NTPC puts in place ambitious expansion plan

At least 34 coal-based thermal power companies have offered to sell their projects to NTPC, the country's main power creator. The Maharatna company, aiming to add 14,000 MW ability by 2017, had asked companies through announcement to offer their trapped projects for assessment.
Informing the Rajya Sabha in this look upon, Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said NTPC had sought appearance of attention (EOI) from state power boards, power age group companies, sovereign power producers, among others, for contribution their coal-based thermal power projects for probable attainment.
"Against this EOI, 34 proposals have been conventional," Goyal avowed.
The state-owned power age group firm is expectant of finalising these proposals by the year-end. "It will appraise the superiority of gear of these projects, the level of clearances they have achieved, coal ease of use and sourcing the fuel in case of non-ease of use before trade these thermal power stations," said Goyal. State owned NTPC is also supposedly in talks with confidential power companies like L& T and Shapoorji Pallonji Group with a view to taking over their trapped plants.
NTPC is at present constructing a 2,640 MW power plant in Barethi in Chhattarpur district of Madhya Pradesh at a cost of about Rs 18,000 crore.
With its speculation plans of over Rs 1.5 lakh crore for the 12th Plan era (2012-17), NTPC remains crucial to the government's effort to speed up public sector venture to boost the wealth. NTPC has an installed capacity of 43,019 MW through its 17 coal-based, seven gas-based, seven solar renewable and seven joint venture power stations causal 28 per cent of the country's power conditions.
NTPC Chairman & Managing Director Arup Roy Choudhury said the company has plans to become a 1,28,000 MW company in terms of installed capacity, with 28 per cent coming from non-fossil fuel sources such as renewable, hydro and nuclear.

Five Investing Tips From Warren Buffett

What does Warren Buffett's message to stockholders mean for you and your money?

Every year Mr. Buffett, the world's third-richest man and arguably the most successful stock-market investor in history, writes a letter to stockholders in his investment company Berkshire Hathaway. BRKB -0.38% The latest came out this weekend. There are usually some nuggets for all those who haven't invested in Berkshire, and this year's letter was no exception. Here are five:

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Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, before being presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in February. Bloomberg News

1. Watch out for stock-market valuations.

Mr. Buffett's company is now sitting on a cash hoard of $38 billion. "That's among the highest levels it's ever been," says Stifel Nicolas analyst Meyer Shields. While Mr. Buffett says he is looking for a big acquisition, and has his "elephant gun loaded," the high cash pile also suggests he's having a challenge finding really good deals. If Mr. Buffett is cautious, investors might want to take note: It's another sign that many valuations on the stock market may be looking a little stretched.

Software Case Tools Overview

CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering. It means, development and maintenance of software projects with help of various automated software tools.

CASE Tools

CASE tools are set of software application programs, which are used to automate SDLC activities. CASE tools are used by software project managers, analysts and engineers to develop software system.
There are number of CASE tools available to simplify various stages of Software Development Life Cycle such as Analysis tools, Design tools, Project management tools, Database Management tools, Documentation tools are to name a few.
Use of CASE tools accelerates the development of project to produce desired result and helps to uncover flaws before moving ahead with next stage in software development.

Components of CASE Tools

CASE tools can be broadly divided into the following parts based on their use at a particular SDLC stage:

• Central Repository - CASE tools require a central repository, which can serve as a source of common, integrated and consistent information. Central repository is a central place of storage where product specifications, requirement documents, related reports and diagrams, other useful information regarding management is stored. Central repository also serves as data dictionary.
  
• Upper Case Tools - Upper CASE tools are used in planning, analysis and design stages of SDLC.
• Lower Case Tools - Lower CASE tools are used in implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Integrated Case Tools - Integrated CASE tools are helpful in all the stages of SDLC, from Requirement gathering to Testing and documentation.
  

Java - Objects and Classes

Java is an Object-Oriented Language. As a language that has the Object Oriented feature, Java supports the following fundamental concepts:

• Polymorphism
• Inheritance
• Encapsulation
• Abstraction
• Classes
• Objects
• Instance
• Method
• Message Parsing

In this chapter, we will look into the concepts Classes and Objects.

