The government on Monday cleared 18 foreign direct investment proposals involving Rs 118.93 crore including Standard Chartered Private Equity's plan to pick up 14.35 per cent stake in NDTV for Rs 52.88 crore.
Foreign players like Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC and ABN Amro Bank see opportunities to spread their wings in India after the ceiling on voting rights is lifted by the government.
Citibank is no longer quite the king of the Indian credit card market. It has been dethroned by ICICI Bank, which now claims it has 3 million credit cards.
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS hailed its expansion from 17 to 114 companies and praised member firms like Standard Chartered Bank PLC, Tata Steel and Daimler-Chrysler.\n
Standard Chartered Bank, which has completed 10 years in credit card business in India, has introduced an equated monthly instalment card.
The legendary runner lamented the fact that today's crop 200 and 400 metres runners lack consistency.
Henry Wanyoike is a strong favourite for the 21 kms half marathon.
Partially paralysed but with unbreakable will power and determination, Nihad Panju has beaten the odds to become a fitness freak and is all set to run his 4th Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
Mumbai Marathon Race Director Hugh Jones said the Mumbai event will not have timings as good as those of the London or Chicago marathons.\n\n
The Railways lass improved upon her mark of 3.51 metres by four centimeters to win the women's pole vault at the Open National Athletics Championships.
The Karnataka lass set a new meet record on the second day of the Open National athletics championships.
To mark its 150th year of inception, Standard Chartered Bank would strengthen its presence in the country and open 23 new branches and 81 ATMs in this calendar year.
Private airline Air Sahara on Wednesday launched a credit card with Standard Chartered Bank as part of efforts to improve passenger traffic and boost revenues.
Its obsession for growth, chasing corporate clients and giving up its original mandate of meeting the needs of local trade and businesses. A quarter of its loan book has gone bad. That's an error of business strategy, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
StanChart India CEO Zarin Daruwala is building a culture of 'celebrating liabilities,' the tough negotiator tells Niraj Bhatt and Anup Roy over lunch.
K C Ramu and Sarabjit Kaur emerged best respectively among Indian men and women runners.
Credit cards prove useful when making high value transactions.
Standard Chartered Bank on Monday launched in India its Visa Mini card, which is almost half the size of a regular credit card, targetted at the growing young-earner segment.
Nokia has tied up with Citibank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Standard Chartered, HSBC, ICICI Bank and SBI Cards for the EMI scheme and the offer will be available to consumers with credit cards from any of these banks.
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