Becoming India's largest contract manufacturer of colour TVs isn't enough for Dixon Technologies. It now wants to revive the Weston brand.
The Essel Group website calls him a "karmyogi", defined as someone who believes in action rather than worry about its consequences.
As if there weren't enough, a spate of new television channels will launch this year against all rational thinking.
Armed with funds, the news broadcaster will soon make its debut in the entertainment and lifestyle genres.
My biggest contribution was that I brought small town India into the cricketing landscape of the country, says Kapil Dev.
With the Cricket World Cup on the anvil, former cricketers are in business. And how.
Weston, the largest-selling colour TV brand in the mid-1980s, is making a comeback with a 21-inch flat-screen colour TV priced at Rs 5,590, roughly 40 per cent cheaper than the average market price.
Blackstone, one of the world's largest private equity funds, is negotiating with the NDTV group for a stake in NDTV Networks, a new company, as part of an investment consortium.
Closely following a top management churn, Star India's top three shows - part of the famed "K" serials - have seen their television rating points plunge 20 to 30 per cent.
When Ernst & Young got the mandate from Vodafone late last week to carry out a due diligence on Hutchison-Essar Ltd, it was another feather in the cap for Rajiv Memani.
It's raining written words in India as the industry rides a boom. More newspapers, magazines... and still more launches ahead.
In Tamil Nadu, Moser Baer will sell its DVDs and VCDs through 7,000 retail outlets.
In a surprise move, Star Network has appointed NDTV Media, the advertising sales company of NDTV, to sell advertising space on its online venture Indya.com for the Cricket World Cup event.
Airbus executive vice-president clears the air on the company's India operations and the rivalry with Boeing.
Jagran Prakshan Limited, publisher of Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, has rolled out its second newspaper brand, I-next, in Kanpur and Lucknow.
Most top executives of film production companies said that they would not like to sell rights of their films cheap.
In order to acquire scale, a host of news and current affairs broadcasters are looking at starting even entertainment channels.
The editor used a novel strategy to completely reinvent it, but what's ironic is that what began as a search for funds to expand may now result in a change in ownership.
Star Plus is where it is today, thanks to his creative genius, say Nair's friends and foes alike.
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