Bangalore, Apr 10 : People associated with textile industry received tips to fight recession from a Japanese company at a seminar held in Bangalore.

The industrial sewing giant from Japan, Juki, has set up its Indian head quarter in Bangalore. It is providing training to the exporters, garment manufacturers and workers to come out of the tough situation.

The Japanese company conducted surveys on how the companies dealt with the financial crisis.

Mayur, training engineer, said at the seminar that at the time of recession everyone wanted quick delivery, faster production and higher productivity at a lower cost. So, through the seminar they wanted to provide knowledge how to achieve the targets.

ABB, a leader in power and automation technologies, on Wednesday announced the opening of its greenfield automation products facility near Bangalore.

The inauguration of latest facility is one of many initiatives that company has taken up in India to build and expand capacity to meet the needs of the future.

Come September and Toyota's sports utility vehicle 'Fortuner' will hit the Indian markets! The announcement about the SUV's projected launch was made by the Indian unit of Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday.

The world's biggest carmaker, which marks its Indian presence through a joint venture with the Kirloskar Group - Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd -, said that the SUV with a three-litre futuristic common-rail diesel engine will cost nearly Rs 20 lakh.

Close on the heels of fee-hike announcement by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the IIM Lucknow and IIM Bangalore too have announced that, from the forthcoming academic session, the fee for their flagship Post Graduate

Programme in Management (PGPM) will be increased Rs.1.5 lakh per annum.

The Bangalore-based Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has reported a `provisional' turnover of Rs. 4,618 crore for the year 2008-09, indicating a 12 percent increase over the year-before turnover figures of Rs. 4,102.54 crore.

In terms of the turnover per employee, figures depicted a year-on-year increase from Rs. 33.16 lakh to Rs. 38.6 lakh. The value added per employee also depicted an increase from Rs. 16 lakh to Rs. 18 lakh, as BEL exports also went up nearly 15 percent - from $15.43 million to $17.75 million.

Bangalore, Apr 2 : Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister, M Veerappa Moily, today filed his nomination for Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate from Chikballapur constituency.

Earlier in the day, he resigned as the Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC). Moily as the ARC chief was instrumental in bringing out reports on a variety of topics concerning governance as also one on terrorism.