Sharmistha Mukherjee, Ajay Modi

Stories by Sharmistha Mukherjee, Ajay Modi

Reliance-RTL JV to launch channel Thrill

Reliance-RTL JV to launch channel Thrill

Rediff.com   30 Apr 2012

RTL is part of Europe's largest media firm, Bertelsmann AG, and has a market cap of $15.5 billion (Rs 69,900 crore).

Reliance-RTL JV to launch channel Thrill

Reliance-RTL JV to launch channel Thrill

Rediff.com   30 Apr 2012

Hironori Kanayama to head Honda's India operations

Hironori Kanayama to head Honda's India operations

Rediff.com   26 Apr 2012

Japanese auto major Honda Siel Cars India (HSCI), which recently forayed into the intensely competitive small car segment with the Brio, has brought an old hand on deck to grow operations aggressively in the Indian market.

ONGC to regain top profit slot from RIL

ONGC to regain top profit slot from RIL

Rediff.com   23 Apr 2012

RIL on Friday declared a net profit of Rs 20,040 crore (Rs 200.4 billion) for the 2011-12, a marginal drop from the Rs 20,286 crore (Rs 202.86 billion) it made in 2010-11.

Motown braces for wage revisions after three years

Motown braces for wage revisions after three years

Rediff.com   6 Apr 2012

After a year of industrial unrest, the big boys of the automobile industry in the Gurgaon-Manesar belt are set to initiate negotiations to settle wage agreements.

IOC, Nagarjuna miss tax holiday cut-off

IOC, Nagarjuna miss tax holiday cut-off

Rediff.com   2 Apr 2012

The last week of March saw a series of new refining capacity going on stream. HPCL-Mittal Energy, Essar Oil and Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals (MRPL) were able to announce completion of capacity additions a couple of days before the seven-year tax holiday in this regard came to an end, on March 31.

Oil producing firms to take a Rs 6,000-cr hit

Oil producing firms to take a Rs 6,000-cr hit

Rediff.com   19 Mar 2012

ONGC to take biggest hit of Rs 4,600 crore, followed by Cairn India and Oil India.

Huge oil losses may play havoc with govt plans

Huge oil losses may play havoc with govt plans

Rediff.com   19 Mar 2012

The government's plans to reign in petroleum subsidies to plug the fiscal deficit next financial year are in jeopardy, as a whopping Rs 2.13 lakh-crore revenue loss is expected at the current levels of global crude oil prices and domestic retail prices of controlled products.

TV channels line up special programmes for counting

TV channels line up special programmes for counting

Rediff.com   6 Mar 2012

With the curtains finally set to go up on the results of the assembly elections across five states on Tuesday, news channels are lining up an array of special programmes to hook viewers on D-day.

Subsidy burden zooms for ONGC, OIL

Subsidy burden zooms for ONGC, OIL

Rediff.com   27 Jan 2012

The two government upstream companies, along with GAIL, make good a third of the losses made by government oil marketing companies.

Household spending up as food prices decrease

Household spending up as food prices decrease

Rediff.com   6 Jan 2012

Food inflation has entered negative territory but consumers have had no respite on cost of living.

Maruti to develop global products with parent Suzuki

Maruti to develop global products with parent Suzuki

Rediff.com   6 Jan 2012

Suzuki Motor Corporation's Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), is going to play an increasingly important role in designing and developing global vehicles for the Japanese auto company in the coming years.

Hero MotoCorp to launch its own bikes ahead of schedule

Hero MotoCorp to launch its own bikes ahead of schedule

Rediff.com   28 Dec 2011

Hero promoters, the Munjals, have an agreement for sourcing technology and two-wheeler models from Honda till 2014.

Govt not in a hurry to reply to RIL's arbitration notice

Govt not in a hurry to reply to RIL's arbitration notice

Rediff.com   1 Dec 2011

Petroleum secretary G C Chaturvedi said the arbitration notice grants a time of up to a month to respond and there was no hurry.

Petroleum consumption sees slow growth

Petroleum consumption sees slow growth

Rediff.com   21 Nov 2011

The consumption of petroleum products in India is growing at a rate much lower than the conservative projection of 4.58 per cent made for this year by the Petroleum Products Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC), a wing of the petroleum ministry.

What ails Maruti's Manesar plant

What ails Maruti's Manesar plant

Rediff.com   19 Oct 2011

Maruti chairman R C Bhargava tells Sharmistha Mukherjee that there won't be a reduction on its dependence on the facility in Haryana.

IndianOil wants to get crude on credit

IndianOil wants to get crude on credit

Rediff.com   18 Oct 2011

Seeks deferred payments for domestic purchases, dollar window.

Maruti stir: With age and family on side, workers not giving up

Maruti stir: With age and family on side, workers not giving up

Rediff.com   18 Oct 2011

Most of the 2,000-odd protesting workers have earned a quarter of their salary in the four-month stand-off with the management.

After petrol, increase in CNG prices imminent

After petrol, increase in CNG prices imminent

Rediff.com   26 Sep 2011

Days after a Rs 3 per litre rise in petrol prices, it is the turn of compressed natural gas. Indraprastha Gas (IGL), monopoly marketer of CNG in and around this metropolis, is looking at raising the price by up to six or seven per cent (Rs 2 per kg) sometime next week, due to higher cost on account of a weakening rupee.

'Transparency' portal to track your LPG account

'Transparency' portal to track your LPG account

Rediff.com   23 Sep 2011

With the government preparing to restrict the number of subsidised cooking cylinders, oil marketing companies have launched a 'transparency' portal that allows customers to keep an eye on the number of cylinders sold in their account by the dealer.