The assessment highlights the challenges posed by modern technologies that are automating and making redundant multiple human tasks, from manufacturing to healthcare
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, has signed a deal for a whopping $3 million to pen down her memoir.
The company, which on March 11 raised $1 billion through a 10-year bond issue, raised $500 million through senior notes.
Flipkart, India's largest e-tailer, raised $210 million in a fresh round of funding from a group of four investors led by internet-focussed investment group DST Global, it said in a statement on Monday.
Net profit in 2012 was $72.6 million, compared with $4.56 billion profit in 2011, Cairn said in a statement.
Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Thursday signed a five-year managed services deal valued at $500 million with Alcatel Lucent for its fixed-line and broadband operations.
Samsung leads the India Tablet market (five-inch screen size and above) for CY 2012 and Q4 2012, followed by Micromax.
The Smart Power model is an innovative way to deliver clean energy.
PV Sindhu, Depika Padukone ensured Indian representation on the global front.
The company, started by three BITS Pilani graduates in 2005, could be planning to aggressively scale up its business to tap the untapped potential that the bus-booking service offers in India.
Since the coming into force of PMLA in 2005, ED has traced and attached laundered assets worth Rs 5,346 crore.
ocial networking site Facebook has said it is having approximately 50 million duplicate accounts besides 22 million of misclassified and undesirable accounts.
Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing subsidiary of the information technology giant, has signed an agreement to acquire all the share capital in Portland Group, an Australian company, for A$34 million (Rs 180 crore).
The 'doomsday plane' was mobilised in the tumultuous hours after planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania on 9/11.
After three weeks of fall, India's foreign exchange reserve rose by $990 million to $248.611 billion during the week ended January 30, 2009, mainly due to revaluation in the foreign currency assets and gold reserves.
PE players seal over $737 mn deals in February: Thornton.
The Rio Olympics gold medal contest in badminton women's singles between India's P V Sindhu and Spain's Carolina Marin attracted 17.2 million TV viewers, according to the broadcasters.
Despite the listed funds outflow, the foreign portfolio investor activity in the region remained upbeat as other participants remained active
The world's second largest jeans maker Carrera Jeans of Italy on Saturday said it would invest $250 million in India.
Emerging market equity funds struggled to attract fresh money last week and absorbed a mere net $ 265 million on account of outflows in commodity fund, says a EPFR report.
Ola Cabs acquires TaxiForSure in $200-mn deal.
US regulator SEC has asked an appeals court to affirm a district court's decision that India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta pay a $13.9 million penalty and be banned for life from serving as director of a public corporation.
Despite the growing clamour from the central government on India turning digital, and banks requesting direct bank account transfer, the state government decided to hand over cheques to the farmers, which can be immediately converted into cash.
Apple promised to appeal.
The company is likely to choose one of its existing auditing partners -- PricewaterhouseCoopers, EY (formerly Ernst & Young) and KPMG -- as an advisor for the listing process.
Internet search giant Google's India-born Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora will receive a bonus of $3.5 million, the highest amount paid to a top executive at the company for performance in fiscal year 2013.
The UK voted to leave the EU by 52 to 48 per cent in Thursday's referendum but the majority of voters in London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed the Remain side in a 72 per cent turnout.
India's foreign exchange reserve fell by $550 million to $245.80 billion during the week ended November 21, 2008, due to revaluation in some foreign currencies and partial intervention by the Reserve Bank of India to check a steep depreciation of the rupee.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a source of funding has shrunk to a trickle for the once lucrative telecom sector with foreign investment inflows plunging to $43 million in the April-September period of the current fiscal.
The plant, Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which is being developed by BrightSource Energy, will generate 392 MW of clean, solar energy when completed in 2013, Google said.
Headstrong buy the biggest deal in Indian BPO space
Smartphone shipments stood at 16.2 million in 2012.
Invests $50 mn in 11 entities in just over a year, commits $25 mn more; prefers putting money in firms trying to solve India-specific problems
ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), the foreign arm of government-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), is likely to raise about $900 million through a bond issue abroad in January 2013.
The US government has asked a court in New York to slap a maximum penalty of $15 million on India-born fallen Wall Street titan Rajat Gupta and permanently bar him from serving as director of any publicly-traded firm for his "terrible breach of trust" by indulging in insider trading.
India on Thursday approved small-scale projects worth $100 million for implementation in strife-torn Afghanistan.
Aurobindo Pharma, Cadila Healthcare and Serum Institute are readying their vaccine candidates.
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Infosys will develop software for managing the kumbh mela scheduled in Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) in 2016, he told PTI in an interview.
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