Reliance Industries on Friday unveiled five fundamental strategic shifts for growth, laying emphasis on acquisitions and partnerships for growth rather than the organic route.
Shastri takes over from Ajay Shirke, who was made acting chairman of the Bangalore-based Academy after Kapil Dev was sacked from the post for signing up with the rebel Indian Cricket League.
Kingfisher Airlines may cut jobs, UB group chairman and CEO Vijay Mallya said on Thursday.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress on Wednesday announced five guarantees for women, including annual direct cash transfers of Rs 1 lakh to one woman from each of the country's poorest families and 50 per cent quota in all new recruitments in central government jobs.
Jagmohan Dalmiya said he will attend ICC executive board, development board and annual conference on behalf of the BCCI.
Union Minister Praful Patel was formally elected president of the All India Football Federation on Tuesday, thus bringing down curtains on ailing Priyan Ranjan Dasmunsi's 20-year reign at the helm. Patel, the Civil Aviation minister in the UPA government, was elected unopposed at the Annual General Meeting of the AIFF at its headquarters in Delhi.
In what turned out to be a formality, the Indian Olympic Association elections returned the same office-bearers, with Suresh Kalmadi as president for a fourth consecutive term.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on September 29 in Mumbai during which it will choose a president-elect who would take over the reins from September 2011.
Jet Airways, India's largest airline in terms of marketshare, is looking at an equity dilution, said Founder and Chairman Naresh Goyal.
The market breadth was negative. Out of 2932 stocks traded, 1306 stocks advanced while 1485 stocks declined.
Announcing a bullish stance on the company's financial position, the chairman and managing director said that RIL would become debt-free on a net basis in the current 2011-12 fiscal.
Former India captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth on Saturday became the new Chairman of the National Senior Cricket Selection Committee, replacing Dilip Vengsarkar at the helm of affiars.
Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly was retained as member of the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Technical Committee, headed by Sunil Gavaskar, at the Board's 80th Annual General Meeting in Mumbai on Thursday. The panel includes former Test umpire V K Ramaswamy and ex-India opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth, who was retained as the head of the senior selection committee for the 2009-10 season.
Amid suggestions aplenty, including from a former Tata Group veteran to choose someone from within the Tata family to head the conglomerate, incumbent chairman Ratan Tata on Friday said only the best would succeed him.
Investments of Rs 47,000 crore under implementation.
Biscuits major Britannia Industries on Monday said it would increase capacity by 20 per cent by expanding existing operations and going to new sites.
The company would decide on increasing the capacity and investment needed for the same in presence of its parent Suzuki Motor's chairman Osamu Suzuki
In a startling revelation, West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) chief Julian Hunte accused the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) of rejecting ICC's proposal of organising Test cricket with a four-year championship structure in place. Hunte made the statement in his report at the annual general meeting of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) this month.
Tata Motors is developing higher capacity engines for its Nano car, to target domestic as well as foreign markets.
The country's largest home loan player, Housing Development Finance Corporation, said on Thursday it will not hike interest rates even if the central bank signals an upward movement in the monetary policy on July 27.
"They (opposition parties) are not concerned about the development of the children of the country's poor. Their common minimum programme is to increase corruption for their family. Democracy means 'of the people, by the people, for the people'. But these dynastic parties have the mantra of 'of the family, by the family, for the family'. For them, their family is first, and the nation is nothing," he said.
The Indian information technology industry will need to move up the value chain to tackle competition from countries like China, Philippines and Vietnam, said Ratan Tata.
The prime minister is right when he exhorts the corporate world to rethink its terms of engagement in a society as poor and in as much flux as India.
BCCI's Annual General Meeting will be held in Kolkata for election of its office-bearers.
Jagmohan Dalmiya was re-elected unopposed at the Cricket Association of Bengal's 78th annual general meeting in Kolkata. He also retained his panel of two joint-secretaries and treasurer.
India's tour of South Africa will be confirmed only after the BCCI's annual general meeting later this month it was revealed on Tuesday after its secretary, Sanjay Patel, met with Cricket South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat in Dubai over the issue.
The company had raised a similar amount of debt in FY 09 as well. Reliance Power has bagged three of four contracts for developing UMPPs in the country.
The last date for filing the nominations for the ICC top job is October 20. The ICC Board will meet from November 11-13 in Melbourne.
The unions are planning a major protest in Birmingham on July 27, at National Grid's annual general meeting. National Grid is a leading supplier of gas and electricity in Britain and the northeast region of the US. In an e-mail response to queries from Business Standard, a NG spokesperson said the company already outsources some information services support from India, from companies including Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and Zensar Technologies.
Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani confirmed the truce pact with Anil Ambani.
Making his ambitions clear, Ambani said the company is "well equipped to be a national leader".
A coming together of the brothers will combine their separate, complementary and equally formidable strengths: Mukesh can execute mega projects in record time and derive value from scale; Anil is deft with finance and all things related to consumers and brands.
Reliance Industries' annual general meeting on Friday will be unique in many ways. It's the first AGM after the Supreme Court judgment on K-G gas, the first after the truce between Mukesh and Anil Ambani and the first after the company's big-bang return to telecom.
There is nothing to be worried about as bilateral ties are robust with solid foundations. Both are on the same page on the economic and defence/security ties bilaterally and globally and that shall continue irrespective of change in political dispensation in either country, points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
Total income for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, stood at Rs 31,204.5 crore, up by 22.1 per cent from Rs 25,549.7 crore for the quarter ended on March 31, 2018,
Rishad, who joined the company in July 2007, is currently chief strategy officer of the Bengaluru-based company.
Connor's nomination was announced by her predecessor, Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara, at the Annual General Meeting last year but she had to wait for a year to take charge due to COVID-19.
Vodafone Idea (Vi) is working on a fresh business plan that could alter its funding requirements. Addressing shareholder queries at the company's annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, Vi chairman Himanshu Kapania said the exact amount will be worked out upon submission of a new business plan. "The management is working on a new business plan and will come to the board with the funding requirements," Kapania told shareholders in his first AGM as chairman.
