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In today's knowledge-driven global economy, one industry in which India is among global leaders and has a firm footprint is the fast-growing information technology and business process outsourcing industry, which includes software development and back-office operations. This industry has not only emerged among the fastest growing contributors to the country's national income, but also the biggest employment generator.

Some Indian companies in the business like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, Wipro and Hindustan Computers have earned global repute for the quality of service and reach, while several large overseas players like Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, Google, Dell, Intel have set up shop in India, registering phenomenal growth.

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Tata Nano set to drive into Taiwan
By Manish Chand

Taipei, June 3 (IANS) Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car made by India's Tata Motors, is set to drive in to Taiwan, a manufacturing hub of iPods and green technologies, later this year.

US engineers' body lauds low-cost Indian toilet technology

New York, May 18 (IANS) A top American engineers' body has recognized the low-cost toilet technology developed by Indian NGO Sulabh International to improve community health, hygiene and environment in the developing world and in the process triggerring off social reform, restoring human rights and dignity to millions of downtrodden women involved in manual scavenging.

India's new fast-breeder on track, nuclear power from September next
By Venkatachari Jagannathan

With another critical component set to join the $1.25 billion fast-breeder reactor at Kalpakkam, some 80 km from the southern Indian metropolis of Chennai, scientists at the 500 mw nuclear power plant said the project will be up and running, as scheduled, by September next year.

Special train in India to showcase e-governance

New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Indian government will soon launch a special train to showcase its e-governance initiatives.

India plans to launch 10 satellites every year
By Fakir Balaji

Bangalore, March 31 (IANS) Indian space scientists and engineers are bracing up to launch an average of 10 satellites per year to meet the rising demand for various space applications, including communications and remote sensing, a top space scientist said.

The chilli hand grenade is ready to explode!
By Syed Zarir Hussain

Tezpur (Assam), March 18 (IANS) It's ready to explode and not just in the mouth. The 'bhut jolokia' - recognised as the hottest of spices - will pack a punch when mixed with handgrenades to deal with terrorists, as trials by Indian defence scientists have shown.

Delhi gets India's first remote controlled street lights

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) In a major move towards energy conservation, the capital's main civic agency Tuesday launched the country's first remote-controlled street lights that can be switched on and off using an internet-enabled main server located in the heart of the city.

Discounts attracting India's young to online shopping
By Shilpa Raina

New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Gen X Indians are getting used to shopping online for gifts and flowers. But clothes? Something that you touch and feel and then take into the trial room? Now huge discounts are tempting many young Indians to do all this virtually too.

A far quicker, cheaper swine flu test, courtesy Indian scientists
By Prashant K. Nanda

New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a swine flu testing kit that can diagnose the pandemic in just two hours and reduce the cost of a single test fivefold - to less than Rs.1,000.

Indian PM backs IPCC, disappointed with Copenhagen

New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday backed the beleaguered UN climate change panel, saying India had "full confidence" in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its leadership.