Thursday, February 18, 2010

Olympics tops 'American Idol' in ratings


(AP)
NEW YORK — Shani Davis, Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White are the true American Idols.
In a startling turnaround from the night before, the Olympics clobbered Fox's "American Idol" in the ratings Wednesday night. The Nielsen Co. said that during the one hour the two shows competed against one another, the Olympics were seen by 30.1 million people while 18.4 million watched "American Idol."
It was the first time in six years that anything has beaten the nation's most popular program head to head in the ratings.
Davis, Vonn and White were all heavily promoted American contenders who won gold medals Wednesday.
On Tuesday, "Idol" beat the Olympics by nearly 4 million viewers.

Elder Pharma’s Uttarakhand facility on stream
Mumbai-based Elder Pharmaceuticals has commenced commercial operations at its new U.S. FDA compliant manufacturing facility at Langa Road in Dehradun (Uttarakhand), which is an excise benefit zone.

The company plans to move manufacturing of all syrup-based products to this Rs.150-crore facility. These products are now either being manufactured or being outsourced.

Production lines

The facility has production lines for liquid orals, sterile injectables, cephalosporin block for tablets as well as dry powder injectables.