Vadodara-headquartered Jyoti Limited has secured an order worth Rs 541 crore from Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Limited (KNNL) to supply 28 high-end metallic volute water pumps.

The company claims that the latest deal is one of the single largest electromechanical orders ever bagged by an Indian company. 

According to sources, the pumping stations will cater to farmers in northern and eastern Karnataka with a catchment area of about 1,07,000 hectares.

Reliance Big Entertainment arm BIGFlix.com, India's largest Video on Demand and DVD Rental service, has entered into partnership with BookMyShow.com, India’s premier Entertainment ticketing website, to offer movie rental services at your doorstep. 

Under the arrangement, all bookmyshow.com users will offer a free BIGFlix.com membership, which will be valid for a period 14 days. The customer will be able to rent and watch unlimited movies of his choice from a catalogue of around 20,000 BIGFlix.com titles through the entire period of 14 days. 

Doha - Experts expressed their concern Thursday in Qatar over the increasing percentage of unemployed in the Gulf states.

Experts, who attended a meeting in Doha entitled Unemployment in the GCC Countries: Towards a Strategy to Reduce the Effects said that unemployment had reached 15 per cent in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

They expected the number to rise in the coming years, despite the fact that studies say the unemployment rate is still small compared to other countries.

Cairo - Israel has deployed about 3,000 dogs on the Egyptian-Israeli border, witnesses said on Thursday.

The dogs were deployed in the centre of the Sinai peninsula to protect the advanced early warning radar system Israel recently received from the US.

The dogs are also intended to prevent Africans trying to migrate into Israel to find jobs.

Bogota - Colombia was experiencing a curious controversy Thursday, after a photograph of US presidential candidate Barack Obama was printed on the tickets of a lottery with a jackpot of some 253,000 dollars.

The photograph of the US Democratic Party candidate was used by the lottery in the central Colombian province of Meta as a "tribute" to blacks, according to lottery manager Magdalena Gonzalez.