Gujarat company picks coal mine in Australia

Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd has announced that its Australian Joint Venture (JV) company, Gujarat NRE FCGL Pty Ltd, has entered into an agreement to acquire the coal mining leases in the whole of old Avondale Colliery and part of Huntley Colliery in the Southern Coalfields of New South Wales, Australia.

According to information made available to the stock exchanges, the acquisition and development of the mines will cost about A$80 million (Rs 2,600 million). With this, the investment by the Indian company in the New South Wales coal mines would cross A$ 100 million (Rs 3,250 million).

Leading technology solutions provider, HP announced Wipro as its first Indian Global System Integration (GSI) partner.

HP has decided to strengthen its alliance with Wipro by extending the system integration partnership to HP's entire portfolio of HP open view suite of software. Under this alliance, HP and Wipro, will together maximize opportunities in the market to deliver Remote Management Services, Sytem Intergration and IT infrastructure Library consulting, using HP open view management software for global customers. Wipro will be HP's new GSI partner also along with Cap Gemini and Accenture for HP software. The partnership will help leverage Wipro's large open view skill pool at Bangalore and accessibility to each other's customers as well.