Aptech Limited, a leading IT education and training company, has tied up with Italy’s Seven Rings International to train graduates in Soft Skills and Corporate Computing Skill Development.

Under the agreement, Aptech would be the exclusive training delivery partner for participants of Seven Rings International in India.

Hyderabad based Mold-Tek Technologies Limited has informed that it will acquire 100% stake in two engineering Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) companies namely US-based RMM Global LLC and its associate company technet Engineering Services, Thane.

However, the company did not disclose the value of the deal.

Both the companies are involved in providing structural engineering KPO services to high rise buildings in USA with annual revenues pegged at $ 2 million.

Hyderabad-based infrastructure major Nagarjuna Construction (NCCL) has bagged three orders worth Rs 474 crore from various firms.

The company has bagged first order worth Rs 252 crore from Engineers India for development of sports facilities and associated infrastructure development work for Commonwealth Games-2010 at North Campus, Delhi University. The project will be completed over a period of 18 months.

Software exporter HCL Technologies L

Aurobindo Pharma Limited, one of the country’s leading pharmaceutical companies has received the tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to manufacture and market Losartan Potassium tablets in multiple strengths.

Losartan Potassium tablets are generic equivalent of Merck Research Laboratories’ Cozaar in dosage of 25mg, 50mg and 100mg. The drug is used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure.

The sales of Losartan tablets were $1, 235 million for the year ended December 2007, according to an official statement.

Global financial services giant Merrill Lynch has acquired 50% stake in the Salarpuria Group’s Rs 150 crore five-star hotel project in Bangalore.

The company has picked stake in the special purpose vehicle (SPV) floated to build a five-star hotel in Bangalore. The proposed hotel, which will have 250 rooms, is to come up on 300,000 sq. ft. on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) between Sarjapur and Marathalli, opposite Cisco corporate office.