New Delhi, Sept 2 : In order to meet the deadline of producing Euro-III and Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel from April 2010, the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest refiner, is investing over Rs 12,000 crore to upgrade its seven refineries.

IOC Director (Refineries) B. N. Bankapur said, "All our refineries are on schedule to meet the Euro-III and Euro-IV deadline."

Petrol and diesel meeting the stringent Euro-IV specifications is to be supplied in seven metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad from April 1, 2010 and for the rest of the country Euro-III grade fuel is to be supplied from that date.

On the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, Big 92.7 FM has made announcement about the special promotional plans and interactive initiatives across all its Indian stations.

While Big FM RJ’s will visit different pandals across the city in order to give live updates on the festival, the station has aligned interactive plans such as on-air talk shows, contests, call-ins and on-ground events surrounding Ganesh Chaturthi across all its stations.

Moreover, the FM station is organizing a talent hunt known as ‘Comedy Ganesha’ in Bangalore.

Tokyo - Japanese automaker Hino Motors Ltd and major trading company Marubeni Corp announced a joint venture Tuesday to sell vehicles in India.

With the intention to strengthen its dynamite series, technology giant LG has rolled out a new handset named ‘KP199’ in the Indian market.

The newly launched phone offers users an outstanding battery life of up to 11 hours on talk time mode and standby time of up to 30 days through a high-powered 1350mAh battery.

The leading mobile manufacturer Motorola Inc has released its new camera phone MOTOZINE ZN5 in the Indian market.

The newly launched phone supports Kodak’s MOTOZINE camera and is supported by 23Megapixel camera with auto-focus and a Xenon flash.

The new MOTOZINE ZN5 is expected to give stiff competition to Cyber-Shot series of Sony Ericsson. It offers high quality photography with modern technology.

New Delhi, Sep 1 : Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today directed telecom operators to waive off the processing charge on the top-up cards of recharges, resulting in full talk time.

Prepaid mobile subscribers will henceforth, have to pay just an administrative fee not exceeding Rs. two per recharge and other applicable taxes, TRAI said.

TRAI said that it has come to its notice that telecoms are deducting a fixed amount even for recharges exclusively meant for providing talk time to subscribers who already have validity.