Hyderabad, Feb 10 : While the general elections are round the corner, an entrepreneur in Hyderabad is busy custom designing election vehicles for several political leaders.

K. Sudhakar, the owner of Sudha cars, who made a small fortune for himself by designing around 20 election vehicles during the last polls, has once again turned his garage into a workshop for making vehicles for his political clients.

Hyderabad, Feb. 5 : A S Murthy was appointed as the new CEO of the Satyam Computer Services on Thursday after the besieged board of the IT company upgraded his profile from the global business head.

Partho S Dutta and Homi Khusrokhan became Special Advisors of Satyam.

More arrests were being speculated during the day in 7,800 crore rupees fraud involving the IT giant.

CID officials probing the case have indicated more arrests in a fortnight.

Hyderabad, Feb 4 : The Andhra Pradesh police is expected to arrest more people in connection with the Rs. 7, 800 crore Satyam Computers fraud case.

"We are constantly scrutinising the seized documents and trying to retrieve data from hard-disks and laptops recovered during the raids in residences and offices of Satyam officials including its former chairman B Ramalinga Raju," a senior Central Bureau of Investigation (CID) official investigating the Satyam fraud said on Thursday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has loaded 25 trunks with seized documents that are being looked into by financial experts.

On 3rd February, when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology is launched; the people would also see a $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati.  

The latest $10 laptop project has arrived as a response to the $100 laptop of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, which he was trying to sell to India. This $10 laptop had been possible due to the efforts put in by students of Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT-Madras and involvement of PSUs like Semiconductor Complex.

Hyderabad, Jan. 28 : A city court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of Satyam''s tainted founder Ramalinga Raju, former managing director Rama Raju and former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas.

The hearing of separate petition related to the bail application and police custody of SRSR Holding general manager Gopala Krishna Raju is scheduled for Thursday.

Ramalinga Raju's held stakes in Satyam through SRSR Holding, which is promoted by Raju's family.

Ramalinga Raju, Rama Raju and Srinivas will remain in judicial custody till January 31.

Hyderabad, Jan. 25 : The Crime Branch of the Andhra Pradesh Police arrested two senior auditing executives of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Saturday here for their role in the multi-crore Satyam fraud.

PricewaterhouseCoopers was the company of auditors for Satyam Computers Services Limited and its role has been widely criticised for overlooking the manipulations mooted by B Ramalinga Raju, the founder and former Chairman of Satyam Computers.

Soon after their arrest, the PwC executives were sent to judicial remand till February 6.