Entertainment content (movie and music) will be 10-15 per cent more expensive, following the proposals of the Finance Bill 2010.
At the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), where post-graduate programme (PGP) placement starts on March 4, a sense of anticipation and optimism is in the air.
Maruti Suzuki Chairman R C Bhargava admitted the company had "slipped up" by not informing the press on the recall of 100,000 A-Star vehicles, which began last December, even as the market gave a thumbs up to the car maker with shares going up 2.38 per cent to close at Rs 1,368.65.
Institutes are seeing many first-time recruiters for lateral placements. Not only are they expecting more offers, but higher salaries, too.
Indian pharmaceutical companies, which are increasingly choosing to settle patent litigation with global drug majors in the US, would have to be more cautious now.
Education and stationery products can make big money indeed. Ask FMCG major ITC, which is targeting Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) revenues from these products in three to five years, from Rs 280 crore (Rs 2.8 billion) now.
Flat steel producers -- SAIL, Tata Steel, Essar, Bhushan Steel and JSW -- have increased prices up to Rs 2,000 a tonne on the back of rising demand.
The most convincing signs of revival are visible in historically retail-oriented cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Pune, with the action beginning to perk up in other cities as well.
Levi Strauss, which has just completed 15 years in the country is on a high, cornering 40 per cent share in the Rs 2,000-crore (Rs 20 billion) branded denim market in India.
The premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are gearing up to complete the implemention of the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and other backward classes (OBC) quota requirement for faculty positions from next year.
We are also trying to bring in modern processes and technologies in the area of supply chain, logistics and cold chain that should ultimately benefit the entire retail ecosystem through better quality, and more choice at better prices, says Bharti.
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The IIMs reason that foreign tie-ups are important given the increasing demand for student and faculty exchange programmes and joint programmes in research and training.
Sales grew only 5-10% last year on weak consumer sentiments
The recent controversy over faculty pay at the IITs and IIMs suggests that they need to radically reorient themselves as academic institutions
The season accounts for close to 25 per cent of overall revenues and volumes.
Even as faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology began their hunger strike on Thursday, the All India IIT Faculty Federation has prepared a letter to be sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Department.
Mobile devices are now enabling people to network on the move. Users are logging on to popular social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut and Twitter using the general packet radio service technology on their mobile phones to stay in touch with their friends and acquaintances.
Qualcomm, the $11.14-billion digital wireless communications products and services provider, will introduce its low-cost video game console -- Zeebo -- in India by 2010. The company will also launch in India its FLO TV, which is size of an iPhone and currently available in the US.
The findings are part of the Kelly Global Workforce Index, which obtained the views of approximately 100,000 people in 34 countries covering North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
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