Aditya Birla Group and Holcim are rapidly increasing capacity in a bid to become the largest player in India's cement industry.
Market-men expect these offers will compete head to head for investors' fund of over Rs 24,000 crore next month.
Ahmedabadbased Suzlon Energy has tied up funds for its Euro1.2 billion (Rs 6,543 crore) bid for the German power company, REpower, even before the last date for raising bid by the rival French giant Areva expires on Thursday.
An acquisition by Tata AutoComp may cost $1.5-2 bn.
The department of telecommunications has referred the issue of using multiple technologies under a single unified access services licence to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Initial fears of Internet access charges rising by 6-12 per cent following the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommendations to impose an annual licence fee for Internet Service Providers appear to be unfounded.
The telecom dream that India is living is not without blemish.
"We have written to all the companies in which we have nominee-directors, asking them not to give Esops," said LIC managing director D K Mehrotra. He said there were more than 100 companies in which LIC had nominee-directors.
The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch's News Corporation, is in talks with Maran's Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country.
This will be over and above a Rs 3,655-crore domestic rights issue and a Rs 4,350 crore convertible preference share issue the company announced last month.
At a session with analysts last Monday, RComm chairman Anil Ambani said the Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) investments would be used for network expansion.
IBM chairman, president & chief executive officer Samuel J Palmisano is scheduled to meet Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani
The domestic business intelligence sector is fast outgrowing its infancy, thanks to an increase in mergers and acquisitions.
GTL has placed non-binding offers on five companies in the US and Europe and lined up acquisitions worth Rs 1,100 crore (Rs 11 billion) in the next two quarters.
Wipro is close to setting up an IT park in Nagpur and is believed to have acquired 117 acres of land at the new special economic zone in the city.
Agarwal's is a classic story of a small trader becoming metal king. The secret, he says, lies in believing in himself and in the country's potential.
French electrical major Schneider Electricals SA is in advanced stages of negotiations with the Mumbai-based Shah family to acquire Anchor Electricals, the country's leading electrical equipment maker.
They prefer foreign markets owing to comparatively lower margins than Indian exchanges.
Reliance Communications will be investing around Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) to set up and install an additional 15,000 base transceiver stations in the country.
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