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Akhil Gupta to step down from Blackstone India daily ops

Global private equity major Blackstone today said Akhil Gupta, who founded and led its operations in India for eight years, will step into a non-executive role.

The strategist at Bharti

Bharti Airtel plan $2 bn expansion

Bharti Airtel, India's largest private cellular operator, on Thursday announced an investment of over $2 billion (Rs 9,000 crore) in 2007-08 to expand network.

Vodafone abstains from Bharti board meet

Bharti Airtel on Tuesday welcomed the decision of the directors of Vodafone to abstain from its board meeting, in view of the UK-based telecom major's interest in acquiring rival Hutch-Essar.

Bharti to merge cell, fixed-line divisions

If Sunil Mittal does not succeed...

He likes to try and try again, as the renewed merger talks with MTN have demonstrated.

Bharti plans to raise $500 million

Taking advantage of liberalised norms for external commercial borrowings to raise upto $500 million through the automatic route, Sunil Mittal-promoted Bharti Group is planning to tap the overseas market next fiscal.

Bharti to spend $800 mn on Zain Africa this fiscal

Bharti Airtel will spend up to $800 million (about Rs 3,565 crore) this fiscal on setting up infrastructure network for its new acquisition Zain Africa.

Bharti Tele plans $850m expansion

Major rejig at Airtel; CEO Vittal becomes more powerful

Within a year of Gopal Vittal becoming the joint MD and CEO of Bharti Airtel's India operations, the company has elevated him as the MD and CEO for Bharti Airtel's operations in India and South Asia.

E-commerce boom spells doom for big retailers

The threat may be a decade away, but it has brick-and-mortar sellers rethinking their strategies and banking on the govt to regulate online companies.