Innovation practitioner certification program launched

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Public Private Partnership (PPP) model is being looked at for some of the Innovation Universities that are to be set up by the Government (the 11th Five Year Plan proposes the establishment of 14 such universities aimed at world class standards). The Government is already in the process of involving a PPP model in school education, said Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal while meeting with Minister for Trade, Investment and Business of the United Kingdom, Lord Mervyn Davies.

September 12th, 2009 KOCHI - Multinational paint manufacturer National Paints Saturday opened its first factory in India at Angamali industrial area in Kerala. The plant will have a daily production capacity of 120,000 litres, the company said.

September 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Tea plantation firm Amalgamated Plantation, in which Tata Tea holds a 49.98 percent stake, is expecting a fall in production this fiscal due to poor monsoon, a top company official said here Thursday. "Early rains are very important for tea plantation, which was very negligible this year.

August 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 27-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a black magic practitioner here, police said Sunday. The woman visited the black magic practitioner, Tarachand, Thursday in outer Delhi's Narela area, a police officer said.

August 1st, 2009 Obama: 'Spirit of innovation' key to the futureWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, citing fresh evidence the recession is winding down, says the country's future economic prosperity depends on building a new, stronger foundation and recapturing the "spirit of innovation." "Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. The president cited Friday's Commerce Department report showing that in the last few months the economy overall has done "measurably better than expected." He credited his $787 billion economic stimulus program for much of that progress.

July 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - SonicWALL, a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its Authorized Training Center (ATC) in India by joining hands with WestconINDIA. This move is intended to strengthen SonicWALL's channel support in India by improving and expanding partner and end-user training resources.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 40-year-old occult practitioner was arrested here Friday for raping a Class 12 student after allegedly hypnotising her and promising her better grades in her exams, police said. Raj Kumar, a resident of Geeta Colony in east Delhi, claimed to have supernatural powers and fooled people in nearby Gandhi Nagar into believing that he had cures for all diseases and problems, an official said.

July 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - Sify Technologies Limited announced today the launch of Managed MPLS Service and Managed Internet Service as part of the Cisco Managed Services Channel Program (MSCP). This service is the first of a series of Managed Services that Sify Technologies plans to launch over the next two years.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Biocon Limited have launched the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management (BCIM) to promote innovation in business. The Cell will be established under the aegis of the Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC) at the ISB.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's biotechnology major Biocon Ltd. Monday announced the setting up of a cell for innovation management at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business (ISB) with a corpus of Rs.1 crore.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - HDI, USA, (www.thinkhdi.com), the premier certification body and largest membership association for the service and support industry, announced it's advent into India with two certification courses scheduled for June 22 to June 26 in Bangalore. HDI has announced these courses in partnership with QAI, (www.qaiglobal.com), a global consulting and workforce development organization.

May 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - COPC, the world's leading Business Excellence certification in the contact center industry worldwide, has recently launched secen new certifications in association with QAI, their exclusive implementation partner in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Starting April 2009 companies have the flexibility of going for certification for specific processes like hiring, training and skills verification, transaction monitoring, forecasting, staffing, scheduling and metrics Management.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Department of Science and Technology (DST) Monday launched the India Innovation Initiative (i3) in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and communication analyst Agilent Technologies. Under the initiative, DST will launch a nation-wide competition of technology-based ideas in which innovators above 18 years of age can participate.

February 8th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Defence Minister A.K. Antony will launch the second phase of the cruise missile maker Brahmos Aerospace's development programme here Tuesday, a top official said Monday.

February 6th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - MobMe and Light Logics, two incubated companies based in Kerala's Technopark, have won national innovation awards, it was announced here Saturday. MobMe won the Nasscom Innovation Awards 2008 for the 'Most Innovative Start-up' and the Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) award for the 'Best Start-up ICT Company of 2008'.