WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), the largest public broadcasting station in Germany, visited Palnar Transmedia in Trivandrum during the third week of January 2007 to produce a feature on “India – The Emerging Giant in Global Economy”. Palnar will be featured in this program as a successful, medium-sized IT Company from India, that serves particularly to the German-speaking Clients in Europe. The program will be broadcast in September 2007.

The New Year also brought some new clients for Palnar. Worth mentioning among our new clients is the German Spinning Mills, WAGENFELDER SPINNEREIEN GmbH, located in North Germany. Palnar will be starting the new project for this Client by the beginning of February 2007. The concerned project leader, Rajesh Chandran, as well as the Project Manager, Harish Kumar, will be visiting the client soon, in order to kick start the projects.

The renowned German Management Group, M/s Axel Schroeder & Partner GmbH, has inivited Palnar’s Managing Director, Syed Ibrahim, to present a lecture on the Indian IT Scenario at the Outsourcing Seminars being held on 26th April and 10th May 2007 in Germany. This is the second time Axel Schroeder & Partner is including Palnar in their IT Summits. Palnar is very proud to be associated with these prestigeous IT Seminars. More information under www.asup.de

PALNAR has recently entered into an “academic” cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to provide internships to German IT students. The first two students, from the Technical University in Furtwangen, will be joining Palnar by the end of February 2007 for a 20-week-Program. This program will offer the German IT students the possibility to work in live offshore projects together with the Indian programmers and get to know the various aspects of Offshoring, Indian work culture, lifestyle etc. Every year Palnar plans to train some 10 IT Students from the German speaking countries.