The Hubble Space Telescope has just offered a better view of our Milky Way Galaxy's most massive stars. The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies 7,500 light years from Earth.

The recent terror attacks in Mumbai cast its shadow on the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2008 in Panaji.

The IFFI observed a moment of silence in the memory of those who died in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.

“Wherever possible, I will personally go to the theatres to observe one-minute silence,” stated Festival Director S M Khan.

The state police have beefed up the security of hotels around the IFFI venue.

DLF Assets (DAL), promoted by K P Singh will raise USD 450 million from private equity investors by December for part payment to another promoter group firm DLF Ltd. DLF Assets Ltd has been established to acquire commercial projects of DLF, the country's largest realty firm.

Bharti Teletech, one of India's top makers and distributors of telecom & allied products, announced that it has pocketed a major order from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), India's major telecom operator, to make fixed line phones.

Under the deal valued at over Rs 350 million, BSNL will make and supply more than 9 lakh CLIP phones for BSNL within the next 5 months.

The pact further strengthens Bharti Teletech’s association with BSNL.

Bangalore-based BPO Easiprocess is ready to set up its new office in Pune, which can house 500 employees in one shift.

The expansion of the new office is in view of potential third party clients that Easiprocess is confident of securing shortly.

Presently, Easiprocess has two offices in Bangalore - one that is functional and accommodates 100 workers and another that serves as a Disaster Recovery site.

Sparsh BPO Services, an arm of Intelenet Global Services, has announced that it has kicked off its new delivery centre in Puducherry.

The inauguration of new delivery centre is a part of Sparsh plans to offer customer support services for mobile service operator Aircel in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

According to the sources, the delivery centre would serve Aircel's prepaid and postpaid customers in Tamil Nadu circle.

The conglomerate also claimed that with an initial headcount of 1600, the centre is a major BPO employer in puducherry.