Mumbai-headquartered Zicom Electronic Security Systems Ltd has bagged an order worth Rs 7.5 crore. The company has not disclosed the name of the buyer firm.

The contract involves supply, installation, commissioning and project management of wireless broadband outdoor surveillance system for Gurgaon on turn key basis.

Recently, company's board has approved raising up to $20 million funds, through issue of overseas convertible bonds, global depositary receipts or other instruments.

Samsung Telecommunications India, the number two mobile handsets maker in the country, has launched a high-end phone christened OMNIA SGH-i900 in the Indian market, to compete with Apple's iPhone and Nokia N96.

Beijing  - China on Friday launched its Shenzhou VII manned space mission carrying three astronauts whose main task was to complete the country's first spacewalk.

The spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan space centre in the north-western province at about 9:10 pm (1310 GMT) on board a Long March-2F carrier rocket.

The scheduled three-day Shenzhou VII mission includes China's first spacewalk on Friday, which is expected to last about 40 minutes and be carried out by astronaut Zhai Zhigang.

Brussels - A key European Parliament committee on Thursday gave its backing to strong European Union limits on the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) new cars should emit in a dramatic turnaround from the expected result.

At a stormy meeting, the parliament's environment committee decided that car makers selling their vehicles in the EU should make sure that the average CO2 emissions of the cars they sell should be no more than 120 grams per kilometre (g/km) in 2012.

Penalties for non-compliance should start at 20 euros (29.3 dollars) per car sold and per g/km over the limit in 2012, and rise to 95 euros per g/km in 2015, they said.

Washington, Sept 25 : Low-cost biological sand (biosand) filters can help provide safe drinking water to people in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries, who are being forced to drink contaminated water due to lack of safer access, suggest experts.

Nearly 1.1 billion people have been drinking contaminated water, with approximately 2.2 million people without safe access dying each year, and most of them are children under 5 years of age.

The biosand filters are capable of dramatically improving the quality of drinking water and has also gained acceptance by the World Health Organization as a viable household water treatment technology,

Satyam Computer Services Limited, spread over an area of 475,000 sq ft, at Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjewadi, Pune, promises to provide employment to some 4,750 people. Speaking on the occasion Virendra Aggarwal, Head of Satyam's APAC and MIEA regions said "It is an indication that Pune is becoming India's next IT Hub”. Satyam with 30 development Centers in India and 19 in other parts of the world, aims at helping the global automotive companies and financial services institutions to enhance their customer care via enterprise application and business intelligence optimization projects.