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The Solidarity Fund QFL converts into shares $525,000 of the outstanding capital of an unsecured debenture issued by CVTech Group Inc. ... invited to consult the SEDAR database and the Corporation's Website at: www.groupecvtech.com. Andr Larame, MBA, President and CEO, CVTech Group Inc., (819)...

Angola: Repair of Hydrometric Stations Estimated At U.S. $67,000 ... with the signing of an understanding memorandum between FAO's representative to Angola, Anatolio Ndong Mba, and the chairman of the Environment Conservation and Rural Integrated Development Association (ACADIR), Jos ... More...

High-tech wine cap design wins $15,000 ... selected by audience vote - went to the same team: Arcus. Led by second-year MBA candidate Matt Vogel, who has had diabetes since adolescence, the team is developing technology ... More...

A mobile telephone number in Bahrain is on sale for $19,000. This mobile telephone number has become the most expensive in the history of the local market, for no reason other than aesthetics. Abdullah al-Hammadi, who specialises in selling mobile and licence plate numbers is obsessed with...

Nine mega-projects in the mineral-rich Chhota Nagpur plateau, which could add substantially to India's metal output and create a large number of jobs, are stuck over messy issues related to land acquisition, rehabilitation of displaced people, mining rights and plain politics. The statistics on...

Kochi, Jan 17 (UNI) Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will ceremonially lay the foundation stone for the proposed Rs 4,000 crore 'HDIL Cyber City' at Kalmaserry here on January 19, HDIL Chairman Rakesh Kumar Wadhawan said today. Addressing a press conference here, he said the Cyber City...

I thought this might interest some of you. Its a social enterprise competition sponsored by IIM-A and Piramal Foundation geared towards revolutionizing Indian Healthcare. More information below - What:The Piramal Prize a $25K Social Entrepreneurship Competition focused on democratizing health...

Will Bullion reach $1,000? If the experts are right, gold could be poised for another banner year in 2008. Experts say they expect continued weakness in the dollar and robust investment demand, and that prices for gold could surge to above $1,000 an ounce in the next 12 months, according to a...

By Claire Sibonney TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to get a C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them. Piotr Staniaszek, a 22-year-old oil and gas well tester in rural northwest Alberta, became a figure of...

India plans to set up about 1,000 automatic weather stations in the next financial year as part of the Indian Space Research Organisation's expansion programme to improve meteorological services. "About 1000 automatic weather stations are planned to be deployed during 2008-09," Director of...

The Aditya Birla Management Corporation is looking at raising total employee strength to 55,000 in its retail business alone, from 8,000 employees right now. Speaking at the seminar organized by the National HRD Network in Kolkata, Santrupt B Misra, director-HR and IT of the company, said, "We...

What does it take to start a company? Well, if you are Atul Khekade of Innovation Trip, then only $2,000 would be sufficient to bankroll a business -- a business that is expected to generate revenues of $250,000 by December and if all goes as planned, could well hit the million dollar mark by...

Rediff Business presents the TCS Smart Manager Case Contest # 31 for managers, along with The Smart Manager, the management magazine! We give you a profile and the history of a company. All you have to do is study it and post your solution by clicking here, in 500 words or less. The best...

Plagued by complaints against the high-handedness of private loan recovery agents, State Bank of India is looking to directly hire 3,000 marketing and recovery officers whose job profile would include "soft recovery" of loans. These officers, vacancies for which were notified on October 1 and...

The downslide at the stock market continued unabated for the third day today with jittery foreign investors resorting to huge sell-off in the aftermath of regulator SEBI's proposals to curb overseas inflows through instruments like participatory notes. Today's slide of 438.41 points in the BSE...

Sometime in mid-August, at the height of the sub-prime crisis in the US, Tata Mutual Fund MD Ved Prakash Chaturvedi predicted that we might see the 1,00,000 mark for the Sensex index in our lifetime. It sounded outlandish as the markets were then battling the fast FII outflows in July and the...

Top corporate honcho Mukesh Ambani makes close to Rs 1,000 every second for his flagship company Reliance Industries and, in turn, gets a reward of one per cent of this additional profit or Rs 10 per second. The paycheck of Ambani, already the richest Indian and highest paid corporate chief in...

Indian markets achieved yet another milestone on Wednesday; it opened positive and within seconds, hit a new high. The 30-share index took 5 days to reach 17,000 from 16,000. (See below for the timeline) The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 70 points at 16,969. The index is now up 114...

15 new IIT, IIMs; Rs 25,000 cr for farmers In his address to the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the country's independence on Wednesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the key initiatives of his Government would include massive increase in...

Victorinox Swiss army Platinum Diamond Knife for USD: $70,000 The Victorinox Swiss army Platinum Diamond Knife is based on the 74mm Executive-type Victorinox army knife, the shells are made of pure platinum 950, inset lengthwise with 430 flawless diamonds according to IF-VVS standards...