Many top firms have had to write down their investments, as the value of those have collapsed due to sluggish biz conditions.
CEOs point fingers at rural job guarantee and related govt welfare schemes; say mechanisation an increasingly viable option.
Lack of time was cited as the main reason for Bharti Chairman Sunil Mittal's exit from the Unilever board.
Merchant bankers appointed to explore options on merger or stake sale in Tata Teleservices.
However, foreign investors have completely shunned the infrastructure sector.
Bharti was talking to Standard Chartered Bank and Citibank, among others, to manage the issue.
However, even after finalising the multi-pronged cross-border Rs 11,165-crore deal in November 2012, Diageo's wait for acquiring a decent stake in India's leading whisky maker, United Spirits, seems to be getting longer and longer.
These companies gave annualised returns of 11% on an average in the last five years, while shareholders of family-owned companies saw 5% annualised erosion
Coffee Day Group, which runs businesses from coffee cafes to wealth management to furniture to logistics, is understood to be readying the stage for a possible $100-million fund raise through the private equity route.
These companies may recall loans in extreme cases; loan-to-value ratio stands at 60% but scrap value at 75%.
These trusts hold 66 per cent stake in unlisted Tata Sons, the holding company of the $100-billion Tata group of companies.
The mining major is selling the company to reduce its debt.
Cairn Energy Plc, which has 50 production blocks across the world, holds 10% in Cairn India.
Most have seen decline in cash reserves and deterioration in financial ratios in recent years.
Citigroup's former chief executive officer, Vikram Pandit, might be joining the race to become a co-applicant for a banking licence in India.
An interest rate cut, at a time when demand was not showing any sign of revival, would boost sentiments, especially for interest-rate sensitives like the car and real estate sectors, which had been showing negative growth, a majority of the 15 CEOs polled by Business Standard said.
Tribunal ruling in I-T's favour may open floodgates to claims against other MNCs.
The company, started by three BITS Pilani graduates in 2005, could be planning to aggressively scale up its business to tap the untapped potential that the bus-booking service offers in India.
For the first nine months of the current financial year, net sales rose by close to 37 per cent to Rs 1,470 crore (Rs 14.7 billion( over the previous corresponding period, while operating profit increased by another 37 per cent to Rs 322 crore (Rs 3.22 billion).
Interview with chairman, Vedanta.
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