Empowered in the Modi government, junior ministers have enough on their plate.
Recently, e-commerce firms have been under the lens for tax violation.
People close to Shanghvi reveal he is known to make surprising moves both inside and outside the pharma industry.
Torrent to buy Ranbaxy's anti-bacterial generic
Each dept could handle a designated area.
FDA allows Teva to launch Nexium generic; Cipla, which supplies formulation, to gain
E-commerce companies typically stick to the gross merchandise value run rate to calculate sales.
The company is in talks with investors and the deal could be closed in a few weeks. At present, it operates in 37 cities in India.
The previous United Progressive Alliance government had permitted up to 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail but the current National Democratic Alliance government is opposed to it.
Unlike India, the US is a free-pricing market.
The latest cash-and-carry or wholesale outlet, for selling products from grocery to apparel and consumer electronics to businesses, offices and organisations, is coming up in Agra by the middle of 2015, it is learnt.
Flipkart has started working on it big day sale around six months ago.
Radio taxi service provider Meru Cabs is planning to put in place the next level of driver verification, one liked to biometric identification tool Aadhaar.
Pranab Mukherjee's book The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years takes the readers through the economic and social unrest of the period leading up to the emergency, rise and fall of leaders, many splits within the Congress, while promising to offer more in the next two volumes of the trilogy, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Meru Cabs, one of the first radio taxi services in the country, is contesting service tax notices sent to it since 2010 in the Bombay High Court.
There are about 600,000 taxis in India, generating combined annual revenue of about Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion).
The joint entity will have a market share of nine per cent in India. Analysts tracking the company said one of the key outcomes of the merger would be to create a single brand entity of Sun and the Ranbaxy brand would eventually dissolve.
A soap bar got delivered instead of a mobile phone to a buyer, defective Diwali lights were couriered to another and fake items were dispatched in yet another case.
At that time, co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal had made a public announcement at a Bengaluru hotel, about a $1-billion fund raising, largest so far in the Indian e-commerce sector. A day later, Amazon issued a statement that it was investing $2 billion in India.
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
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