Thackerey lashes on Cong
Friday, 10 October, 2008

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has lashed out on Congress coming heavily on the party on its inefficiency to handle terror attacks.

"Throw the Congress out of power from everywhere in the country,'' he said.

Citicising the party for the frequent terror attacks he said that Congress had no rigt to continue in power.

--MP

Nomura to buy IT firms
Monday, 6 October, 2008

Japan company Nomura Holdings is all set to buy the Mumbai based Indian IT firms which provided support to the global investment bank Lehman Brothers which was closed down due to bankruptcy.

On the wake of this, Nomura has said that it will acquire the Indian companies Lehman Brothers Services India Private, Lehman Brothers Financial Services (India), and Lehman Brothers Structured Finance Services Private.

These companies were providing back office and IT support services to the US financial bank.

--MP

Terrorism is not a question of one individual-PM
Wednesday, 1 October, 2008

Asked about the removal of Home Minister regarding his handling of terrorism, PM today said there are problems in the system to counter terrorism and "it is not a question of one individual". "I think we are dealing with a difficult situation. It is not a question of one individual, it is a question of the system and we have problems. We need to improve our various mechanisms which are in place to counter terrorism," he said. He also said that the government will put its "best foot forward" while dealing with terrorism and left wing extremismas it constituted a "serious threat" to the country's unity.

IMImobile helps Mumbai Police target Drunk Drivers
Tuesday, 23 September, 2008

IMImobile, the global provider of value added services for mobile operators, content providers and media agencies, today announced that the company has teamed up with BPL Mobile to help Mumbai Police track drunk drivers.

Hyderabad based IMImobile has developed a unique customised solution for the Police force with an easily accessible mobile database and interface to track repeat and new drunk drivers. With BPL Mobile providing the network connectivity, Police are able to access criminal records at speed and crucially, at the scene of the crime via their mobile phones. Police are therefore able to check offenders' records with greater efficiency ensuring repeat offenders do not slip through the net and new offenders are logged on the system from the outset.

"We are pleased to able to offer this bespoke solution to Mumbai Police free of charge," said Mr. Vishwanath Alluri, IMImobile Chairman, Founder and CEO. "Drink-driving is a dangerous crime and any help we can provide to our busy Police force can only be a good thing. We hope to extend this solution to other parts of the country."

Mr. Harish Baijal, Deputy Commissioner Traffic Mumbai police, "With the support from IMImobile and BPL mobile, our officers can now get the information of previous convictions of drunk driving within a few seconds. This technology has been very beneficial and will help us in maintaining more discipline on Mumbai's roads."

Mr. Sunzay Passari, vice president, value added services, BPL Mobile said, "It has been a great experience working with IMImobile on this solution and we hope it continues to help Mumbai Police successfully record and track offenders of drunk driving."

An added benefit of the solution is the fact the system is able to send out SMS alerts on known offenders to the entire police units, especially useful during busy festival season. The database is confidential with only top ranking officials having complete access.

Local companies in Pune finding talent online
Sunday, 21 September, 2008

The growing organized sector in India is expected to create an additional one million jobs in 2008, with a prediction of 3 per cent growth in employment in 2008. Only faster mediums like job portals can quickly build this human chain to satisfy the demand. Indian online industry has already touched Rs80 million per annum benchmark and it would cross Rs100 million by next year.

Today companies from across all sectors and industries utilize online recruitment as it brings faster and effective results in today's fast paced world. The penetration of online recruitment is not only seen in large organized players in the country. In fact, a closer look at the trends indicate that local companies across cities are today reaching out to online job portals to fulfill their local job requirements too.

Confirming this trend Pune's leading job portal, www.myJobsinpune.com has a huge list of local companies signing up daily with them looking for accountants, mechanics, architects and engineers. Mr. Saurabh Shroff, Head marketing of myJobsinPune.com states, "These companies usually have no history of using the Internet as a tool for recruitment earlier. The change in approach today is predominantly due to the fact that online recruitment curbs expenditure and lengthy time-consuming traditional procedures."

Gone are the days when online recruitment was the exclusive domain of the technologically savvy, the curious and the ultra-sophisticated. Today, with this medium tried, tested and proven to be true and more importantly indispensable, professional recruiters and employers alike rely on job portals as a primary source of professional talent both on a stand-alone basis and in some cases to complement traditional hiring methods.

World Class Bike Services Center, Crystal Arch (architecture firm), Tejas Constructions, Vithai Placement (consultants) are a few of the first local companies in Pune to join hands with www.myjobsinpune.com for online recruitment. Similarly, local companies in the construction, chemical, textile, hardware industry, which till date did not require being tech or Internet savvy, have gradually started turning to online job portals for manpower requirements.Job portals also help ranking the candidates most compatible with a job description and contextual search, which can for example limit a hunt to only candidates who have used a certain skill in the past year or who live within 20 km or search for a term within a specific section of the resume. A Job portal hence comes as a transparent medium between the recruiter and the job seeker.

Terror mail orginated from Mumbai
Sunday, 14 September, 2008

The terror mail wich has been send by the militant group Indian Mujahideen warning of seriel blasts in Delhi has been traced to Mumbai.

According to the police, the mail is believed to have orginated from a computer based at Chembur of north east Mumbai.

The mail was sent little before the blast incident warning of terror acts in Delhi and was sent to various media outlets.

--MP

Jaya in fresh controversy
Tuesday, 9 September, 2008

The latest controversy involving Jaya Bachchan is over her remarks during a function in Mumbai while she was promoting a film ' Drona' starring her actor son Abhishek Bachchan.

Jaya while talking in the event has said that she would prefer to speak in Hindi as she comes from Uttar Pradesh. "Maharashtrian please forgive us", she said. However her statement has provoked the MNS leader Raj Thackeray who immediately sought an apology from Jaya claiming her remarks had hurt the sentiments ofthe Maharashtrians.

Further to it, the MNS chief even went on to attack the Bachchan clan, declaring a ban on all films featuring Bachchan and other family members.

--MP