Four companies are battling for the largest ever public-private partnership project to build a light armoured carrier for the Indian Army"the Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV). The Army needs about 2,600 such vehicles over 20 years. All four bidders"Tata Motors, Mahindra Defence Systems, L&T and the government-owned Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)"have presented their designs and the evaluation is set to move to the final phase within a month. The Rs...
12:07 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: While the focus has been on the power struggle between Army Chief General VK Singh and the Defence Ministry, lost in the process is the real crisis facing the armed forces. General Singh had listed some of the critical deficiencies in ammunition and equipment in a leaked letter to the Prime Minister. Now, a CNN-IBN investigation shows that the problem could be much worse than imagined. In some...
09:28 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Kolkata: Dunlop India Ltd on Thursday moved an appeal before the Calcutta High Court challenging an order appointing a provisional liquidator on the assets of the company. A division bench comprising Justice KJ Sengupta and Justice Joymalyo Bagchi, taking up the appeal, directed that the provisional liquidator would work as special officer and make an inventory of the assets at the Sahaganj factory. It directed in an interim order that...
07:57 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Kolkata: An upgraded version of the 155mm Bofors gun, the Indian Army's most potent artillery weapon, will be ready for field trials in January 2013, a top official of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) said on Tuesday. "We are working on this upgraded version. This has been tried out in PXE (Proof and Experimental Establishment), Balasore," OFB chairperson Sashi Dhar Dimri said on the sidelines of its 210th anniversary here....
01:30 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Ministry has blacklisted six companies including Singapore Technologies, Israeli Military Industry and Germany's Rheinmetall Air Defence for 10 years for their alleged role in ordnance factory scam. The firms, including two Indian and one Russian, were blacklisted following action against former Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) Sudipta Ghosh who was chargesheeted by CBI for his alleged role in defence scams. "Consequent to the filing of the...
07:01 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Palakkad (Kerala): Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday said he was awaiting a report from Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister on public infrastructure, information and innovations, on steps for modernisation of the railways. He said this while laying the foundation stone of a coach factory in Kerala's Palakkad city. The factory, announced a couple of years ago, would come up near here over an area of 426 acres....
05:30 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kolkata: A fire engulfed a cotton and foam factory in Kolkata on Sunday night. There were no reports of any injuries, however. The factory is located in the Tangra industrial area. Twenty fire engines have been deployed at the spot. Rescue investigations are on. ...
11:21 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Kolkata: Retired employee Kailash Harijan succumbed to ailments generating from malnutrition and abject poverty at the closed Sahagunj unit of Dunlop tyre factory in Hooghly district or West Bengal. The 75-year-old used to stay with his wife and two sons at the staff quarters of Dunlop. The victim's family alleges that he did not receive his post-retirement dues from the company and the family used to survive on mid-day meal...
06:31 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Hyderabad: A senior official of a ceramics company was on Friday killed in an attack by workers after their leader died in police custody as large-scale violence rocked Yanam, a region of Puducherry but located in Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district. Yanam, known as a peaceful region, turned into a battle field as workers of Regency Ceramics attacked the house of the company's vice president (Operations) K.C. Chandrasekhar. He sustained...
03:36 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Just nine days after the AMRI Hospital fire tragedy, a massive fire breaks out in Kolkata again. ...
09:42 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Kolkata: A major fire broke out on Monday night at a slipper manufacturing unit in Tiljala area, police said. However, there was no report of any casualty or injury. The fire broke out at 10.50 pm in the manufacturing unit's godown where rubber was stored, police said. 15 fire tenders have been pressed into service to control the blaze, fire officials said, adding that the cause of the fire is...
06:01 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: A boiler explosion at a garment factory in Bangladesh left 2 people dead and over 50 others injured. The explosion sparked fears of a fire which triggered a stampede in the the 7 storeyed building in Dhaka. Thousands of workers rushed out of the seven-storey building after rumours of a fire spread inside the factory. As they scrambled out of the building, many were trampled underfoot. The injured...
07:39 AM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Cracking the whip, Maruti Suzuki India on Sunday dismissed 10 workers, terminated five trainees and suspended 10 employees in connection 'with the strike and violence at the Manesar factory premises'. In a statement, the company said the strike by the workers and the violence thereafter violated the agreement signed by the workers with the company management on October 1 in the presence of the Haryana government officials. "The...
07:36 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Eight persons were killed and several others injured in fire at a cracker factory at Rau near Indore. ...
02:42 PM, Oct 06, 2011
Kolkata: Ahead of the five-day Durga puja festival, a powerful explosion in a cracker factory rocked North Kolkata killing one person and injuring four others while pulling down a portion of a house in a congested area, police said. The blast occurred in an unauthorised cracker factory at Shyambazar, the hub of North Kolkata, causing a part of the building to collapse, police said. The deceased was identified as Bijoy...
07:37 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Four people died after a major fire broke out at a textile factory at Dombivli in Mumbai early on Thursday morning. The fire at the textile factory also injured 18 people, who were rescued by firemen. Efforts are still on to douse the fire. ...
09:01 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Thane: Four employees of an industrial plant died and three were critical following the leakage of gas at the Tarapur Industrial Estate in Thane on Tuesday night, police said. According to them, hydrogen sulphide gas leaked from a plant belonging to Sequential Scientific Limited. While four workers died, three were admitted to a local hospital in an unconscious state, police said. Two of the deceased have been identified as Haresh...
11:13 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Bhopal: Opposing the Jabalpur High Court's directive to the state government to shift the Union Carbide toxic waste to Nagpur, Bhopal gas victims have now pledged that they will not allow a repeat of Bhopal anywhere else in the country. The Bhopal victims are in touch with concerned citizens from Nagpur, who are planning to approach the Maharashtra high Court against this order. The 346 tones of toxic waste lying...
06:41 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: Indicating sluggishness in the economy, industrial growth fell to 5.6 per cent in May this year from 8.5 per cent in the same month last year, mainly due to the poor performance of the manufacturing and mining sectors. Factory output in the month of April, as measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), has also been revised downward to 5.7 per cent from the earlier...
12:21 PM, Jul 12, 2011
New Delhi: In a relief for Lafarge the Supreme Court has allowed the French cement giant to continue mining in the Khasi hills of Meghalaya. In a ruling, the apex court on Wednesday cleared the revised environmental clearance given to Lafarge by the Ministry of Environment in April 2010. The apex court in 2010 had stopped Lafarge from carrying out limestone mining in Meghalaya for its cement plant, saying mining...
12:30 PM, Jul 06, 2011
