The alternative fuel fever has caught up with Chennai-based TVS Motor Company, synonymous with 'TVS Scooty'. Having entered the electric scooter segment, the company is exploring LPG and CNG two wheelers.
Global tea prices are likely to maintain their upward trend this year because of tight supply in the wake of a projected 10 per cent decrease in production in Kenya, according to the latest findings by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations Organisation.
Dalmia Cement will launch the Dalmia Institute of Construction at Trichy to develop construction skills among rural youth will unveil.
Property and Building Corporation Limited (PBC) and Electra Real Estate Limited, part of two leading Israeli business conglomerates, on Wednesday announced their plans to build Rs 4,000-crore real estate projects in three southern cities of Hyderabad, Chennai and Mysore through a newly-incorporated Indian joint venture company, PBEL Property Development (India) Private Limited.
Hyderabad-based the Ocean Park Group is investing Rs 25 crore in its projects coming up at Visakhapatnam.
Tension mounted in Dhinkia village in the Posco project site near Paradip in Orissa as the survey teams, conducting a socio-economic survey of the project site, came eyeball to eyeball with the villagers of Dhinkia, who vehemently oppose the project.
Tanla Mobile Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of wireless messaging solution provider Tanla Solutions Limited, has published a marketing and advertising guide in the UK.
Kingfisher Airlines will operate international flights between Bangalore and San Francisco, Bangalore-New York and Mumbai-London flights from August this year.
Elevator News Network (ENN), in association with Helius Inc (Canada), is looking at a turnover of Rs 100 crore in India on the back of growth in out-of-home media, real estate and shopping malls in the country.
The Coffee Board plans to include the new variety (Chandragiri) developed by the Central Coffee Research Institute (CCRI), Chikmagalur, in the plantation rejuvenation scheme to be taken up under the 11th Five Year Plan.
ITC Limited is setting up a 25,000-tonne per annum capacity facility at a cost of Rs 35 crore at its Bollaram unit in Hyderabad for production of elemental chlorine-free (ECF) paperboards to be used for manufacture of paper cups.
With as many as seven out of the 26 ministers in his previous government failing to make it to the Assembly this time, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is likely to induct some fresh faces into his new cabinet, which sources say could be in place after January 14 after the Kamurta (an inauspicious period) is over.
The Congress has conveyed to Rane that Sushil Kumar Shinde is likely to be made chief minister if there is a change of leadership.
Spanco Telesystems and Solutions is poised to invest over Rs 400 crore in its Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) operations, over two years.
Information technology (IT) and textiles could emerge as the possible areas of cooperation between West Bengal and the Hubei province in China.
Multiplex chain operator PVR is planning to invest up to Rs 400 crore over the next three years to set up 250 screens across the country. The expansion would be funded through a mixture of debt, equity and internal accruals.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its real export growth forecast for India for 2008 to 13.2 per cent from its April forecast of 16.3 per cent.
IT services and product solutions provider Quintegra Solutions will acquire US-based technology consulting company Pingho Associates Corporation (PAC) for a consideration of Rs 198 crore ($49 million).
IT services major Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is strengthening its capabilities in the life sciences segment by acquiring New Jersey-based marketRx, provider of analytics and software services to global life sciences companies, for $135 million.
South Korean steel major Posco will start construction of its 12 million tonne, Rs 51,000-crore mega steel project near Paradip in Orissa on April 1, 2008.