Big retailers say the events work, but others aren't sure.
According to estimates, about 7,000 new luxury apartments are expected to be available in the city in within a year, for over Rs 4.7 crore (Rs 47 million) each.
Following the success of the Rs 4,050-crore Wadala land deal in central Mumbai, at least three government agencies are planning to sell plots worth at least Rs 60 billion (Rs 6,000 crore) in the next two months.
The deterioration in the market mood has directly impacted fund-raising plans of real estate developers, many of whom have either delayed their initial public offers or have decided to go slow.
Apartments likely to be in the Rs 5-10 crore range each.
The sustained decline in the price of crude oil has reversed the trend in petroleum product pricing. Private retailers are looking to cut prices from next month, while public sector oil companies have shaved their losses on retail sale of petrol and diesel by more than half.
Reliance Retail Ltd, an arm of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd, posted profit for the first time after opening its first store nearly three-and-a-half years ago, mainly aided by a tax provision of Rs 250 million (Rs 25 crore).
Bharti Walmart, the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is also expected to open cash and carry stores in the South in the next 12-24 months.
A price of $4.20 per million British thermal units is not viable for smaller gas discoveries, say industry experts.
The subsidy burden of upstream oil companies, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India Ltd, have risen 42 per cent in a single quarter.
Call it a revival of the information technology (IT) industry or increase in demand from non-IT sectors, office lease and sale transactions have picked up by 10 to 15 per cent in the past quarter.
Says Bhushan-Essel combine, the highest bidder, has withdrawn but latter denies having done so.
Rural retail was supposed to cash in on the prosperity of Bharat, but the storyline hasn't really gone the way big corporate houses had hoped.
Rural retail was supposed to cash in on the prosperity of Bharat, but the storyline hasn't really gone the way big corporate houses had hoped.
Pantaloon Retail Ltd, the country's largest retail company, and Future Value Retail Ltd, recently carved out from Pantaloon as a 100 per cent subsidiary, plan to issue non-convertible debentures worth Rs 750 crore in the next three-four months, according to sources.
Almost one and a half year after tying up with Reliance Brands, a unit of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, Diesel opened its first store in Mumbai in April this year.
The petroleum ministry has put on back burner the proposal to create a national gas highway development authority, following an opposition from the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, which currently has the powers to authorise pipelines.
Siphoning off food and fuel meant for the poor has made India's public distribution system ineffective.
For developers who came out of a prolonged slowdown of 2008-09, the fund raising spree could be dangerous, say consultants.
However, storage capacity way behind even present public distribution system procurement need.
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