The 'angel tax' and notices to start-ups and angel investors from the income tax department was certainly a dampener. However, a bigger factor is the lack of exits.
Retailers, especially food and grocery chains, are clearly unhappy, saying the ban is impractical
The Libertadores Cup derby between Boca Juniors and River Plate was called off at halftime on Thursday after River players were sprayed with an irritant by a fan of their bitter rivals.
Amid the noise around multinational retail chains queuing up to enter India comes a calming revelation. According to management consultancy firm A T Kearney, not all retail biggies continue in the new markets that they enter.
With the first Dell personal computers going on sale in Wal-Mart Stores in the US and Puerto Rico, the $56 billion company is reportedly planning to sell its PCs through retail stores in Asia (including India) and Australia.
The investments include the supply chain, but exclude real estate component.
The New Year could well end up being the year of organised retailers.
At a skunk works in Seattle, Boeing engineers look to Wal-Mart, Disney and Starbucks for ideas.
The US retailer hopes to triple its sourcing from India by 2010 and touch the $1 billion mark. The retailer has been running a sourcing operation, Target Sourcing Services/AMC, in India since 1975.
Our focus is on the best price, the best experience and the best quality.
With more than 60 per cent of the country's 109 crore population concentrated in rural areas, companies do not want to miss the growing business opportunity.
Domestic IT services company Paradyne Infotech is in the final stages of acquiring a US-based software services company with a turnover of around $10 million in the last financial year, a source said.
200 hypermarket and large format stores by 2010.
Check the Fortune 500 listings, and you will find that the largest companies in the world tend to be in five or six key businesses: energy, automobiles, telecom, IT, banking and retailing.
From a modest two-bedroom apartment in Koramangala, the Bengaluru-headquarted company now has multiple offices across the country.
After creating a niche in the inter-city bus mart, luxury bus maker Volvo is now targeting the city-bus segment, bagging the first order in Bangalore.
The Congress has made lack of jobs, along with agrarian distress, its key election plank in the run-up to the December 7 assembly polls.
China has become a major supplier of the world's merchandise as approximately $60 billion worth of goods are set to be purchased this year by multinationals like Wal-Mart.
We bring you glimpses of the Raksha Bandhan moments in Bollywood.
Among the countries taking part are the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Russia, China and Spain, while the companies include Microsoft, Intel, AMD and Reliance.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has started questioning gangster Chhota Rajan in Tihar prison in connection with journalist Jyotirmoy Dey murder case.
Indian exporters undertaking supplies to global retailers like Wal-Mart and Metro will be required to affix the electronic product code tags on their consignments from the beginning of next year.
As the number of cases crossed 2,56,000 with more than 7,100 fatalities, according to Union health ministry figures, and the country made a calibrated exit from the lockdown in non-containment zones, shop shutters in many malls went up for the first time since March 25 but the sprawling retail places were eerily empty.
A 58-year-old Indian-American Sikh store owner bravely fought off a gun-wielding masked assailant by using his slipper, thwarting an attempted robbery in New York in the United States.
An unbeaten 59 by Rakesh Solanki gave Baroda the first innings lead against Haryana in the Ranji Trophy Elite division match on Saturday.
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