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The article focuses on the expansion of Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers' cement manufacturing unit in Karur, Tamil Nadu in India.

The article reports on the plan of BASF to exit the paper optical brighteners business in Europe and relocate paper dye production from Grenzach, Germany, to Ankleshwar, India.

This article deals with the decision of the Delhi High Court to dismiss six petitions against the entry of foreign newspapers into India, as of March 1994.

The article offers information on the sixth edition of the popular International Conference on Electronic Warfare in India, EWCI 2020 organized by the India Chapter of Association of Old Crows, and held during February, 17-20 2020 in Bangalore. It featured that EWCI 2020 has started off with a traditional Inaugural Function in the presence of several dignitaries; and also presented a large number of technical papers.

The article presents an outlook on the economy and chemical industry of India for 2011. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) believes that the strong economic development of India will continue in 2011. The Indian Chemical Council (ICC) is expecting stronger growth for the Indian chemical industry in 2011. Some of the sectors of the Indian chemical industry which experienced slower recovery from the downturn, include cement additives, dyestuffs and paper chemicals.

The article focuses on the consultation paper for goods and services tax (GST) system released by the government of India. The consultation paper provides taxpayers with information related to the suggested structure and design of the taxation system for goods and services that is due for implementation in 2010.

The article reports on the decision of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to make its agenda papers and minutes of its agenda meetings publicly available. Papers and minutes can be accessed on the Web site of SEBI after each board meeting, which will provide citizens with greater insight into regulatory provisions and their formulation. SEBI also made the documents available on its Web site each week in late November 2008.

The article presents information on a new process from India which promises to extract valuable chitin and protein from shrimp shells. It offers information on Christopher Bluemel, founder of Mumbai, India-based i-Chess, who has given the idea for extracting chitin from shrimp shells. It discusses that chitosan from chitin is used in weightloss supplements, pharmaceutical excipients, and in the paper and textile industries.

The article reports that Indian chemist Pattium Chiranjeevi was found guilty of plagiarizing and/or falsifying more than 70 research papers published in a wide variety of Western scientific journals between 2004 and 2007. Publishers are getting rid of Chiranjeevi's falsified research. Some journal editors said that is one of the most spectacular and outrageous cases of scientific fraud they have ever seen.

The article discusses the highlights of the Second International Conference on Electronic Warfare (EW) held by the Association of Old Crows (AOC) India at the National Science Seminar Complex in Bangalore on February 21-24, 2012. It included pre-conference tutorials on varying topics such as airborne self protection suite and EW and radar threat simulators. About 81 papers were presented at the event, 25 of them were from abroad. The event also held a dinner and a cultural program.

The article announces the winners of the first India legal transaction awards from the magazine "AsiaLaw" in 2008, including the acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rove by Tata, a syndicated term loan facility for Ballarpur Paper and the launch of an initial public offering (IPO) by Reliance Power.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference on October 10, 2007 at the 30th-floor of the Reuters Conference Center in Times Square, New York, is presented. It featured representatives from Allen & Overy, Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Weil Gotshal & Manges and president Bharat Whaklu of Tata Inc. The British American Business Association gathered them in to hear from a panel of experts on the prospects for Indian and Chinese business.

The article reports on the plan of Rohm and Haas to double the capacity for acrylic emulsions at its 35,000-m.t./year Taloja, India facility. It has also opened a new $12-million acrylic emulsions facility at Chennai, India. The Chennai plant has capacity to make 30,000-40,000 m.t./year of acrylic emulsions used to produce adhesives, leather, paper, paints and coatings, and textiles.

The article examines the trend in open access (OA) publishing in 2006. During a keynote address at the Internet Librarian International Conference, Danny Quah from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Great Britain asserted that scholarly publishing was an economic anomaly. Blackwell Publishing has released a best practices white paper on ethics in scholarly journal publishing. An op-ed piece in the November 1, 2006 issue of Indian newspaper The Hindu provides an overview of the OA movement.

Offers news briefs related to libraries as of November 1, 2000. Presentation of a collection of notebooks and papers of the poet William Butler Yeats to the National Library of Ireland; Closure of libraries during a one-day strike in September 2000 in Scotland; Efforts to save rare books which were damaged by monsoon floods at a library in Hyderabad, India; Journalists' library which was opened by the Freedom Forum in Bamako, Mali; Laws requiring schools to hire librarians by the Education Ministry in Japan.

Focuses on two donations of papers to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers' archives which present glimpses of the railway engineer's life in India in the first half of the 20th century. Sequence of photographs showing bridge building on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway in 1905; Record of activities of Norman Charles Watney.

Reports on the public dispute between India's Dalmia Group and German privatization agency Treuhandanstalt involving two fibermaker and a pulp and paper operation acquired by the Indian firm since 1991. Raw material and utility creditors sequestration order on the fiber business; Dalmia chairman Sanjay Dalmia on the sequestration; Start of bancruptcy procedures against Thuringische Faser Schwarza (TFS).

Information about several papers discussed at a conference in Chandigarh, India entitled "Theatres of Decolonization" is presented. Topics included art, architecture, decolonization, and others. Gayatri Spivak delivered the final keynote speech focusing on architecture, urbanism, and social redistribution.

The article presents the author's experience in redesigning a manual typewriter while working in a large company in India. It recalls how the author dealt with a heavy touch typewriter when he was assigned in the mechanism design group and was asked to redesign the six-bar linkage of the typing keys to a more efficient eight-bar linkage system. It notes how the author solved the problem by carefully analyzing each component of the manual typewriter.