There are just 10 mn MF investors compared to 60 mn homes with life insurance.
Piramal Healthcare acquired 4.36 million shares from the open markets through its two promoter companies, PHL Holding Pvt Ltd and Swastik Safe Deposit & Investment.
In mid-May, the European Commission released 2009 data showing carbon emission in the region had fallen 11 per cent over last year, to 1.873 billion tonnes.
Crisil's experience is that these reports improve volumes for the companies covered.
With gold scaling all-time high levels and now trading at $1,241 per ounce, questions arise whether this is the right time to book profit from investment in gold or time to invest more.
The entrepreneurial bug does not appear to have bitten students at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad this year. So far, not even one student is believed to have opted out of the final placements process to start his own venture.
The IIMs were just recovering from the uproar over technical glitches during the CAT. Now, at least five students have filed applications under the right to information law.
Having witnessed a surge in the number of offers and average salaries as compared to 2009 -- a year marred by the impact of the global slowdown -- they believe the exuberance of 2008 would only return in 2011.
DIPP's proposal is believed to have the support of the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution and was originally mooted by the Forward Markets Commission.
Questions market regulator's showcause to insurers on conceptual, legal, structural grounds.
Tells finance ministry to allow companies a five-year timeframe
Economists forecast the benchmark food price indicator to slip to 12 per cent in near future
It may have been content so far with milk powder as a substitute, Nigeria now intends to replicate the Amul model in the near future.
Interview with Shankar Sharma,VC & Joint MD, First Global.
"Denim is one of the world's oldest fabrics, yet it remains eternally young," declared an American Fabrics magazine writer in 1969. This Levi Strauss & Co post on its website reflects what Indian denim producers intend to do -- let the Generation Y tailor the pair of jeans for the market.
The industry's estimated losses stand at Rs 5-6 crore per day.
Index products like fixed-income, volatility and weather to broaden basket for hedging.
Results of the Common Admission Test could get delayed with Indian Institutes of Management and Prometric, which conducted the online test, still to decide a new date for conducting the exam for students who could not give their exam due to technical glitches.
India Inc sells a third of carbon credits to middlemen at low rates.