India's largest diversified media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL), popularly known as the Times Group, has joined the race to pick up a majority stake in the two sports channels of Nimbus Communications.
The countdown for BG's stake sale in Gujarat Gas Company (GGCL) begins tomorrow. Three months after BG made its intention of divesting its stake clear, over half a dozen potential bidders are likely to submit non-binding bids for BG's 65.12 per cent stake in the country's largest natural gas distributor by sales.
Shree Cement may join race; units in 3 more African countries may be sold.
It was in 2009 that the accounting regulator set up a special disciplinary committee, comprising six members, to look into the fraud in Hyderabad-based IT firm.
Clients picky on various heads; vendors need to maintain share.
The FDI floodgates have opened mega opportunities for not only brick-and-mortar retailers, but for their virtual peers as well.
The latest available data from the Reserve Bank of India show a 77 per cent jump in the FDI in the first half of the current financial year (April-September), compared to what was $19.5 billion the same period a year ago.
His debt woes may continue and losses double, but the King of Good Times was clearly in a defiant mood at a press meet in a packed venue in a suburban hotel in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Indiagames is a leading developer and publisher of mobile and online games.
BT has been associated with Tech Mahindra since the latter's inception and contributes 40 per cent to the firm's revenue but it has been looking at divesting its stake.
According to two independent sources in the know, GVK's lead underwriter, ICICI Bank, plans to reduce its exposure in the highly leveraged transaction. Following the move, the other PSU lenders have told GVK they, too, would like to proportionately bring down exposure.
Mumbai-based business process outsourcing firm Firstsource plans to sell US-based MedAssist, a health care business it acquired in 2007. Firstsource had paid $330 million for the acquisition.
Discussions have been initiated to sell the company to a Mumbai-headquartered, highly diversified, multi-billion dollar corporate group which has interests in retail and logistics, among various others.
According to two independent sources in the know, the group is exploring the possibility of tapping private equity investors for a significant minority stake in the company or may even exit the business, provided it gets a significant exit premium.
In what will be the largest media deal in India, Multi-Screen Media (MSM), which runs Sony Television in India, is set to buy Ramoji Rao-owned Eenadu TV's (ETV's) bouquet of 11 regional channels.
After eight years of joint operations in news television, the relationship between Rupert Murdoch-controlled STAR Group and Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) TV has run into rough weather.
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) decision to expand gTLD (generic top-level domain) names on the internet to include almost any name (even .anything), is foxing both users and registers. It has also raised fears of online trademark violations and cybersquatting.
Six months after the Paras deal, Actis wants to exit Sterling Hospitals, a Gujarat-based multi-speciality hospital chain with six centres, according to three independent sources in the know.
Ashutosh Vaidya, head, Wipro BPO Solutions, and Deepak Jain, head, Technology Infrastructure Services, have put in their papers, said the sources. The reasons for the resignations could not be confirmed.
At present, at least, five over $500-million deals are being discussed for potential acquisition.
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