New participants included Chinese players such as Great Wall Motors and Haima Automobile along with Olectra.
Bajaj Auto chairman Rahul Bajaj on Tuesday said his company could consider selling its holding in the Firodias-controlled Bajaj Tempo, now rechristened Force Motors.
CII will have a three-pronged approach. First, the chamber will concentrate on consumers and will urge companies to focus on the end users, says N Srinivasan.
India and EU on Monday agreed to resume stalled WTO talks immediately by adopting a flexible approach to narrow the differences on contentious issues like agriculture.
As part of its major expansion plans, ITC Ltd will build three new super deluxe luxury hotels in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion).
Poor infrastructure could result in a loss of $21 billion of investment to other competing countries in Asia and this was a major threat to the realisation of India's projected IT vision for 2008, a Confederation of Indian Industry paper has said.
The search operation was on to recover more missing persons by the army, the NDRF, the Sashastra Seema Bal and other rescue teams.
Piyush Goyal, who held the post of finance minister when Arun Jaitley was undergoing treatment, told the Confederation of Indian Industry's annual session: "All stakeholders, including the RBI, should introspect on their respective roles (on low economic growth)."
Singh said the country sought partnership for development even as it demonstrated to the world its ability and capability to stand on its own feet.
Industry had sought this 3-month extension, specifically for players struggling to collate the information that are required to be disclosed in the GST forms.
Ecommerce firms will have it tough as govt turns down FDI proposal.
India's power sector is looking up with as many as 11 state electricity boards having reported reduction in losses during the last two years and the public-sector companies increasing their recoveries
The Confederation of Indian Industry and ASEAN on Monday set up two task forces in pharmaceuticals and agriculture and food processing to prepare a strategy document to outline a roadmap for cooperation in these sectors.
India's services sector continued its high growth track during the first half of the current fiscal, according to the Confederation of Indian Industry-ASCON report. The cellular services recorded a growth of 180 per cent, a CII release said.
Communications Minister Arun Shourie on Thursday asked state-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd to make the optimum use of its huge cash reserves and aggressively explore foreign markets.
The Union tourism ministry has approved 51 hotel projects in South India, according to a Confederation of Indian Industry report.
It may help do away with the economic loss and inconvenience, but it also curtails the workers' right to air their grievance.