Chennai: Ford India has launched production of diesel engines at its new, state-of the-art engine assembly plant at Maramalai Nagar, Chennai, for use in the popular midsize Ford Fiesta and Ford Fusion product lines. The new US$26 million assembly plant officially went online in late April, and has an annual capacity of 60,000 units.

The 10,000sqm assembly plant includes a cylinder block machining line capable of producing 50,000 diesel and 10,000 petrol engine blocks. The first engines being produced are the 1.4-litre turbodiesel Duratorq engines.

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Chennai-based software training and consulting company, NACE Solutions, is set to sign an agreement with the Anna University’s AU-KBC research centre to offer a joint certification programme in its flagship course – LAMP (Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP).

The AU-KBC, located on the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) campus of Anna University, is funded by the National Resource Centre for Free Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) to promote the free open source software movement in the country.

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CHENNAI: Engineer Estates (Madras) Private Limited, a Chennai based realty development company, announced the launch of their affordable luxury villa project called ‘Park City.’

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