Valecha Engineering announced that the company has pocketed two orders worth Rs 160 crore for construction-related work in Delhi and Mumbai.

The source close to the company said that first contract of Rs 110 crore has been bagged for a bridge project in Delhi.

Further, the company secured another project worth Rs 50 crore to execute the sky-walk projects in Mumbai.

According to reports, the sky-walk is an elevated walk-way connecting the railway station and points where there are high concentrations of pedestrians.

Washington, Nov 12: New observations from NASA''s Spitzer Space Telescope have indicated that shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets.

The evidence comes in the form of tiny crystals called cristobalite and tridymite, which are known to reside in comets, in volcanic lava flows on Earth, and in some meteorites that land on Earth.

Spitzer detected these crystals, similar in make-up to quartz, around young stars just beginning to form planets.

These crystals require flash heating events, such as shock waves, to form.

Kathmandu  - Nepal's exports of ready-made clothes have suffered considerably because of the financial crisis in the United States, officials said Wednesday.

The United States is Nepal's main buyer for ready-made clothing, importing as much as 85 per cent of Nepal's garment exports.

"The export of ready-made clothing to the United States fell by 47 per cent until October 2008," the Garment Industries Association said. "The fall in exports was aggravated by financial crisis in the United States."

Seoul  - North Korea threatened Wednesday to close its borders with South Korea starting December 1 as it accused Seoul of pursuing a confrontational policy against its neighbour.

North Korea would "strictly restrict and cut off all the overland passages" at the inter-Korean border, said a statement distributed by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

South Korea's military was informed of the decision in a telephone message, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.

Reliance Gas Corporation Ltd (RGC), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has been roped in by the Andhra Pradesh as a majority partner in the Krishna Godavari Gas Network Ltd, (KGGNL) a special purpose vehicle carved out for gas distribution through a pipeline grid.