Rapid growth in the automobile industry has seen the market share of fake spare parts more than treble from 12 per cent to as much as 37 to 47 per cent in the past seven years.
Japan's Kawasaki Motors plans to tap long-time partner Bajaj Auto's vendors for putting together its high-end motorcycles for the global market.
Leading property developers have made offers for this prime property, which real estate industry sources suggest could fetch Fiat more than Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
Competition with online international networks hots up in cyberspace.
Declining sales and sliding margins are compelling two-wheeler makers such as Bajaj Auto, Hero Honda and TVS Motors to rejig strategy, to cope with the slowdown.
At a time when the automobile industry is eyeing a market of 2 million cars by 2010, various automobile projects of industry majors, including Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra, are running behind schedule.
Matrimonial sites like Bharat Matrimony and Shaadi.com have been around for a decade as compared to dating and friendship sites, which are just around three years old in India.
Tata Motors sells Indica and Indigo cars, pick-up trucks and long-haul high capacity trucks that are exported to SA through its subsidiary Tata South Africa.
The financing arm of the $4.5 billion Mahindra Group, Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services Limited, is now looking to tap overseas markets with possible ventures in the US and South Africa.
Virus attacks are no more just virtual. They now have a voice and are getting more personal.
Japan, which is the second-largest IT market after the US, is still untapped by Indian firms.
The figure is expected to rise to 25-30 per cent, adding around 100 million new cellular subscribers by 2009, according to a recent study by LIRNEasia and AC Nielson.
Tatas have a presence in Korea following the acquisition of Daewoo's heavy commercial vehicles business some years ago.
India needs to develop mass production companies which can cater to requirements of 100,000's units as opposed to the available capacities of a few thousand pieces on an average said David Bradley, director of commodity management,Asia,Jabil Circuit.
But despite the growth, the base of really 'active' online buyers (those who buy online at least once a month) is almost stagnant at 2.2 million, same as 2006.
The demand may increase due to the untapped potential.
Indian Internet Service Providers are upbeat about Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) as a solution for the country's last-mile connectivity problems.
Mining giant eyes 51% in Ashapura Minechem's alumina project in Orissa.
A Frost & Sullivan report to be released later this month states the number of seats in pure IP will grow from 10 percent in 2006 to 34 percent in 2013.
Reva, the only electric car which, is exported to the UK market from India, may get a red signal from the UK government, owing to revised safety norms proposed by the UK Department of Transport.
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