Corporate


A haven for the tech-savvy
THERE is perhaps one must-see place that all visiting foreign dignitaries and CEOs to Bangalore, nay India, have on their whistle-stop agendas. Virtually everyone from Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, his Japanese and Singapore counterparts, to Intel's Cra ig Barrett, Star's Rupert Murdoch and GE's Jack Welch has made a beeline to Electronics City. For this is where infotech giants -- the pride of Bangalore -- such as Infosys, Wipro, and Siemens are housed.

Products galore
ONE of the companies that has chosen to set up its facilities at the electronic city at Bangalore is the Maini group which recently introduced India's first electric car in Bangalore.

Catching the public eye
IN these days of `oh so real' ads of tempting cars, clothing, fruits, movies, potato chips, sunglasses and pizzas, when was the last time anybody actually saw artists perched precariously on scaffolding, painting hoardings?

Information Technology


Helping get the act together
THE Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is a society set up by the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India, in 1991 with an objective to promote and facilitate software exports from the country.

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Connecting to the world
THE first occupant at Bangalore's Electronics City, ITI's plant was also the first telecom player in India to get ISO 9002 certification. Located on a lush 67-acre campus, the plant which makes a range of teleswitching systems was started in 1987 as an e xclusive pilot production plant making C-DOT exchanges.

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Trendy divinity
A Bangalore schoolboy looks at an idol of Lord Ganesha being got ready for the approaching Ganesh Chaturthi. Of late, idol-makers have started incorporating recent trends and events in their creations. This Ganesha is represented as rescuing people trapp ed in the Gujarat earthquake.

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