Internet retailer Amazon and its fast-growing local rivals are driving a boom in commercial property leasing in India.
Even as domestic passenger car sales declined 29.4 per cent between April and August this year, exports grew 6.5 per cent, partially cushioning the blow from slowing sales.
Dabur's international business stands at around Rs 380 crore (Rs 3.8 billion), out of which Nepal accounts for Rs 40 crore (Rs 400 million), while Pakistan contributes around Rs 10-12 crore (Rs 100-120 million). However, the bulk of Dabur's international business comes from the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries and Africa.
Even after UBS Global Asset Management's $220 million deal to acquire Standard Chartered Bank's mutual fund management business in India fell through, the Swiss financial services giant exuded confidence that it will beef up its asset management business operations in the sub-continent.
Questions on the efficacy of the government's drive towards filing of more returns by individuals and on whether raising tax exemption levels has led to reduced compliance in filing of returns by those who go out of the tax net, says A K Bhattacharya.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on Thursday said it had set a target of rolling out one crore (10 million) mobile telephone connections in the country for which work would begin from April next year.\n\n
American brewer Molson Coors has acquired a majority stake in the Karan Bilimoria-owned Cobra Beer in Britain.
Tatas plan to revive, not sell the Port Talbot steel plant. The investment could be as much as $500 million.
The decision to delete rules governing locations under the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act 1951 was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet. Earlier, the industries other than non-polluting electronics, computer software and printing were not allowed to be located within 25 km from the periphery of cities above population of one million.
Nano, the wheels that millions of Indians have been waiting to drive, on Monday hit the roads and waved goodbye to Tata Motors' enduring image as a truckmaker.
India is the world's third largest smartphone market.
An inhospitable climate and the smallest population of any World Cup nation have failed to dampen Iceland's burning desire
Electrical equipment maker Crompton Greaves today said it will acquire Ireland-based Microsol Holdings Ltd for an enterprise value of around euro10.50 million (over Rs 57 crore).
The quality of Indian tea had lately come under scrutiny in major export markets, due to the presence of pesticides and chemicals beyond permissible limits.
Vadra, on Facebook termed as "witch hunt" the Enforcement Directorate's action of attaching assets of a firm linked to him, and claimed that it showed "complete misuse of assertion of power".
'Whenever you roll out: effectiveness is important, operational logistics are important, side effects are important and vaccine hesitancy is important.'
EPFO's Central Provident Fund Commissioner K K Jalan has said that these directives shall help the body in getting the bank account details of all the members which are necessary for making UAN operational.
Bank dismisses mis-selling charges, says lawsuit filed after it initiated legal recovery action over loan default
It was no surprise that Croatia cavorted on the pitch in celebration with fans and family long after beating England in the semi-finals of the World Cup on Wednesday night, but a wiser head might have ushered them quietly to ice bath and bed.
'I am here to terminate climate change once and for all.'
The new law will have penal provisions of Rs 50 lakh and five year imprisonment for celebrities promoting sale of items without verifying the quality.
When BJP leaders, including Mr Modi's number two, Amit Shah, use the pandemic to launch an assault on state governments run by opposition parties, or to topple them, they are exploiting a grave crisis in cynical political self-interest, notes Shekhar Gupta.
VCFs plan to disinvest their IT holdings to ITeS firms and gain from local markets
Following the footsteps of Motorola, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi is also teaming up with e-Commerce major Flipkart to launch its handsets in India.
Six soccer officials were arrested in Zurich on Wednesday and detained pending extradition to the United States over suspected corruption at soccer's governing body FIFA, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FCOJ) said in a statement.
FIIs have been aggressive buyers of bonds since the beginning of 2013.
Particularly hit has been the apparel sector, where the time taken by the industry to adjust to the Goods and Services Tax regime, downward revision of export incentives, and a credit squeeze faced by small and medium scale enterprises, has pushed production downwards.
The university will invest 10 million pounds initially to set up its first business research centre.
The liquidity crunch in global markets following the crisis in the US sub-prime mortgage business has prompted Jet Airways to postpone its $ 400 million rights issue to finance the airline's aircraft acquisition by two or three months.
A flavour-of-the-season approach does not work in investing, suggests Deepesh Raghaw.
As competition for the smartphones market hots up, new players are making waves.
Associated Journals was allotted 3,478 sq m of land by the Maharashtra govt in 1983 for building a Nehru Memorial library and a research centre.
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India has the fourth highest number of malaria cases in the world.
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