India's mid-cap software companies may shed as much as 10 per cent of their workforce as revenues and margins have shrunk owing to a global slowdown, analysts say.
The move will help the utility to charge more from its 2.6 million users in Mumbai. Reliance Infrastructure (Rel Infra) had asked asked the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission for a 4.19 per cent rise in its annual revenue requirement. It was instead granted an increase of 10 per cent. Mumbai and its suburbs are serviced by Tata Power, Brihanmumbai Electricity & Suburban Transport and Reliance Energy.
The markets have reacted negatively, for example, to recent news that Cairn India, of which the Anil Agarwal group company Vedanta owns 60 per cent, will give a $1.25-billion loan (about Rs 7,500 crore) on notably easy terms to Sesa Sterlite, another Anil Agarwal group company.
India are in sight of their first series triumph on Sri Lankan soil in 22 years, having reduced the hosts to 67 for 3 after setting them a daunting target of 386 in the third and final Test in Colombo on Friday.
India has shipped close to 85 million mobile handsets between April 2007 and March 2008, compared to under 66 million units shipped in the previous fiscal, registering an year-on-year growth of around 29 per cent.
At a time when crude oil prices are softening internationally, domestic carriers are raising fares by as much as 10 per cent to boost yields and cut losses. The new rates will be effective from August 1.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to deliver his third Independence Day speech on August 15, he is inviting ideas from citizens on issues he should speak on
The high growth rate over the last few years has been more cyclical, than structural, in nature. And continued supply side bottlenecks will necessarily mean that periods of high growth will trigger inflationary pressures.
'India needs to adopt a more proactive policy of triggering exports to China.'
'The India-France relationship has been that of the elites of two countries, who appreciate each other's philosophical traditions -- whether it is ancient Indian civilisation and Sanskrit texts or the French tradition of Rene Descartes, Albert Camus, (Jean-Paul) Sartre... This is a drawback. It doesn't create the buzz, the excitement necessary for a relationship. We need more people-to-people contact, especially among students,' says former Ambassador to Paris, Rakesh Sood.
Projects in other developed countries, such as Canada, and even in developing nations like Mozambique and Indonesia are also in limbo
VW is under pressure to identify those responsible, to say how vehicles with illegal software will be fixed.
The station with the most annual revenue is CST Mumbai, followed by Dadar.
Here is a list of all the risks that your body gets exposed to if you are a junk food addict and eat out often...
According to a Pro-LTTE website, the rebels claimed they thwarted an attack from the Sri Lankan Armed Forces at Muhamalai in Jaffna peninsula on Saturday morning.
All the 17 Indian sailors, who survived the capsize of their cargo ship off the Bahrain coast, spent almost three hours in a life raft in extreme cold before being plucked to safety in a dramatic rescue operation by a police helicopter. The ship Siddnath, loaded with rice from the United Arab Emirates, was heading to Iraq when it capsized on Friday morning, but no one was injured in the incident despite the waves rising as high as 10 feet.
Chelsea's unbeaten start to the season ended with a dramatic 2-1 defeat at Newcastle United; Champions Manchester City took full advantage of Chelsea's surprise reverse to cut the gap at the top.
The Centre has issued advisories from time-to-time to all these states and the states had generally cited paucity of funds and lesser number of complaints of human rights that does not justify setting up a full-fledged commission.
Foreigners from various corners of the globe to move out of Kathmandu and others parts of Nepal.
Germany's Thomas Mueller struck twice as the nervy world champions kicked off their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a 2-1 victory over Scotland on Sunday.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a dubious penalty as 10-man Inter Milan beat second-from-bottom Empoli 1-0 on Sunday to pull eight points clear at the top of Serie A.
Mahindra United drew with Al Nejmeh 3-3 in the away match in Beirut and lost the AFC Cup tie on 5-4 aggregate.
A bill to auction coal mines is also likely to be passed later.
A quick look at the tourist state's history shows that it ventured into political instability only after it attained statehood in 1987 and number of constituencies increased from 30 to 40.
It's raining dollars on the bourses with the total wealth invested in Indian stock markets crossing the one-trillion-dollar milestone, small investors' share in the country's five most valued firms worth as much as $10 billion.
The government will decide in August whether to sell a 5 percent stake in ONGC, a senior oil ministry official said, in a deal that would be worth $2.9 billion at current market prices.
The commerce ministry has allowed the technical expert group headed by former Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Chief R A Mashelkar to correct the "technical inacuracies" in the patent law report and re-submit it within three months.
Chelsea, needing victory to keep the title race alive, could only scrape a 1-1 draw at Arsenal on Sunday.
Two supporters were kept in overnight and a local hospital spokesman said one fan had suffered stomach wounds as 10-man United lost their quarter-final, first leg 2-1.
Tapeshwar Ram, has hand-pulled a rickshaw on the streets of Kolkata for 30 years. He works 7 days a week and plans to call it a day soon - and that's when he plans to take his wife for her first-ever holiday.
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Mayank Ashar talks about India's business environment.
New book claims Amar Singh gave between 20 and 100 per cent of his entire net worth to the Clinton Foundation.
The markets plunged after hitting a new high of 11,931 on Friday.
After six years in the business, the scorecard of Bengaluru-based QwikCilver is impressive, with a 90 per cent market share.
US-based leading online newspaper Huffington Post is planning to launch an India edition by May this year and negotiations are currently underway to finalise a local partner for this venture.
Details on prices sought as 10 generic drugs become up to 83 times costlier in 6 months
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Instead of tinkering with roaming, the circle system should be ended.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to South Korea is considered essential in strengthening defence ties, enhancing economic cooperation and forging cultural ties between the two countries, says Dr Rahul Mishra
Efforts to arrest self-styled 'godman' Rampal, who is holed up in his ashram in Barwala, Haryana will continue, police said on Wednesday morning after suspending the operation overnight following clashes between his supporters and security personnel that left over 200 people injured.
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