After difficult year, IT braces for US downturn (Live mint.com 7th Jan 2008)After weathering a tough 2007, India’s flagship IT companies face the spectre of the US economic slowing and squeezing profits as they start unveiling earnings this week, analysts saySoftware firms such as Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Infosys Technologies Ltd and Wipro Ltd were last year roiled by the rupee’s steepest appreciation against the dollar in three decades, surging wages and real estate values and the end of a tax holiday. More
Jyoti Structures on Tuesday said it has bagged two orders worth Rs 253 crore from Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd and Eskom Enterprises (Pty) Ltd for construction of transmission lines. The company has bagged Rs 160-crore order from Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd for construction of transmission lines and sub-stations. Besides, the company's joint venture company Jyoti Structures Africa (Pty) Ltd has bagged a contract for Eskom Enterprises (Pty) Ltd, the electricity utility of South Africa for construction of transmission line. The scope of the order from Uganda Electricity Transmission Company includes supply and erection of Bujagali Interconnection Project, the manufacturer of transmission line towers informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. The contract valued at around $39.64 million (Rs 160 crore) is to be executed in 24 months, the company said, adding the company would construct 220 kV and 132 kV transmission lines and substations.
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