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On the lines of Nokia, Flexitronics and Motorola now Samsung all set to establish their manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai. Samsung today announced its plan to invest Rs 500 crores for manufacturing electronic consumer durables, colour monitors, apart from mobile handsets and base station.According to official sources, Samsung has applied for 80 acres of land in the area,

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CMDA finally wakes up to the recent Chennai High court order. Several shopping complexes in Chennai have flouted the development control rules leading to a very little parking space and inadequate facilities to handle the crowd it attracts. In a landmark ruling, the court quashed the regularisation of all buildings granted after the cut-off date of February 28, 1999. It said the buildings or

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An ambitious plan to develop several integrated townships on the outskirts of Chennai with an investment of Rs 1 lakh crore over the next few years has the city abuzz these days. This huge volume of investment is likely to change the way the people of Chennai live, as these integrated townships will come up in almost every suburb and bring in a Western model of modern living. For instance, the

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Chennai police gets a make over. Hundred spanking new upgraded cars gifted by Hyundai complete with revolving lights, loudspeakers and soon – digicams. We like our cops to be fit, young and stylish. But that is not going to happen in a hurry. For now the cops will have to do with a stylish set of wheels. The Chennai police will now go after lawbreakers in Hyundai Accents. Hundred upgraded Accents

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Chennai may soon have a monorail system to ease overcrowding of the existing public transport modes.The state government has identified the Metropolitan Transport Corporation Limited (MTCL) as the nodal agency for the development of a Monorail Mass Rapid Transit System (MMRTS) for Chennai.With a population of around eight million, a majority of the people including a million from the outskirts of

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The Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminal (CMBT) at Koyambedu, the biggest bus terminus in Asia, has added another feather to its cap by qualifying for the ISO 9001:2000 certification for quality management and maintenance."It is the only bus terminus to achieve this distinction in the country," according to official sources.The certificate given by the Geneva-based International Organisation for

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Sathyam Cinemas expects to invest around Rs 30 crore in launching two multiplexes in Chennai by 2008. Sathyam’s forthcoming multiplexes would be located in shopping malls. This will take the number of multiplexes located in shopping malls in Chennai to five.Kiran Reddy, managing director, Sathyam Cinemas, told Business Standard: “We will lease space for the multiplexes in two malls, one coming in

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Indian Airlines is going in for a makeover with a new name 'Indian' and a logo inspired by Konark sun temple in Orissa, ahead of new aircraft joining its fleet.Photos of Indian for you...

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A Chennai-based advertising firm is behind the makeover of the state-owned Indian Airline."It was a major challenge for us to capture the essence of the brand and to deliver a distinct and bold look," says Ajit Shah, executive director, R K Swamy BBDO, the team leader of the project.The exercise of identity change - to Indian from Indian Airlines among other things - was awarded to the firm in

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A TEAM from Volkswagen, the German car manufacturer, on Tuesday held discussions with the Tamil Nadu Government officials, as part of its on-going process of finding a location to set up a manufacturing plant.According to reliable sources, there has been a change in Volkswagen's business plan. Earlier, the company was thinking more in terms of a plant where it would assemble semi-knocked down

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A small software developer in Chennai, India has come up with a unique twist on backup that just might give more expensive, established solutions a run for their money.Vembu Technologies, a nascent backup and storage developer whose flagship product was formally introduced just a few months ago, may have hit a nerve with StoreGrid, a backup solution that uses extra space on small networks of

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BMW Group, Germany’s premium automobile maker, appears to have zeroed in on Chennai to set up its base in India. The Chennai facility is proposed to be an assembly for completely knocked down BMW units. The German car-maker is believed to be in the process of signing up for land in the Mahindra Industrial Park, near Chennai. An announcement to the effect is expected soon.Informed sources said,

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The country's first Internet route-server became a reality at 7.57 p.m. on Friday in Chennai, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran said here on Saturday.While inaugurating an information technology park promoted by Software Technology Parks of India at Kumaraguru College of Technology, Mr. Maran received a call on his mobile phone confirming the

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Nokia, the Finnish mobile handset major, is planning to locate its Network Operations Centre, for Asia operations, in Chennai, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Dayanidhi Maran, said on Monday.This is in addition to its plan to set up a mobile handset manufacturing unit near Chennai with an investment up to $150 million, Maran said after launching HCL's low cost

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CHENNAI, JUNE 8: A Chennai-based young scientist has claimed to have invented a superior ‘lossless’ compression technology for data transfer and management.With simple repetition coding, the new technology, Adaptive Binary Optimisation (ABO), will achieve not only ‘lossless’ compression but also more compression."In this ABO technology, we maintain a binary index to store the original location of

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Chennai: Chennai's Sathyam Cinemas has become the first in India to use high-definition digital movie projection technology when it launched its RDX with the premier of Star Wars III-Revenge of the Sith.RDX stands for `real digital experience.' Sathyam uses DLP Cinema technology developed by Texas Instruments. The benefits are crystal-clear image, rich sound and vibrant colour, and no dust,

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The project to widen the 20-kilometre stretch of Chennai’s Old Mahabalipuram Road, which links key software development centres to the city, is to be completed by mid-April 2006.The mid-April 2006 deadline was included in an agreement signed last month between IT Expressway Limited (the special purpose vehicle to implement the project) and Ahmed Zaki Resources Bhd, a Malaysian civil contractor

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The Chennai airport is undertaking a host of initiatives to ensure that becomes one of the top airports in the country. The Airports Authority of India has spent close to Rs 1.5 crore and has lined up many more initiatives. "Some airports are profit making while some loss making, in that light, Chennai is definitely a profit-making airport and has helped in initiating restructuring activities.

