In a late-night encounter, Noida Police gunned down two suspected Uttar Pradesh (UP)-based criminals on Monday. The two have been identified as Vinay Katiar, a wanted criminal from Etah district in UP, and Mukesh.

Police said they began trailing Katiar's white Maruti Esteem after receiving a tip-off. Noida Superintendent of Police (SP) AK Tripathi said, "We had specific information that some criminals were coming to the hosiery complex in phase II in an Esteem car on Monday night. Our patrol team began trailing Katiar after spotting the Esteem roaming suspiciously in the area."

Noida based chemicals and drug maker Jubilant Organosys failed to witness good response to its buy back offer for all its outstanding foreign currency convertible bonds
(FCCBs) worth $241 million. The firm said, in a filing before Bombay Stock Exchange, that it would buy FCCBs worth $3 million due in 2010 with total cash of $2.55 million.

The firm received bids worth $48 million only for buy back shares via FCCB tender offer.

Noida, Jan 25 : Uttar Pradesh

NOIDA (Uttar Pradesh), Jan. 7 : Even as Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development (Indepedent Charge) Renuka Chaudhary came down heavily on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for not doing enough to protect women in the state, t he National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday constituted a two-member committee to probe the gang rape of an MBA student in NOIDA.

The NCW team comprising members Neeva Konwar and Wansuk Syiem today visited NOIDA to inquire into the incident, officials said.

The crime rate in Noida is increasing at a sharp rate. People are kidnapped or killed in broad daylight and crowed places. Recently an MBA student was abducted on Monday night from outside Noida's biggest mall - The Great India Place. Thaen the girl was taken to Gali Chowkhandi village in Sector 71 where she was gang raped and assaulted physically.

The sad fact is that this is the second case of abduction and rape in Noida in the last 48 hours. A Delhi University student was abducted from the Sunday bazaar market in Noida's Sector 58 by three car-borne men on Sunday.

Moser Baer India has informed that its wholly owned photovoltaic (PV) subsidiary has received in full, the agreed capital investment worth Rs 415 crore from a consortium of global investors.