About five new operators are ready to start operations by the end of this year, adding to the over eight incumbents slugging it out to grab a share in a mobile market that is expected to grow to 750 million subscribers by 2012 against over 450 million at present.
More doctors and healthcare professionals are joining management schools, turned away by the limited number of seats for a post-graduate course in medicine and the prospects of a better pay package after graduating from a B-school.
Essar group, which is buying out the Uganda and Congo assets of Warid Telecom -- a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi Group and Singtel and is present in Kenya, has also reportedly been sounded out by Zain shareholders. A company spokesperson, however, declined to comment on the issue.
Slow domestic growth, global ambitions will prompt deals similar to MTN, say analysts
Jet Airways expects to raise over Rs 1,000 crore by selling 2.5 acres of premium land it owns in the Bandra-Kurla area in Mumbai. The move will partly help the company to raise about $400 million (roughly Rs 2,000 crore) to cut its debt burden of Rs 15,885 crore.
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has indicated that it may allow the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management to set up campuses in foreign countries once they improve their faculty positions.
Permission for dual listing would require full capital account convertibility and therefore changes in regulations under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
The deal, which will be the largest in the global telecom space, will be subject to South African government approval.
Airline managements are divided on the likely impact of the settlement of the Jet Airways imbroglio.
The government has sought to put an end to the ambiguities in the implementation of Press Notes 2 and 4, which significantly relaxed foreign direct investment (FDI) guidelines, with the Commerce Ministry requesting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to make changes in the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) to operationalise the guidelines. The direction from the government follows a number of references and queries from investors.
Claim breach in procedure, demand probes; Reliance denies charge
Halving the productivity-linked incentive will make its salary levels unattractive and put a heavier burden on junior staffers.
Eases regulatory hurdles for Bharti-MTN deal.
Analysts say that these programmes are not system heavy or resource intensive.
They also siphon money through 'work@home' schemes.
New Delhi, 7 August A strike call and its withdrawal proved an embarrassment for a former senior aviation bureaucrat.
Airline losses have more to do with their business models than the price of aviation fuel.
With malware makers aiming to create as many as 6,000 new pieces of malware per day, the growth of malicious software continues to accelerate.
MTNL will be one of the few big telecom companies in the world to allow competitors to offer their brand on its network.
Airline asks for Rs 7,000 cr; may get half subject to conditions.
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