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Unitech group’s UCP gets bids up to Rs 2,700cr for Gurgaon SEZ

NEW DELHI: Unitech Corporate Parks, a Unitech group firm listed in London, has received bids of up to Rs 2,700 crore from six companies, including Blackstone, for sale of its IT Special economic Zone (SEZ) in Gurgaon. Listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market and set up to invest in commercial real estate of India, UCP has 60 per cent stake in the Gurgaon SEZ comprising 3.6 million sq ft commercial space. Unitech has remaining stake in the SEZ. UCP has given the mandate to property consultant Jones Lang LaSalle India to find out potential buyers. According to sources, UCP, which has put the Gurgaon SEZ on the block, has received […]




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SEZs: In standstill mode

On Monday, the government rolled out the promised “package of reforms” to boost the country’s exports. The commerce ministry notified the Amended Rules, 2013, for special economic zones (SEZs) launched with much fanfare over seven years ago. However, real estate developers are not very enthused by the amended policy. The reason, they say, is not just policy, but several other factors that have stifled the growth of a sector, which posted growth of over 121 per cent in exports in 2009-10. As per the amended policy, the minimum land requirement norms have been eased, graded scale for minimum land criteria has been introduced, an exit policy for SEZ units has […]




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Govt mulls single window clearance for SEZs in Madhya Pradesh

INDORE: To ensure hassle-free establishment of special economic zones (SEZs) in Indore, the state government is all set to go for Development Control Regulation (DCR). On the lines of Gujarat, a single window clearance system is being planned for them. A decision to this effect is likely to be taken during the meeting of the state cabinet in Bhopal on Wednesday. Once cleared, the Act will empower the SEZ development commissioner to sort out the issues and give necessary permission to the SEZs that have already been allotted land by the state government and received notifications for the SEZ status. They include TCS, Infosys and Impetus. While TCS and Impetus […]




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29 SEZ developers including TCS, Parsvnath Infra & Unitech Infracon seek more time to implement projects

NEW DELHI: As many as 29 special economic zone developers including Tata Consultancy ServicesBSE -0.20 %, Parsvnath Infra and Navi Mumbai SEZ Pvt Ltd have sought more time from the government for implementing their projects. The inter-ministerial Board of Approval (BoA) chaired by Commerce Secretary S R Rao will consider these requests at its meeting on November 8. Posco-India Pvt Ltd, Unitech Infracon and Lodha Dwellers have also requested additional time for project implementation from the BoA, according to the agenda note of the meeting. The developers have cited reasons like global meltdown and fluctuating market conditions for delay in completion of projects. TCS, which is setting up IT/ITES zone […]




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Rise and Shine With the JBL® Horizon 2 Bluetooth Clock Radio: Sound That Kickstarts the Day

CES 2020 – LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 6, 2020 – It’s time to ditch your generic, piercing smartphone alarm. The JBL Horizon 2 Bluetooth clock radio and speaker duo customizes the wake-up experience to help make anyone a morning person. Following the success...




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When JBL Entered Gaming: Q&A with HARMAN’s Alfredo Fernandez Franco

Every sound makes a difference. This is of particular importance while playing today’s technology-powered and immersive video games. Since its inception, JBL has introduced countless innovative audio solutions that unlock unforgettable experiences....




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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019: Q&A with HARMAN’s Asaf Atzmon

With the 2019 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) upon us, we decided to get the latest download on the state of cybersecurity in the automotive industry from HARMAN’s Vice President & General Manager of Automotive Cybersecurity, Asaf Atzmon....




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Thousands of Amazon Shoppers Are Raving About This Palm-Sized Waterproof Speaker




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Le son Signature de JBL et un streaming musical facile : Découvrez l’enceinte Link Portable et la Link Music JBL®

Nouvelles lignes de basse percutantes et solos de guitare à tomber : les enceintes JBL Link Portable et Link Music viennent de sortir. Avec leur son signature 360 JBL, le Wi-Fi et le Bluetooth, Chromecast et Google Assistant intégrés, les enceintes sont aussi belles qu’intelligentes.




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JBL geluid én gemakkelijk muziek streamen: Maak kennis met de JBL® Link Portable en Link Music

Van knallende baslijnen tot vloeiende gitaarsolo’s, JBL introduceert de JBL Link Portable en Link Music. Ze zijn net zo handig als ze mooi zijn, de speakers zijn voorzien van 360 graden JBL’s kenmerkende sound, Wifi- en Bluetooth-connectiviteit en ingebouwde Chromecast en Google assistent.