• Object - Objects have states and behaviors. Example: A dog has states - color, name, breed as well as behaviors -wagging, barking, eating. An object is an instance of a class.
• Class - A class can be defined as a template/blue print that describes the behaviors/states that object of its type support.

Objects in Java:

Let us now look deep into what are objects. If we consider the real-world we can find many objects around us, Cars, Dogs, Humans, etc. All these objects have a state and behavior.
If we consider a dog, then its state is - name, breed, color, and the behavior is - barking, wagging, running
If you compare the software object with a real world object, they have very similar characteristics.
Software objects also have a state and behavior. A software object's state is stored in fields and behavior is shown via methods.
So in software development, methods operate on the internal state of an object and the object-to-object communication is done via methods.

Classes in Java:

A class is a blue print from which individual objects are created.
A sample of a class is given below:

public class Dog{
   String breed;
   int age;
   String color;

   void barking(){
   }
   
   void hungry(){
   }
   
   void sleeping(){
   }
}

A class can contain any of the following variable types.

Glenmark Pharma up 3% on final ANDA nod for skin drug

Shares of Glen mark Parma surged 3.3 percent intraday Tuesday on receiving USFDA sanction for skin treatment by its US additional. "Glen mark Generics Inc, USA, the subsidiary of Glen mark Generics, has been settled final approval from the United States Food and Drug management (US FDA) for its condensed new drug application (ANDA) for Fluocinonide Cream USP 0.1 percent, the broad version of Vanes Cream by Medicos," says the company in its filing.

Fluocinonide Cream is indicated for the relief of the inflammatory and cleanliness manifestations of corticosteroid responsive dermatomes. "VANOS unguent is a instruction corticosteroid (steroid hormone) used on the skin (topical) to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older with confident skin conditions that cause red, flaky, and itchy skin," says Medicis. According to IMS Health sales data for the 12 month stage finish March 2014, Fluocinonide Cream garnered yearly sales of approximately USD 103 million. Glenmark’s current portfolio consists of 93 products authorised for allotment in the US marketplace and 71 ANDA’s pending approval with the US FDA. "In adding up to these internal filings, Glenmark Generics Inc continues to identify and explore external development partnerships to supplement and speed up the growth of the accessible pipeline and selection," it adds. At 10:36 hours IST, the stock was quoting at Rs 551.75, up 2.34 percent on the BSE.

City Union Bank gains 2% on strong response to share sale

Shares of  City Union Bank rose 2 percent on burly answer to its share sale to hoist up to Rs 350 corer.
City Union Bank on Monday sunset launched a share sale for institutional investors to lift up Rs 250-350 crore, phrase sheet showed.
Floor price for the share sale had been permanent at Rs 75.05 a share, the lender said in a report
The bank's share sale has been oversubscribed by almost 2.5 times, people occupied in the method said.
At 10:33 hrs City Union Bank was quoting at Rs 75.00, up Rs 0.65, or 0.87 percent on the BSE.

Railways' earnings up by over 9% in April-June

Indian Railways has registered an over 9 percent augment in its returns in the April-June divide into four parts this year as compared to the equivalent age last year. The Railways earned Rs.36,674.17 center through April-June 2014 as compared to Rs.33,499.53 crore through the same epoch last year, registering an augment of 9.48 percent, according to railway ministry data. The total wages from goods or shipment during April-June stage was Rs.24,850.37 crore compared to Rs.23,214.60 crore through the corresponding period last year, an enlarge of 7.05 percent, it said. Total earnings from passengers during the first quarter of this fiscal was Rs.10,153.68 crore compared to Rs.8,724.65 crore during the same period last year, registering an amplify of 16.38 percent. The earnings from other instruction amounted to Rs.1,011.35 crore during this period as against Rs.972.58 crore in the parallel period last year, registering an increase of 3.99 percent . The total number of passengers booked during this period was 2103.35 million compared to 1959.73 million through the same phase last year, which was an raise of 7.33 percent, the data said.