The Essar group, Jindal Steel and Power, Monnet Ispat, Bhushan Steel and the Avantha group have been asked to close deals by March-end.
The Essar Oil, Rosneft deal also helped Arpwood Capital, boutique investment bank, co-founded by Rajeev Gupta and Raj Kataria, to grab the second spot in the mergers and acquisitions league table.
Sun Pharmaceutical, which is growing its dermatology and ophthalmic specialty business in the US will spend $460 million on R&D.
Indian companies have made acquisitions of $1 billion so far in January
Real estate will prosper, small developers won't.
The National Stock Exchange's proposed IPO to raise Rs 10,000 crore this year is expected to see the largest ever PE exit, of around Rs 5,000 crore.
Cross previous high of $72 billion in 2007 as Indian promoters overcome the selling taboo. Abhineet Kumar reports from Mumbai.
Equity markets in Pakistan and Bangladesh are tiny compared to the market capitalisation of the Indian equity market.
Experts say it will now be tough for the Modi government to catch up with the UPA's economic record owing to the shock induced by the currency demonetisation.
Corporate indebtedness is now twice what it was before the global financial crisis; banks' bad loans ratio is 3.5 times higher.
The Cyrus Mistry camp is confident that independent directors will take their cue from their counterparts in Indian Hotels.
Cyrus Mistry had put in place a strategy that would have pulled most of the Tata group's 'legacy hotspots' out of the financial mess from legacy issues and helped turn around the group's finances.
Small- and mid-size companies where Cyrus was the chairman did better on bourses than large Tata group companies
"After sinking in Rs 6,000-7,000 crore in the Nano till date, what is the result?"
Mistry indeed followed standards of corporate governance so that it should not create any controversies at a later date
Dividend pay-out by the group companies grew at a compounded annual rate of 15.7% under Cyrus, sharply up from 2.5% in the previous three years
There was virtually no incremental equity investment by Tata Sons during Mistry's first two years
The plan was to sell off non-profitable businesses apart from focusing on four verticals: real estate, defence, financial services and retail
Top 100 billionaires see their wealth rise 10%; top 20 account for half of total wealth of top 100.
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