ITC Infotech, an IT services firm and a wholly owned subsidiary of tobacco-to-hotels conglomerate ITC Group, has acquired New York-headquartered Pyxis Solutions - a provider of quality assurance and testing services - for $25 million (around Rs 105 crore). This is its first all-cash acquisition in the last eight years, funded through internal accruals.
Out of 24,230 IIT and NIT grads, about 8,000 students didn't find any takers during campus placement drives this year.
New investors should gradually build a 5 to 10 per cent allocation to gold.
Lower reduction in fiscal deficit is to stimulate demand in a weak economic environment post demonetisation.
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, as well as Britain's Asia-focused Standard Chartered said they would try to support London's financial sector
Sixty such offers have been made on Day 1 of the placement drive.
The likes of Microsoft and Cohesity have offered crore plus salaries to some students.
Deighton's unpaid role will be to scale up production domestically, where brands like Barbour and Burberry have already switched factory lines from high-end fashion to PPE.
The B-school also witnessed new roles in the domain.
The institute has bagged 179 pre-placement offers so far, with the highest domestic offer at Rs 64 lakh per annum.
Google has emerged as top choice in the Top 100 Ideal Employer Rankings in a survey conducted among Indian management and engineering students.
On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer had won the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". The research conducted by them has considerably improved the ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics, which is now a flourishing field of research, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Here are some interesting facts about the Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee.
BPCL gained nearly 4% to Rs 674, while HPCL gained more than 2% to Rs 451.
This could become tricky territory for India, given its basically adversarial relationship with China, its moves to block imports and investment from that country, and to deny market access for Chinese technologies, observes T N Ninan.
Here are some facts about Rishi Sunak and his India connections.
'The group commands 85 per cent of the global GDP, and if you are able to convey your point of view effectively to this group then you have reached more or less all the important players that matter.'
The rating outlook change is relevant now, as the US Federal Reserve is set to end its monthly bond-buying programme in October.
Education technology, grocery, fashion, food delivery and UPI payments surpassed volumes or revenues of February, in the September-October period.
Changes in global oil and gas rates matter more to India's economy than other major economies because the country imports around 87 per cent of its oil, half of its gas in the form of LNG, and over 60 per cent of its LPG.
IIM Lucknow has concluded its 2020-21 final placements.
India Inc was, perhaps, watching out for a repeat of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s.
Sources said the spin-off, a joint venture company, was yet to be named.
IIT Roorkee has so far seen the highest domestic salary rise Rs 80 lakh, up by a third from Rs 60 lakh last year.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
Cohn served as Trump's chief economic advisor since the beginning of the Administration. During his stay at the White House, he led coordination of Trump's pro-growth domestic and global economic policy agenda, including the passage of historic tax cuts and reforms in December 2017, the official said.
Bandhan Bank has filed a draft red herring prospectus with Sebi for an IPO of up to 119 million equity shares, with face value of Rs 10 each.
Goldman-HDFC JV and OYO Hotels & Homes are betting big on student housing, says Raghavendra Kamath.
The acquisitions were made in areas which are closely related to Reliance's key businesses - telecom, internet, retail, digital, media, education, digital, chemicals and energy.
Recently, Slice, a payment app, acquired a 5 per cent stake in North East Small Finance (NESF) for $3.42 million - the first such deal by a fintech in a small finance bank. Slice (valued at $1.5 billion, and backed by Tiger Global, Blume Ventures and Axis Bank) will technically get a toehold in a scheduled commercial bank if NESF were to get a licence to morph into one down the line Such a transition is well within the banking regulator's declared framework. The transaction has to be seen in a larger context.
RIL, according to Goldman, offers the best downstream exposure in the Asian oil sector with its high quality asset base, diversified product portfolio, efficient management of inventory valuation swings and ability to fund large organic expansionary capex without taking on debt.
IITs anticipate COVID-19 restrictions to impact international offers being extended by global recruiters.
If Sachin Bansal sells his stake at a little over 5 per cent and steps down from Flipkart, as reports have suggested recently, either Binny Bansal or Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart, could be an option for the leadership position.
Focus on Berkshire's size has grown over the years as it has amassed more than 80 businesses
Gupta began serving a two-year prison term on insider trading charges in June 2014.
Surging value of dollar may be posing the biggest threat to US corporate earnings.