The Ministry of Rural Development has released grant in aid worth Rs. 100,74,50,000/- (Rupees One Hundred crore Seventy Four Lakh and Fifty Thousand only) as 1st installment of Batch V (Supplementary) under ADB assisted RRSIP to the Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Agency (MPRRDA for the construction of Rural Roads in the State under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. MPRRDA is an Autonomous Body for receiving funds under PMGSY and is a duly Registered Society under Society Registration Act, towards the projects cleared by Asian Development Bank (ADB).

• Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries (DADF), GOI has notified Avian Influenza outbreak in Hazrabati and Nagar villages [block Khargram], district Murshidabad on 14th January, 2010. More epicentres surfaced in the same block (Haripur, Ninur, Pathai, Dhamaliara & Diara). State Government also notified outbreaks in the Faridpur, Budua, Khorjona, Simulia villages of Burwan Block.

POET Vice President of Commercial Development Scott Weishaar will discuss opportunities and challenges of adding such co-products to the ethanol production process at the Next Generation Bio-Based Chemicals Summit this week at the Westin San Diego in San Diego, Calif. Weishaar will be a panelist in the session titled "Perspectives of Biorefinery Owners and Developers on the Bio-Based Chemicals Value Chain" from 8-9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems"

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - NVIDIA Corp. announced today that it has recognized the University of Maryland as a CUDA Center of Excellence, placing it in an elite grouping of 9 other universities and research organizations worldwide.

CARY, NC - Banks looking to garner advanced measurement approaches (AMA) for assessment and management of operational risk require a comprehensive framework for capital estimation, which incorporates loss events across the enterprise. With that advance need in mind, Union Bank, N.A., has selected SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, to help manage risk more efficiently and with more rigor. Union Bank is familiar with the strength and quality offered by SAS risk management software as they selected SAS for credit risk management in May 2009.

In line with its continuing focus on new audio technologies, Fraunhofer is now able to offer a comprehensive range of codecs also for the Android operating system.

OPM is one of the largest manufacturers of mass-market paperback books in the world. Its clients include many of the most recognized brands in publishing, such as Random House, Pearson Education, Penguin, and McGraw-Hill. “We are always looking for ways to improve production and enhance the bottom line of our operation,” noted Mitch Weiss, Vice President of Sales, Offset Paperback Manufacturers. “We investigated a lot of options, and feel confident that the PROSPER 1000 Press will give us the advantage we need to add value to our clients and position our business to capture more revenue in the changing book publishing environment. In addition, we look forward to upgrading to the color capabilities of the KODAK PROSPER 5000XL Press in the near future.”

HP TRIM 7 – an advanced records management solution built on 24 years of experience and best practices – enables organizations to transparently manage all of their Microsoft SharePoint Server records in a single environment, regardless of the source. This includes documents as well as information found in SharePoint Server blogs, wikis, discussions, forms, calendars and workflows.

"GOL’s standards of safety, comfort and affordability for their passengers, as well as the need to equip their fleet for an evolving future airspace were, key factors in selecting Rockwell Collins for data link and MMR capabilities" said Jeff Standerski, vice president and general manager of Air Transport Systems for Rockwell Collins. "These are smart investments that will provide operators the advanced functionality and proven technology that will help GOL’s fleet perform at its best now and for years to come"

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that IC Plus Corp. licensed the MIPS32® 24KEfTM Pro synthesizable processor core for next-generation networking devices in the digital home. IC Plus, based in Taiwan, is a provider of integrated circuits for communications and networking.

ACS is the largest diversified business process outsourcing (BPO) firm in the world. Its expertise is in automating work processes and providing BPO and IT outsourcing services that range from processing over 1 million credit card applications and 12 million student loans each year to providing HR services for more than 4.4 million employees and retirees annually.

TORONTO, Half of Canadians (54 per cent) expect their pensions - whether a pension from an employer (29 per cent) or a government pension (25 per cent) - to be the single, largest source of income in retirement, followed by income from their investments (18 per cent), according to the 20th Annual RBC RRSP Poll. Yet, one-in-five (19 per cent) do not know what kind of pension plan they have.

As you join GetPaidToTry by registering to be a member, the site would be able to donate $1.00 for every new member. The collected donation amount would be given to the American Red Cross relief in helping the numerous victims of the recent earthquake disaster which happened in Haiti. To be a part of the Haiti Relief all you need to do is sign up the registration form in their site and complete filling up your account profile.

LOS ANGELES, California, U.S. and HONG KONG (February 8, 2010) – National Trademark Investigations, a California-based provider of professional investigative services for trademark professionals and brand owners in the United States, and I-OnAsia Ltd., a full service global investigations and security consultancy based in Hong Kong, today announced a strategic alliance through which the two organizations will provide aligned services to track and combat counterfeiting and intellectual property infringement worldwide.