global partnership with Huawei
to offer enterprise customers big data and communication solutions besides
expansion of its existing engagement with Microsoft and Hitachi Data Systems. Providing
details, in separate press releases, Infosys said the IT solutions to be
developed with Chinese multi-national ICT firm Huawei would be for enterprise
customers looking to modernise operations with cloud infrastructure.
For world’s second largest computer chip maker AMD, India is the
number one market as far as strategic importance is concerned as the company
sees more opportunities for growth here than even in a market like China. “From purely revenue perspective, Indian market is among the top 10 for
AMD, but from strategic importance, it is right up there… India has a huge
potential, bigger than even China in terms of where the market is going to go
and investments. So from strategic importance, I will say India is number one,”
David Bennett, Corporate Vice-President and General Manager (APAC and Japan),
AMD, said.
HCL Technologies late on Thursday announced that it would invest
$9 million to expand its centre in North Carolina (U.S.), creating up to 1,237
new jobs by the end of 2018. HCL Technologies, which has over 8,000 people
working across 15 States in the U.S., employs close to 1,000 people at the Cary
Centre in North Carolina. Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce
Secretary Sharon Decker made the announcement at the centre.
Cipla, on Thursday, signed an agreement with
U.S.-based speciality pharmaceutical company Salix Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
granting it exclusive rights under some patent applications in the ‘Rifaximin
Complexes’ patent family, which is controlled by Cipla.
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