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The city police, with a view to providing further quality service to the people, proposed to go in for ISO certification and is trying something 'in this direction', a top police official said.Initially, the attempt would be to get the ISO 9001-2000 certification for at least one police station in each of the 12 police districts, Police Commissioner R Natraj told PTI."We are aiming for this.

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If you have already packed your bags to move to Bangalore in search of the dream tech job? Here's an eye opener. Chennai is going to be the biggest job generator in the coming months. Not only this, Telecom followed by IT and ITeS will remain active in hiring.The latest Ma Foi Employment Survey (MEtS) April – June 2005 revealed the hiring trends in India recently. MEtS is a Quarterly study on

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Chennai is all set to surpass Mumbai and the National Capital Region, NCR, in terms of the amount of office space that will be leased out this year. According to real estate consultants, this will put Chennai on number two on the list behind Bangalore. CNBC-TV18 reports that the trend is expected to bring in as many as three lakh new employees into the city in the next three years.There are at

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Chennai, Apr 21:Tata Elxsi, the product design arm of $14.25 billion Tata group, has set-up a design and development centre in Chennai to focus on wireless communications and networking and undertaking research on convergence technologies. The new office space of 10,000 sq ft in the heart of the city was inaugurated yesterday by the State IT secretary Vivek Harinarain.In networking, the company

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Friends,For a change, here is a news about Rajni and Subramaniyan...not ChennaiWhen G Subramaniyan left for Japan 18 years ago, he was penniless. Earlier this month, when he came back to India, he had success written all over him. He runs two successful restaurants in Japan, owns properties worth crores of rupees there and is now planning an Indian foray of his culinary adventure. And believe it

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CHENNAI: Asia's leading business space provider, Ascendas today announced the near-completion of the first phase of its land mark International Tech Park-Chennai (ITPC), setting a new benchmark for information technology parks in the country.Mr Cedric Foo, Singapore Minister for State for Defence and National Development and the Tamil Nadu Industries Minister, Mr Nainar Nagendran at Taramani,

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Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced that Chennai will have a metro rail on the lines of the one in New Delhi. The first phase was proposed to be implemented between 2005 and 2010 at a cost of Rs 5086.85 crore.The State government had already got a feasibility report from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in response to its request for a Detailed Project Report (DPR), Jayalalithaa

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Chennai, Apr 11:A motor vehicle spare parts-manufacturing park is coming up near Singaperumal Koil in an area of 1,343 acres, State Industries Ministers Nainar Nagendran said today. During question hour, the Minister said the park was coming up with the assistance of Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation. The park would be established at a cost Rs 232 crore and provide direct employment to

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BANGALORE, India — Intel Corp. will locate a production facility in the southern Indian city of Chennai, according to a news report Monday (April 11) quoting India's union minister for communications and information technology, Dayanidhi Maran.No further details about what will be manufactured at the proposed plant, or whether it will be a fabrication facility, were available. Past reports have

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday pledged full support for bringing Formula One racing to Chennai.She gave the assurance when racing icon Narain Karthikeyan, the first ever Indian to feature in F1, called on her at the Secretariat, an official release said.During the meeting, Karthikeyan explained all the features of F1 racing and the tremendous viewership the sport commanded.He

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Sunday, 10 April , 2005, 11:31Chennai: @Road, a US-based company that enables other companies manages a large network of field staff or a mobile workforce, hopes to make Chennai a base for expanding its Asia operations.Addressing reporters, Krish Panu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, @Road, said the company inaugurated its expanded operations and facilities in Chennai at the Elnet Software

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CHENNAI, APRIL 7: Taj Business Hotels (TBH) is studying the option of setting up a business class hotel in the IT corridor, in Chennai. “ We are buoyant about our business prospects in Chennai and would be looking at setting up a hotel in the Technology-Airport area”, said Ms Jyothi Narang, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Taj Business Hotels, at a press briefing here on Thursday.Taj GVK, the joint

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Chennai, April 6 (PTI): A 13-kms Express Highway from Chennai Port to Maduravayal to facilitate easy movement of containers from the port will be constructed at a cost of Rs 750 crore, Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T R Baalu said today.National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and Chennai Port Trust (ChPT) would hold 30 per cent equity stake each in the proposed project

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The Lifeline Rigid Hospital group in mid-May will open a 200-bed multi-specialty hospital in Perungudi, a suburb south of Chennai. The group has invested Rs 35 crore in the hospital.A key feature of the hospital would be its middle-class orientation in pricing. Lifeline Rigid’s chairman and chief surgeon J S Rajkumar said that the hospital's rates would be about 60 per cent to 70 per cent of the

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April 06, 2005 11:42 ISTGlobal mobile handset major Nokia on Wednesday announced that it will set up a manufacturing facility for mobile devices at Chennai in India.Pekka Ala Pietila, President, Nokia, informed Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran from Helsinki about the company board's decision to set up the manufacturing plant in Chennai, official sources said.The manufacturing unit in Chennai will

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