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Bouw een feest met de draadloze JBL® Pulse 4

360° JBL geluid. Een fantastische lichtshow. Met de Pulse 4 van JBL zorg jij voor een goede sfeer, of je nu wilt feesten of chillen. Van woonkamer tot strandfeest (en alles daartussenin), de nieuwe JBL Pulse 4 staat voor je klaar.




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JBL® LIVE 300TWS: Geluid zonder grenzen

Verstrikte snoertjes zijn verleden tijd met de splinternieuwe JBL LIVE 300TWS. De JBL LIVE 300TWS is volledig draadloos, verbindt naadloos en heeft een verfijnde vormgeving. Zo geniet je overal en altijd van je eigen geluid. Dankzij de krachtige drivers is het basgeluid nog beter en popt die muziek echt uit je afspeellijst.




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HARMAN Enables Mercedes-Benz to Keep Drivers Connected With Seamless Apple Watch App Integration

At HARMAN, our Connected Car division designs, engineers and innovates every day to provide connected solutions for our most valued partners, and our compute model integration with Mercedes-Benz is no exception. Earlier this year, the luxury vehicle ...




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HARMAN gibt Einblick in die Zukunft des Musikhörens

Was wäre, wenn Kopfhörer Stimmungen erkennen und die Musikauswahl ihrer Nutzer automatisch individuell daran anpassen könnten? Wie wäre es mit einer App, die Lieblingsballaden auf Knopfdruck in einen Bass-lastigen EDM-Track für spontane Tanzeinlagen verwandeln kann? HARMAN International, eine hundertprozentige Tochtergesellschaft von Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., die sich auf vernetzte Technologien für Automobil-, Konsum- und Unternehmensmärkte konzentriert, hat zu diesen Fragen sowie zu aktuellen Hörgewohnheiten und der Zukunft des Hörens eine neue Verbraucherstudie1 veröffentlicht.




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Mazda and Aha by HARMAN Enter into Global Partnership to Provide Connected Entertainment System in Redesigned 2014 Mazda3 Worldwide including Japan

Palo Alto, CA – Aha™ by HARMAN today announced that the new 2014 Mazda3 to be launched in Japan, the United States, and a number of additional North American and Asian Countries this fall will offer access to the Aha free service with the ability to select presets from more than 40,000* audio and information stations from Japan and other countries.




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HARMAN to Establish New Global Development Center in Suzhou, China

AUTO CHINA 2014, BEIJING -- Harman International Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HAR), the global premium audio and infotainment group, said today that it will open a new global research and development center in Suzhou, China in mid 2015, initially adding about 100 new employees at the site. Construction of the new 10,000 sq. m. (100,000 sq. ft.) facility will begin in June. The announcement was made during the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition.




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Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation

By shining an X-ray beam through a diamond, scientists have made X-rays with unique quantum properties that let them make sharper images using less radiation




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How big is a proton? We may finally have the answer to this puzzle

Our measurements of the proton’s radius clash with one another, which could be a problem for the laws of physics. But a new test has helped unravel the mystery




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Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42

Can we write any number as the sum of three cubes? It’s a puzzle that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries. Now we have finally have an answer for 42




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The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics

If you're struggling to understand the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity, you need all the help you can get – even borrowing Buddhist mysticism, shows a new book




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Nobel prize in physics for discovery of exoplanet orbiting a star

The Nobel prize in physics has been jointly awarded to  James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.




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Amazon enters quantum computing race with cloud quantum processors

Amazon has combined three types of quantum computing processors from D-Wave Systems, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing into a cloud service to test quantum algorithms




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This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero

A glass bead has been brought down to its coldest possible quantum state using a new method that may one day allow us to observe an object in two places at once




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Mathematicians who revealed the power of random walks win Abel prize

The 2020 Abel prize was awarded to mathematicians Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis for their use of probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics




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Even a computer the size of the universe can’t predict everything

Fundamental limits on space and time mean that the motion of three black holes is impossible to predict, even with the most powerful computer that could ever be built




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In the Amazon, an indigenous nurse volunteers in coronavirus fight

Vicente Piratapuia, 69, of the Piratapuia tribe had a high fever and could hardly breathe, but he refused to leave his home on the outskirts of the Amazon rainforest's biggest city.




