New Satyam board’s decision awaited on Gujarat project

September 11th, 2009 CANBERA - Mahindra Satyam has pulled out of a $75 million software development project that the disgraced Satyam founder had promised to set up in Australia's Geelong city, media reports said Friday. Sujit Baksi, the company's president of corporate affairs, formally conveyed the decision to the government of Victoria state through a letter addressed to provincial IT Minister John Lenders, the Australian daily reported.

September 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Mahindra Satyam has pulled out of a 75 million dollars software development project at Deakin University that was set to create 2000 jobs in Geelong, Victoria. The company's president of corporate affairs, Sujit Baksi, informed the state government of its intention in a letter to IT minister John Lenders.

September 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Government of Victoria's decision to give a grant to Indian software giant Satyam Computers now Mahindra Satyam despite failing a federal government litmus test for funding is shrouded in mystery. The grant by Victoria controversially enabled the original firm to embark on the 75 million dollar Geelong IT project.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Britain-based IT and consulting firm Invensys Process Systems (IPS) Monday signed a deal with China's Shandong III Electric Power Construction Corp (SEPCO), which is setting up a 3,300-MW power plant in Gujarat, for providing software solutions. IPS will implement its Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system (DCS) technology in SEPCO's plant, being built in Kutch district of Gujarat, a company statement said.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Infrastructure development company Maytas Infra, which was embroiled in a major controversy last month over its acquisition by Satyam Computer, has bagged a Rs.1.1-billion (Rs.110-crore) contract from Southern Railway, the company said Tuesday. As per the contract, Maytas will double the broad gauge track between Chengalpattu and Villupuram, two districts in Tamil Nadu, the company said in a statement.

January 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekara Reddy Friday said the government may take a re-look at projects awarded to Maytas Infra, run by the sons of former Satyam Computer chairman B.

July 1st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tech Mahindra, the new owner of troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has for the first time confirmed its continued commitment to a 75 million dollars software development project in Geelong, Australia. There were grave concerns that the project would be axed after Satyam Computer Services founder and chairman, B.

March 17th, 2009 Telstra cancels 32 m dollar deal with Satyam MELBOURNE - Australian software major Telstra has dumped scandal-ridden outsourcing partner Satyam from an applications support contract believed to be worth 32 million dollars a year. EDS will pick up the embattled Indian outsourcing firm's IT contracts with Telstra, sources told The Australian.

April 7th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is recording short speeches for YouTube to keep in touch with voters across the country. According to Shashiranjan Yadav of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Modi records the speeches at his residence in between his campaign tours.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - DSP Meryll Lynch, a leading financial management and advisory firm, Wednesday announced it has terminated its advisory engagement with Satyam Computer following the Maytas fiasco. 'This is to inform you that we, DSP Meryll Lynch, have terminated our advisory engagement with Satyam Computer Services Ltd for considering various strategic options on Jan 6, 2009.

April 20th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Tech Mahindra, the new owner of scam-hit Satyam Computer Services, will announce an 'open offer' Tuesday to obtain an additional 20 percent stake in the software major, Satyam chairman Kiran Karnik said here Monday. Tech Mahindra, which deposited Rs.2,910 crore (Rs.29.1 billion) in an escrow account Monday for a 31 percent stake in Satyam, will see its total holding increase to 51 percent after the open offer.

January 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - State-owned trading company MMTC Ltd has rolled back its decision to invest in a special purpose vehicle created by the Maytas group that is owned by the sons of disgraced Satyam promoter B. Ramalinga Raju, the company said Friday.

February 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Infrastructure and construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Friday said it was studying the go-ahead given to scam-hit Satyam Computer Services to rope in a strategic investor with a combination of fresh equity and an open offer to shareholders. L&T is now the largest shareholder in Satyam.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A senior executive with Satyam Computer Services has told the government that the fraud-hit company needs at least Rs.150 crore (Rs.1.5 billion or $30 million) to take care of the health insurance liabilities of employees in the US. Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla said that the request was made in a mail from Ram Mynampati, who is in the US to speak with the clients of Satyam Computer Services and reinstate their confidence after the Rs.70 billion ($1.43 billion) scam admitted by its founders.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - The Company Law Board Wednesday asked the former founder of Satyam Computer Services B. Ramalinga Raju and two others to furnish their bank account and asset details while barring them from selling or pledging the company's shares till further notice.