Manipal Cure and Care launches New Centre at JP Nagar, Bangalore

September 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - State-run Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) achieved a milestone when it delivered the country's first standard gauge metro car on Friday. Manufactured by compiling global standards, the metro train is a four-car formation, comprising two driving trailer cars and two motorcars with a capacity to carry 1,506 passengers.

September 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Reliance Mobile Thursday launched a search platform with maps data, BIGMaps, on its GSM network, enabling users to search for any local information on an all-India basis, a top official said here. The company now plans to offer the service on the Internet soon, according to BIGMaps COO Manav Sethi.

September 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Reliance Mobile Thursday launched a search platform with maps data, BIGMaps, on its GSM network, enabling users to search for any local information on an all-India basis, a top official said here. The company now plans to offer the service on the Internet soon, according to BIGMaps COO Manav Sethi.

July 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - Bangalores urban poor, who reside mostly in slums, have hailed Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjees budget as pro-poor. Firstly, I appreciate Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for presenting a pro-poor budget with several sops for urban poor, Isaac Arul Selva (38), a slum dweller, told IANS.

June 30th, 2009 KATHMANDU - After the Manipal Education and Medical Group and global online tutoring company TutorVista came together last year to launch Manipal K-12 Education that aims to provide technology supports to schools, the venture is now poised to enter Nepal's education sector in a big way. Manipal, which already has a collaboration with the government of Nepal since 1994 to run the Manipal College of Medical Sciences and a teaching hospital in Pokhara city, has teamed up with the Chaudhary Group, one of the biggest business houses in Nepal, with diverse interests ranging from construction, hotels and food and beverages, to run schools and high schools in Nepal.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress veteran and former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief lost to Congressman-turned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee D.B.

May 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - TNT Post, the postal department of the Netherlands, has released four postage stamps to honour Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's contribution to humanity. Two of the stamps carry photographs of Ravi Shankar.

May 3rd, 2009 BANGALORE - The elections in India's tech hub are over and while Bangaloreans await the poll results, citizen groups have drawn up a wish list of what they want the new leaders to do. Though the voter turnout in Bangalore was not very encouraging - less than 50 percent of around six million voters cast their ballots on April 23 - it has not dampened the people's enthusiasm.

April 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - For software professional Amit Saxena, 32, Thursday came as a 'good mid-week break' from work as he enjoyed the day catching up with two latest Hollywood flicks at his home in upscale Koramangala suburb in Bangalore. 'I have registered myself as a voter in my hometown Lucknow.

April 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Which is my new constituency? Where will I get my voter ID card from? How can I correct my name in the voter list? Queries like these, which run into about 6,000 every day, are literally raining at the help-line centre set up by the election authorities in India's Tech hub Bangalore, which votes Thursday. The 24X7 helpline number 22228888 started April 10 will receive calls till polling ends Thursday.

April 12th, 2009 CHENNAI/BANGALORE - Relatives of V. Bhargav, 25, who died in a bungee jump mishap mourned his death Sunday and recalled that the victim had returned to his roots from Hong Kong a fortnight ago 'only to die prematurely'.

April 10th, 2009 NOIDA - Fortune Park Hotels, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, Friday opened its second property in Noida after one in Gurgaon and intends to come up with five more in the national capital region (NCR) in near future, a senior company official said. 'With a large number of corporate and other institutions based in the region, we are sure of receiving good response for our hotel,' Fortune Hotels president Suresh Kumar said after the opening of Fortune Inn Grazia.

February 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - A retired professor of the Indian Institute of Science, his wife and son were found murdered at their residence in upscale Rabindranath Tagore Nagar here, the police said Monday. P.L. Sachdev, 65, wife Rita, 60, and son Munna, 35, were found stangulated, a police spokesperson said.

February 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Continuing to reel under an indefinite strike called by the ruling Maoist party's trade union since Monday, the teaching hospital run by the Manipal College of Medical Sciences in Pokhara says the shutdown is not over a demand for pay hike but because of its Indian connection. Established in 1994 as a joint venture between the Manipal Group of India and the government of Nepal, the college and hospital have been experiencing frequent disruptions since last year after the former Maoist guerrillas came to power through an election and their trade union began to fight for supremacy at Manipal.

January 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Three morning walkers and a cyclist were killed in the upscale Indirangar area here Saturday when a car rammed into them, with the driver fleeing after abandoning the vehicle, police said. 'The incident occurred between 6 a.m.