Global investors have poured in over $794 million in Asia-dedicated equity funds in the first week of April as India-focussed funds broke their 11-week outflow streak.
The ministry is likely to go by the recommendations of a committee on liberalising external commercial borrowings, headed by M S Sahoo, a former director with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
The global investment banking major has begun the process to explore the sale of its wealth management operations in India.
After months of negotiations, Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover is likely to get approval for a loan of pound 270 million (about Rs 2,000 crore) from the European Investment Bank on April 7, BBC reported on Saturday quoting official sources.
The company will retire part of the debt by way of sale and lease back of some its aircraft.
The company is targeting 100 million subscribers in shortest possible time, RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani said
The ILO said that the world needed 90 million new jobs between 2009 and 2010 in order to absorb new entrants to the labour market and avoid increasing the level of unemployment. Some 200 million people were jobless in 2008, the labour body said. This is up from 179 million in 2007 recorded in a January ILO report 'Global Employment Trends 2009'.
Media reports in Australia say the contract has now been awarded to EDS (part of IT major Hewlett-Packard). It is also understood that Satyam's new chief executive, A S Murty, had rushed to Australia last week in a last-ditch effort to retain the contract, which accounted for about 35 per cent of Satyam's revenue from Australia.
Financier Bernard Madoff, in jail now, had shelled out nearly $ 1 million towards lobbying and in campaign contributions, of which a large part went to the Democrats, a US research group has said.
The company added 10 million customers across its operations in 17 African countries in less than 12 months of having crossed 50 million subscribers.
As part of the engagement, HCL Technologies would provide application development and infrastructure support across the application stack of Oracle, open technologies, main frame, infrastructure support for network, security, storage, end user computing and data centres, HCL said in a statement.
Concur and Cleartrip through their partnership will target the rapidly-burgeoning Indian corporate travel segment.
The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday directed agitating Gujjar leaders to ensure that the statewide stir proposed by them from tomorrow remains peaceful and there is no violence.
GSM operators in the country have added 14.49 million new users in the month of March, taking the total GSM subscriber base to 569.55 million, an industry body said.
India's forex reserves decreased by 466 million to stand at 4139.44 billion during the week ended January 20, 2005 against $139.51 billion during the preceding week.
Occupational disease has overtaken workplace accidents as the biggest danger to Chinese workers with 200 million potentially under threat Tang Chun, an occupational disease expert with the labour protection department under the Federation said.
Premier League club Arsenal said on Monday it had agreed to be taken over by American billionaire Stan Kroenke in a deal which would value the club at 731 million.
Third-party BPO company Genpact on Thrusday said it has signed a multi-year contract with Germany-based technology group Linde to provide finance and accounting services, valued at over $60 million.\n\n
The top three operators - Airtel, Vodafone and Idea - which account for over 67 per cent of the GSM market, lost over 2.17 million users in September.
The three waves of devastating floods in Assam this year have left nearly 1.8 million children, along with their families, displaced, an assessment done by an NGO -- Save the Children -- found.
India's forex reserves decreased by $950 million to stand at $144 billion during the week ended December 23 against $145 billion during the preceding week.
All current staff of BPCM is expected to transfer to the new owners under equivalent terms and conditions.
These international travellers spent more than $134 billion during their visits, a 12 per cent increase from 2009.
Jha's compensation for 2010 included a salary of $900,000 and stock and option awards of about $10 million, the company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.
The buying of the aircraft was 'seen as a misuse of money at a time when the bank is reliant on public support'. The report said that Citi, which earlier insisted that it would go ahead with the purchase of the jet, backed out after officials acting for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, expressed strong opposition to the move.
On October 29, WhatsApp announced it was suing NSO Group for selling its software, Pegasus, which has the ability to compromise a device and get access to all of a target's data. Spooked by revelations that activists and journalists were spied upon by using NSO Group's spyware, many have moved to alternative messaging platforms such as Signal and Telegram.
Last year, Ranbaxy had paid around $4,20,000 to the US state of Idaho as part of a $500-million settlement that the drug firm had signed with US authorities.
India's forex reserves declined by $127 million to stand at $142.18 billion during the week ended November 18 against $142.30 billion during the preceding week.
The company recently expanded its services to 7 Indian cities.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell by $481 million to $254.759 billion for the week ended January 9 from $255.240 billion in the previous week.During the period, the foreign currency assets (FCAs) also decreased by $458 million to $245.417 billion as against $245.417 billion in the previous week.
IT major Tata Consultancy Services Ltd has acquired 100 per cent stake in Chilean software firm Comicrom for $ 23 million.
Rivals like Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp and Infosys Ltd have also sharpened focus on the healthcare sector
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