Research in Motion, RIM, the Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry phones on Monday have decided to consider complying with the Indian governments demands and consider setting up a server in India that would help the Indian security agencies keep a track on the encrypted data.

By complying to do this, the Home Ministry has confirmed a two month extension of the deadline issued to the company.  More than one million subscribers are currently using the services of BlackBerry in India and most of them being corporate.  This is an interim arrangement that has been decided upon after the meeting held yesterday between RIM and officials from the telecom and home ministries.

The home Ministry has confirmed ‘It was decided that the department of telecommunications would study the feasibility of all such services being provided through a server located only in India’.

The meeting held yesterday was presided by G K Pillai, the home Secretary and attended by the National Technical Research Organization, Special Secretary (Internal Security) U.K Bansal, the Intelligence Bureau and officials from the telecom department.

The earlier deadline issued to RIM was 31st August 2010. RIM had to offer India access to its enterprise solutions and messenger that routed the encrypted data through the company owned services, which was making it impossible for Indian security agencies to track.

The access to their system was requested by the Indian government due to security concerns. There were concerns that this encrypted facility of BlackBerry could be misused by the terrorists and other groups.  The statement also added, “RIM has made certain proposals for lawful access by law enforcement agencies and these would be operationalized immediately.”

The Canadian phone manufacturer Research In Motion would have to work hand in hand with the Indian telecom department and offer an realistic solutions that would allow the security agencies to have access to their enterprise and their messaging solutions, as per the statement issued by the home Ministry.

The home Ministry officials have stressed on the fact that law enforcement agencies should at any point of time have access to any communication that happens through the telecom networks. They have also started that this rule will have to mandatorily be followed by the third parties and all telecom companies too.

The statement also added, “Ministry of home affairs will review the situation within 60 days, by which time the department of telecommunication is expected to submit its report. The feasibility of the solution offered would be assessed thereafter.”

The world’s largest car manufacturer, Toyota is all set to double its production with an investment of $680 million on a plant in Bangalore. This plant is set to be operational by the end of this year. Toyota Motor President for Asia-Pacific, Mr. Mitsuhiro Sonoda stated “The new plant will have an annual production capacity of 70,000 units. It will double our production capacity in India”. The company is planning to release small car and hybrid models in India. There are plans to launch Etios in both hatchback and Sedan versions in India by the year end. Toyota has a JV with Kirloskar Group for their operations in India. The Japanese auto maker plans to launch several cars specifically manufactured for the Indian market.

Mr. Toshiaki Ozawa, the Managing Coordinator of Toyota Kirloskar Motor has said “We are working on India specific models because Indian market is different… It is more price sensitive,” said Mr. Ozawa. He also added that a number of their new models would be priced approximately around Rs. 10 lakhs.  Currently Innova, Fortuner and Corolla Altis are the bands that Toyota retails in India. These models are manufactured in its plant in Bangalore. Two other models are available in India but are imported from Japan and sold in India. They are Camry and Prado.

However the company has been finding it very tough to sell imported sedans and SUV’s in India due to the high duties.

Up to 60 per cent import duties is charged on imports of some models of cars into India. Mr. Toshiaki Ozawa also said “Toyota last year sold more than 55,000 cars in India” and he also said that this year the company was expecting a huge rise in the sales numbers in India.

The total production capacity of Toyota is projected to increase to 140,000 cars in 2011. Currently the existing facility in Bangalore for the Japanese auto major delivers 70,000 cars per year. The Managing Coordinator also said that as the demand in India for automobiles is likely to remain strong, which was riding on the economic growth on the country and the encouraging interest rates, Toyota was confident of selling all the cars they manufacture.

With the April-July quarter already showing an increase of 35 per cent of car sales with 592,405 units being sold, sales likely to increase by almost 30 per cent by this year end. SIAM, society of Indian automobile Manufacturers has already projected that the annual sales of cars would reach an astounding 3 million by 2015. July witnessed a record jump of 38 per cent in the passenger car sales segment with the numbers rising to 158,764 units.

Security officials and top Indian telecommunication officials will meet on Monday. The agenda of the meeting would be to discuss the security disagreement with the manufacturers of BlackBerry handsets that would affect the phone service in India as it would be banned in India this week.

The meeting was to be held by Mr. G.K. Pillai who is home ministry’s top official and some of his colleagues from the telecom ministry and the several security experts w and concur on the country’s next step in the wake of this event.

The manufacturer, Research in Motion, had been warned earlier by the Government of India that email and instant messaging services that were sent on BlackBerry smart phones would be blocked if the company did not come up with a technique by which the security agencies in India could decode the encrypted messages sent over the Smartphone. The dead line offered to the company by the government was till August 31.

As India has been facing a lot of security issues like insurgences, militant threats, and threats from the terror groups based in its neighboring country Pakistan, there have been concerns raises that these encrypted services could be used by militants if not monitored.

However, as the manufacturers of BlackBerry, RIM, Research in Motion, a Canadian based firm, has been working towards meeting the demands of the Indian governments, there were certain indications that the dead line might be pushed beyond the cutoff date of August 31. Commenting on this issue, an unnamed official from the Indian government said, “Everything is possible. If they say we have a solution and ask for time, then we will see “.

Several other security conscious countries like Russia and china have known to be satisfied with the level of access that their intelligence agencies have to the communications that take place through the BlackBerry device says a report from the analysts.

A deal with India is most crucial for RIM, it they want to be a part of one of the fastest growing cell phone markets in the World, especially when the company closed their shares in New York on Friday at 45.99 dollars which was at a 52 week low.

Currently there are close to 1.1 million BlackBerry users in India who would be affected by the ban. However RIM is also facing a possibility of ban in UAE and is in negotiations with the Saudi Arabian officials on this matter.

Wynncom, a relatively unknown Indian mobile handset manufacturer has launched a new model with Hindi alphabet keypad, specifically aimed at Hindi-speaking mobile users. Though the mobile phone market is deluged with new models, offering the latest in technology by well-known international mobile handset manufacturers such as Apple, Sony, Nokia and Samsung, the little-known Wynncom stole a march over them by introducing a handset that can make life easier for those in Hindi-belt, who are not fluent in English.

“In smaller cities, where English language is a big hurdle for communicating your thoughts while texting a SMS, this handset will act as an apt medium for the people to express themselves in Hindi in a better way,” said Arvind Vohra, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Wynn Telecom.

The model named Y45 is a dual-SIM handset and is equipped with a 2.2-inch (5.6cm) 262 TFT color screen, 1.3 MP camera, Bluetooth with A2DP connectivity, email facility, PC Sync, video recording and expandable memory up to 8GB. Another attraction is that the mobile phone supports social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Nimbuzz, Opera Mini and MSN.

Y45 has an in-built soft key for 160by2, a free SMS service provider. This feature allows users to send free SMSs across India, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines.

The latest offering from Wynncom is a blessing for mobile users in smaller towns and rural areas in the Hindi-speaking regions of India. This enables easier communication via SMS without losing the heart and soul of the language in translation.

Wynncom’s Y45 is priced at Rs 3,395 in India.