The salaries of Indian's ground staff, who have threatened to strike work over wage arrears, are on a par with their peers in Air-India (AI) and other private airlines.
The $4 billion tractor-to-IT conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra is in talks with European fresh produce supply chain and distribution companies to set up a supply joint venture to cater to international and domestic markets.
The picture is becoming bigger for the core sector. Lower margins from infrastructure projects and expectations of a higher yield from real estate projects have seen many a core sector company jumping on the realty bandwagon.
WNS, for instance, has 1,200 people in Nashik, a tier II city. It is looking at expanding its presence in tier II cities.
The sales of construction companies are expected to rise in the current quarter and financial year on the back of strong order books and increased activity in infrastructure.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has asked public sector banks to go slow on disbursals of home and other consumption loans to help fight inflation.
Three months after the Foreign Investment Promotion Board put its entry into India on hold, US coffee retail giant Starbucks has sent a revised application to operate single-brand retail stores under a restructured entity.
Rating agencies think repealing the archaic law would help attain greater transparency and efficiency and reduce problems in accessing funds overseas.
Over 30 domestic pharmaceutical companies, including Ranbaxy, Cipla, Nicholas Piramal, Zydus Cadila and Torrent, face a possible ban on the sale of the generic version of Merck's pain management drug in the Indian market.
Joining the big league of the global hotel chains expanding in India, Hong Kong-based $2 billion JB group will set up as many as 20 hotels and shopping malls in the country over the next three years.
Thirty-four of the CEOs polled, or 89.5 per cent, said they would not scale down business projections for 2007-08, though 28 of them, or 73.7 per cent, expect money to become costlier.
The two petrol models of the Logan are priced between Rs 428,000 and Rs 644,000, while its diesel model's price range is Rs 547,000 to Rs 651,000. The range overlaps the pricing of the premium hatchbacks as well as of mid-size cars.
Move raises doubts about the viability of the business model in organised retail.
The country's leading steel companies were considering a price increase of Rs 1,000-2,000 per tonne from April 1, despite a partial rollback last month.
Tata Power, the country's largest private utility by sales, announced the acquisition of 30 per cent stake in two coal mining units and a related trading outfit of Indonesia's PT Bumi Resources for nearly Rs 4,740 crore ($1.1 billion).
Refrigerators or ACs could be dearer soon as the consumer durable companies start conforming to energy efficiency standards.
With the bidding for the generics business of Merck set to begin from Monday, domestic pharmaceutical companies in the fray, Ranbaxy Laboratories and Dr Reddy's Laboratories, are unlikely to go for an all-out bidding war.
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), the country's largest tractor company, has acquired the controlling stake in Punjab Tractors Ltd (PTL), the fourth largest tractor firm, outbidding Hinduja group firm Ashok Leyland.
Real estate companies are rushing in on the opportunities galore around the two SEZs promoted by Reliance Industries.
With his Mumbai sojourn,Wal-Mart Vice-Chairman Michael Duke gave enough signals that Wal-Mart is testing waters before it actually enters the organised retail in India.
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