The german ministry of education and research BMBF announced a new funding guideline for a contest to bring the opportunities and capabilities of German R&D clusters and networks to the Indian market. Following fields of technology are o... more »

Leading private equity (PE) firms are reluctant to enter the pharmaceutical R&D business in India. Last year leading PE players had taken stakes in Indian biotech and R&D outsourcing companies. It was therefore expected that they would a... more »

Recently the Haryana State Government recieved nearly 20 proposals from independant power producers (IPP) to set up facilities to generate power. The Haryana State Government has fixed a purchase price of between Rs 15 to Rs 16 per unit ... more »

RIL ( Reliance Industries Ltd ) plans to set up a storage and distribution base in Europe to sell petroleum products to European customers.Currently RIL produces 17 MT of petroleum products at Jamnagar,Gujarat.And by end 2008 it would ha... more »

ISRO, Indias premier space research organisation put 2 Indian satellites and 8 foreign nanosatellities into orbit yesterday.The rocket PSLV-C9 (polar satellite launch vehicle) carried a payload of 820 kg making it the worlds biggest sate... more »

Landline operators in India currently paying between 6 to 10 % of their gross revenue as license fee no longer have to pay the same. Although the Indian Goverment stands to lose Rs 20 milliarde on an annual basis this move will help tele... more »

Within the agreement of Indo-German cooperation in S&T of 1974 and the ICMR-GSF special arrangement of 1976 further renewed in 1990 with the addendum of ICMR-IB/BMBF at DLR of 2005, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), ... more »

The Central Drug Standard Control Organisation ( CDSCO ) is putting in place a system in which pharmaceutical companies can give details of their patented drugs.CDSCO will take cognisance of such informed patents while giving drug approv... more »

Ranbaxy Laborotories Ltd, is increasing its scientists head count from 400 to nearly 700 in the next 2 years. It plans to spin off a separate R & D arm- Ranbaxy Life Science Research Ltd to support greater discovery research as also the ... more »

Few months ago during the Autoexpo 2008 at New Delhi, Tata Motors was in the world spotlight when the Nano, the worlds first sub $ 2500 car was displayed to a wondering auto community. Again on 26 th March 2008, when Tata Motors announce... more »