The government on Friday informed the parliament that the country is confronting an acute shortage of psychiatrists as well as mental health experts, and to overcome this problem, it is establishing centres of excellence in mental health.

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Union Health Minister A. Ramadoss over the closure of three public sector undertakings (PSUs) manufacturing vaccines like DPT, measles, polio and BCG.

The three PSUs are Central Research Institute of Himachal Pradesh, Coonoors Pasteur Institute of India and BCG Vaccine Lab in Chennai.

Asus has rolled out its new Eee PC 1002HA netbook in the Indian market.

Targeting at professional travelers, the newly launched netbook weighs just 1.2kg (with battery), and has dimensions of 264mm (W) x 181mm (B) x 27.6mm (H).

The compact and lightweight Eee PC 1002HA netbook works on Super Hybrid Engine (SHE), which reduces the power usage by 15 percent. It has 160 GB of hard disk drive with the advanced 10GB ASUS Eee online storage facilities.

The black-colored netbook comes with a 10 inch LED backlight display with a resolution of 1024×600.

Los Angeles  - All the leading actors of Slumdog Millionaire - including the two impoverished children who had a central role in the movie - will attend the Oscars Sunday and take the stage to accept the award if the movie wins the best picture prize, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

The decision was taken at the last minute after the film's producers and director Danny Boyle had earlier worried that taking the kids to the Hollywood glitter-fest might further complicate the lives of the two children cast from Mumbai's slums.

Hyderabad-based Tanla Solutions on Friday revealed its plan to form a 50:50 joint venture with Spanish mobile value-added services provider Zed Worldwide to develop and sell mobile content.

The company quoted in a statement that the proposed JV will also provide mobile advertising and related services to telecom operators in India.

The latest move entails an initial investment worth Rs 63 crore in the paid up capital, out of which both partners would contribute Rs 31.5 crore each.

Reliance Globalcom, the international arm of telecom service provider Reliance Communications, has secured a multi-year contract from British optical retailer Specsavers for its enterprise solution.

Under the arrangement, Reliance Globalcom will supply its enterprise solution for connecting 1,150 worldwide retail outlets of the retailer. The deal covers 10 countries across Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

However, the financial details of the deal have not been disclosed by the company.