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Robots to the rescue! Arizona students in lockdown will still get their graduation day

Juili Kale's dreams to receive her master's degree diploma in a ceremony cheered on by her family were dashed by the coronavirus - until robots came to the rescue.




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Brazil refuge welcomes eagle hatchling

Brazil's Bela Vista Biological Refuge Veterinarian Pedro Enrrique Ferreira says the Harpy Eagle hatchling born on April 26 only weighs 150 grams now but could one day grow to weigh some 20 pounds.




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Carbon Shift: Big oil is competing on net zero targets

Shell has raised the environmental stakes among major oil and gas producers with plans to dramatically reduce the carbon impact of its business.




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Replanting the Amazon

Local NGOs are working hard to plant seedlings over thousands of square miles of deforested land in Brazil.




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German youth jazz-up social distancing for climate demo

Young German climate-strikers on Friday (April 24) got creative with their social distancing, set up hundreds of cardboard cutouts to represent protesters taking part in the Fridays for Future demonstration.




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Pies fly in Russia with pizza delivering drones

A pizza chain in northern Russia begins to deliver pizza by Russian-made drones. Elly Park reports.




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Mustard prices surge, squeezing producers

Mustard prices have jumped this fall to their highest level in seven years as growers in Western Canada, which supplies three-quarters of the world's traded mustard seed, turn in their smallest crop in nine years, threatening to drive up costs of the yellow condiment for producers.




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Exclusive: 'High Times' magazine to go public - sources

The iconic marijuana magazine is set to launch an initial public offering as the pot industry booms.




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A lazy cave salamander didn't move from the same spot for 7 years

Olm are salamanders that spend all their lives in pitch-black caves, and it turns out they don’t move very much – sometimes lurking in the same spot for years




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Freeze-dried jellyfish could help us grow new human skin

The bell of an upside-down jellyfish has structures that can provide a scaffold for growing human skin cells, which could be used to help repair wounds after surgery or a bad burn




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Brazilian toads that eat scorpions can survive the venom of 10 stings

Brazil’s yellow cururu toads eat scorpions, and they can survive five times the dose of scorpion venom that would kill a mouse – the same as 10 stings




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Tiny bird-like dinosaur discovered in amber might actually be a lizard

A 99-million-year-old skull recently discovered in amber might actually belong to a lizard, rather than a tiny bird-like dinosaur as first thought




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Dazzling damselflies and a SpaceX plume commended by photo awards

An aerial view of crabeater seals in Antarctica, mating damselflies and a twilight rocket launch were among the most lauded entries to the inaugural Nature TTL Photographer of the Year award




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How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery

For years, the oldest turtle fossils we could find had fully formed shells. Now, more primitive fossils are revealing the strange tale of how turtle shells evolved




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Brazil refuge welcomes eagle hatchling

Brazil's Bela Vista Biological Refuge Veterinarian Pedro Enrrique Ferreira says the Harpy Eagle hatchling born on April 26 only weighs 150 grams now but could one day grow to weigh some 20 pounds.




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California's worst wildfire in history is now the size of Los Angeles

Firefighters are battling high winds and extreme heat as they try to slow the spread of the biggest wildfire ever recorded in California




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New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa's full size

The “Equal Earth” projection shows the true area of continents such as Africa without greatly distorting their shapes and is already being adopted by NASA




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Front-runner in Brazil’s election wants to pull out of climate treaty

The far-right winner of the first round of Brazil's presidential election wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and cut down the Amazon rainforest




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Extreme flooding leads to deaths in Indonesia and Mozambique

Dozens of people have died in Indonesia and Mozambique as a result of storms and flooding, possibly driven by climate change




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Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet

No matter how deep we dig, life has always found a way to survive. The remarkable story of these impossible microbes can teach us about how life evolved




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The Amazon rainforest depends on fires in Africa for a vital nutrient

We thought the Amazon got the essential nutrient phosphorus from Saharan dust. Now it appears it mainly comes from forest fires and people burning wood




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Dazzling damselflies and a SpaceX plume commended by photo awards

An aerial view of crabeater seals in Antarctica, mating damselflies and a twilight rocket launch were among the most lauded entries to the inaugural Nature TTL Photographer of the Year award




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U.S. lawmakers urge support for Taiwan at WHO, as U.S. criticizes China

The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwan's participation in the World Health Organization, citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic.




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Mangoes off the menu for lonely primates, as Kiev zoo struggles in lockdown

Mykhailo Pinchuk takes a short walk around his empty zoo, greeting some animals with a stroke and a morsel of food.