Tata Motors commercial vehicles plant at Pune shall be shut down for 3 days again this month, owing to poor demand in the market. Demand for commercial vehicles has been severely hit by lack of vehicle financing, rising interest rates and higher input costs.

According to Sujeet Patil, leader, Tata Motors Employees Union, it was likely that the commercial vehicles plant would go in for block closure for another three days towards the end of December.

Pune, Nov. 29 : A female television producer who was trapped inside Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Hotel on Wednesday night, has said that she could feel the heat of the fire in the lobby and the firefight between the terrorists and the National Security Guard commandos.

Speaking from the safety of her home in Pune, Vaibhava Rele told Fox News that she had gone to the hotel for a production meeting, and added that when gunfire broke out, there were about 25 people in the room.

“We did hear loads of gunfire through the night. There was fire, there was smoke, there was water from sprinklers all around. “You could feel the heat of the fire in the lobby of the hotel,” she told Fox over phone.

Bangalore-based BPO Easiprocess is ready to set up its new office in Pune, which can house 500 employees in one shift.

The expansion of the new office is in view of potential third party clients that Easiprocess is confident of securing shortly.

Presently, Easiprocess has two offices in Bangalore - one that is functional and accommodates 100 workers and another that serves as a Disaster Recovery site.

Pune, Nov. 9 : Small-scale industry workers in Pune on Saturday lamented dull prospects due the cost cutting measures of Tata Motors.

Tata Motors Ltd, India''s largest vehicle maker, is closing two of its commercial vehicle plants for six days later this month to avoid inventory build-up, a spokesman for the company said on Friday.

Its commercial vehicle plant in Pune, in the western state of Maharashtra, will be shut from Nov. 21-26, while its commercial vehicle plant in Lucknow will be shut from Nov. 10-15, he said.

Pune (Maharashtra), Nov 7: Microsoft founder and co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, visited sex workers in Pune.

Gates along with his wife Melinda visited the red light area of Budhwar Peth in Pune to create awareness amongst the sex workers regarding AIDS on Thursday.

The purpose of Bill Gates'' visit to the area was also to review two projects, funded by the foundation, on prevention of sexually transmitted infection.

LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, is looking at selling one million monitors during this fiscal. 
The company is targeting to sell one million monitors (both CRT and LCD) in 2008-09, of which 6.5 lakh are in the LCD space and 3.5 lakh will be CRT monitors.

LG Electronics, a major player in the global flat panel display, has recently entered into the B2B space for corporate and enterprise customers to increase sales.