Polish university to set up Tamil Chair: In a sign of growing interest in the study of Indian culture in European universities, the Jagiellonian University at Krakow in Poland will soon establish a Tamil Chair. This was announced by First Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Warsaw Vikrant Rattan at the third Middle European Student Indology Conference (MESIC 3).

Info buys software unit of Telecom New Zealand: Infosys Technologies its Australasian subsidiary has acquired the software solutions business of Gen-I the ICT arm of Telecom New Zealand.

UAE urges India to lift Somalia Embargo: As the world grapples with the issue of piracy, the United Arab Emirates made a strong pitch for ending the arms embargo on Somalia and nudged India to work towards doing so. However, India believes the arms embargo on Somalia must stay for the time being as the institutions of governance are non-existent there. The United Nations monitoring group on arms embargo on Somalia had earlier said that Arab nations had violated the embargo, which has been in place since 1992. He said that besides lifting the arms embargo, arms training should be given to Somalian police to defeat the pirates. But India maintains that “there should be greater international coordination” in dealing with piracy.  “We shouldn’t forget that there are not many functional institutions of governance in Somalia”, a ministry official said.