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.
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).
The latest estimates of poverty reduction in the country, put out by the National Sample Survey (NSS), are unique in that they have not been welcomed by anyone.
Refrigerators or ACs could be dearer soon as the consumer durable companies start conforming to energy efficiency standards.
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has done a great job to try and break the Doha deadlock and get the leading players to now set a new deadline to get things sorted out, but if he is serious about things, India needs to change its tactics somewhat.
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.
Despite the missive on the impact of foreign retail on the small kirana shops in the country written by Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, everyone in the government knows that it was never to be taken seriously.
There is the larger issue of whether PSUs should be going through such elaborate tendering procedures when no private company follows the same procedures. In today's ultra-competitive world, it does seem an invitation to disaster.
On December 4 last year, the stock of the world's largest drugmaker, Pfizer, fell 10.6 per cent, wiping out more than $21 billion in market value in a single day.
Having moved into original research, they have attracted overseas professionals looking to come back, some nudged by MNCs' narrowing research.
Five years later, it is obvious Maruti is the better bet.
A third of firms said they wouldn't have existed had it not been for PE and over 62 per cent said they'd have grown slower.
On February 16, 2006, the Supreme Court supported the residents and ordered sealing of shops/offices located in residential areas, to start from March 29.
India's R&D spend trebled in a decade, but China's has grown even faster
Education policy in India has got to be among the most bizarre ever seen.
Pratham's latest report on rural education has some good news, but it's mainly bad.
Even by the standards of vacillation of the government, the policy on increasing foreign investment levels in telecom has got to take the cake.
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