Ghaziabad:  Moving ahead on Dabur India Ltd’s efforts to act against counterfeit products racket, illegal manufacturing and packaging units in Lalganj of Pratapgarh area in Uttar Pradesh, involved in production of spurious Dabur Gulabari, were raided resulting in arrest of three persons and seizure of huge quantity of counterfeit products.
“Dabur India has been targeting such [...]

Los Angeles: “The Green Warriors of Chandi’s Fortress”, a zero-budget film shot on recycled tapes using a handy cam about an environmental campaign of Chandigarh, will form part of international “Green Lifestyle Film Festival” in University of California—Los Angeles (USA) from March 19-21.
Made by Dr. Gaurav Chabra with one-man crew, this film claimed to save [...]

Kalpana Palkhiwala writes: In the absence of scientific consensus and opposition from the State Governments and others, the Ministry of Environment & Forests on February 09, 2010  decided to impose a moratorium on commercialization of Bt brinjal until all concerns expressed by the public, NGOs, scientists and the State Governments are addressed adequately.
The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) in its [...]

London: (MW) – This Spring Sony offers two great new ways to fill the room with music from your iPod or iPhone.
The new ICF-DS11iP is an elegantly-styled speaker dock that charges your iPod or iPhone while pumping out crisp, powerful stereo sound. It’s joined by the ICF-C05iP dock/clock radio, a compact bedside solution for charging [...]

Chandigarh: Cell for Gender Development (CGD), Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, Punjab (MGSIPAP) organized a Seminar on “Social, Economic and Political Mainstreaming of Women in Punjab” to commemorate International Women’s Day.
Dr. Upinderjit Kaur, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Government of Punjab, graced the occasion. She released a book entitled “Ajoki Aurat – Dasha Te [...]

Cape Town: (MW) Lance Armstrong, LIVESTRONG founder and chairman and champion cyclist, launched the LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Campaign in South Africa with a visit to fellow cancer survivors at Cape Town’s Groote Schuur Hospital. The Campaign’s work in South Africa will focus on partnering with local patient and cancer advocacy groups to end the stigma of cancer [...]

Port Melbourne: (MW) – ThinkFlood, maker of RedEye remotes for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and leading home theater and two-channel audio importer TotalQ), today announced a strategic distribution partnership to address consumer and reseller demand in Australia.
TotalQ is now Austrialia’s exclusive distributor of RedEye remote, an advanced multi-room, multi-controller system; and RedEye mini, the [...]

New Delhi: (MW) By invitation from Mr. N K Goyal, President of the Communication, Multimedia and IT (CMAI) association of India, Norscan Instruments has joined India’s prominent business leaders as part of its Telecom community. CMAI, fosters growth and innovation through the introduction of best practices, technology and services from global technology leaders such as [...]

MANSFIELD: (MW) - IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., the global provider of advanced quality and service assurance solutions for digital video, today announced that it has expanded its family of products for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting and reporting performance of Microsoft(tm) Mediaroom(tm) deployments with the addition of IQDialogue(tm) Mediaroom(tm) Platform Manager. IneoQuest has also added the IQDialogue(tm) IPTV probe to its line [...]

Shimla: Himalya international BSE Listed  India’s first frozen food company today announced its entry in 4000 crore domestic market in  Nutraceuticals and  dietary supplements  by launching Nutritional Supplements under brand name 1 Daily  in NCR Delhi market. The company chairman Mr. Manmohan Malik told that company  has tied up with U S Based Global Reliance Inc  [...]

Mumbai: As the train heads to Mumbai from Marathwada, the air resonates with the ever-so-familiar poem from school, ‘Shikari aata hai, jaal failata hai. Daane ka lobh dikhata hai, lekin hamein jaal mein naïf fasna chahiye. The poem takes on a new meaning in Marathwada though: there are tales galore of the predator and prey [...]

Aligarh: Dr. S. M. Nair, Ex-Director of National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi said that protecting the environment is important for sustainable development. Sustainable development means development without environmental destruction.
Dr. Nair was delivering the keynote address at a two day national conference on the “Role of Museum in Environmental Education and Interpretation” organized by [...]

Aligarh: Prof. Jai Zharotia profoundly explained the methods of painting, which involved many layers of colours and textures presenting an amazing sight to watch meaningful things appearing as if from nowhere. Prof. Zharotia was demonstrating his painting on the third day of Workshop organized by the Department of Fine Arts. Prof. Zharotia is an eminent [...]

USA: Women of India have outperformed Indian men in philanthropy. Latest list of Forbes Asia of “48 Heroes of Philanthropy” contains only four Indians and all of them are women.
These philanthropic heroes are: Anu Aga (67, Director of Thermax; Thermax donates 1% of its profits to charity), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (56, Chairman of Biocon; contributed $10 [...]