The first private equity deal in the Indian health insurance sector is set to be sealed soon.
Half the money, to be invested over the next 12 months, will be used to expand its mobile network.
Sahara group promoter Subrata Roy said he will take his newly acquired Indian Premier League (IPL) team public by 2013, the second year of operations, and is open to having investors take a minority equity stake in the franchisee.
Cephalon, a US-based drug maker, has filed a lawsuit against Lupin Ltd and its US subsidiary Lupin Pharmaceuticals for challenging the patents on its sleep disorder drug Nuvigil.
Indian companies with a majority foreign shareholding will not get relief from the stringent norms that govern their contributions and donations within the country.
Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the world's second-largest drug company, was in India this week as part of the dedication of an albandazole manufacturing facility at Nashik to the World Health Organization (WHO)'s global programme to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis.
Currently, FDI up to 100 per cent is allowed in the drugs and pharmaceuticals on the automatic route.
The money, together with disinvestment proceeds, is crucial for Mukherjee to meet his fiscal deficit target of 5.5 per cent for 2010-11 from 6.7 per cent in 2009-10.
By setting a single spectrum-release deadline for all bidders, the finance ministry aims to ensure a level playing field for all operators.
India's share will only get bigger once SpiceJet enters the fray from June to fly south east Asia and south Asian countries.
If most of the top 10 Indian drug companies were less than Rs 500-crore (Rs 5-billion) turnover ones a decade earlier and were focused only on domestic business, now they are companies with annual businesses ranging from Rs 2,000-Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 20-60 billion) and with operations spanning 60-100 countries and employing 3,000-5,000 people.
An analysis of the growth rate of 15 leading drug companies for the third quarter of 2008-09 show excellent performances in domestic turf have been often marred by the poor show of their acquired assets.
Manufacturers that mainly sell diesel cars like Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen anticipate a significant fall in sales if the government accepts the Parikh committee's recommendation of a flat tax of Rs 80,000 on diesel cars, because of a widening cost differential with petrol variants.
The deal size could be in excess of Rs 2,000 crore, though this could not be verified. Sivasankaran had invested close to Rs 1,800 crore in 2007 to take a 41 per cent stake in Aamby Valley. The Sahara Group is the majority investor, with a 51 per cent stake.
Manufacturers that mainly sell diesel cars like Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen anticipate a significant fall in sales if the government accepts the Parikh committee's recommendation of a flat tax of Rs 80,000 on diesel cars, because of a widening cost differential with petrol variants.
In this emerging trend, doctors are joining hands with venture capitalists, drug firms and medical equipment vendors to set up advanced medical care facilities at low costs.
The first Indian civil aviation minister to fly for a commercial airline -- Rajiv Gandhi has been the only prime minister to do so -- Rudy started his job with IndiGo from January 4.
This metro line would be a 33.65-km rail link between Bangalore City Centre and Bangalore International Airport.
It has 150 research and development locations in over 30 countries around the world, employing over 32,300 people.
the early 1980s, multinationals set up R&D units in India to make use of the low costs and huge talent pool.
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