The founder chairman of the Mittal Group M L Mittal has said that time is ripe to invest in India as the government is opening up more and more sectors for private investment.\n\n
ArcelorMittal has identified land in Jharkhand for its steel plant. It is now awaiting necessary approvals.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has just been named the richest person in the UK for fourth year in a row, but when it comes to being a powerful businessperson, he lags behind four others in the British manufacturing industry.According to a list of 100 most-powerful business people in the UK's manufacturing sector released by the Daily Telegraph, India-born Mittal has been ranked fifth.
It was his nerves of steel and perseverance that helped the world's largest steel producer Laxmi Niwas Mittal clinch the $33-billion deal for Luxembourg-based Arcelor Steel despite hostility.
Money and power being "natural bedfellows" is not necessarily true in the British business world, except for steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal who figures right on the top of a new 'Richest Power List', compiled after combining two separate rankings of the most powerful and the most richest in the UK.
The government is likely to come out with 10 per cent stake sale offer of Oil India in the second fortnight of this month, followed by NTPC's issue in the first 14 days of February, a Finance Ministry official said.
A day after NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal jacked up his offer for rival Arcelor to euro 25.8 billion
A right-wing trade union movement in South Africa has launched a campaign to prevent Britain-based Indian origin steel baron Lakshmi Mittal's move to take control of two steel companies in the country.
"The company expects to break ground on one of the Indian projects 'before the end of 2009'," CNN quoted ArcelorMittal's London-based head of investor relations Julien Onillon as saying last week. The two identical projects are to come up in the states of Jharkhand and Orissa and would add 24 MT annual steel production capacity.
Even as the government today gave Saurabh Chandra, secretary, department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP), the additional charge of secretary, Department of Commerce, Dinesh Kumar Mittal has emerged as the front runner for the post.
Telecom powerhouse Bharti Airtel's boss Sunil Mittal donated $1 million (Rs 4 crore) on Wednesday for education of underprivileged children in villages.
Sanjay Hegde, the Karnataka counsel in the Supreme Court, said that this is the maximum punishment Mittal could attract if found guilty.
PIOs have also emerged among the most powerful businessmen of their respective sectors, led by the likes of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and telecom titan Arun Sarin. While Mittal, recently named UK's richest persons for fourth year in a row, has been identified as the fifth most powerful in the UK manufacturing business, Sarin has beaten all to grab the top slot in the 100 most powerful persons list for country's technology and telecom sector.
Other panelists of the 23-member council includes external affairs minister S M Krishna, City group CEO Vikram Pandit, NRI entrepreneur Karan Bilimoria, economist Jagdish Bhagwati, educationist Sam Pitroda.
Company says no project in Jharkhand without allotment of SAIL-owned Chiria mines.
The latest Fortune list is topped by Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs.
He likes to try and try again, as the renewed merger talks with MTN have demonstrated.
Mittal said his steel plants were getting gas at no less than $6 per million British thermal unit (mBtu), much lower than the $4.33 per mBtu price proposed by RIL.
Indian telecom czar Sunil Mittal and NRI businessman Anil Agarwal are among the four Indians featuring in the list of '48 Heroes of Philanthropy' compiled by business publication Forbes.
Aditya Mittal, the son of LN Mittal, the family that pulled off the audacious Arcelor acquisition just last year proves that a businessman of Indian origin can actually rule the world.
The Asia Society also honoured chairman and CEO of Citigroup Charles O Prince with the Leadership Award for his contribution to the financial sector.
People given to hyperbole would say that Gopal Vittal's rise at Bharti Airtel has been "meteoric". But in his case, superlatives could perhaps be forgiven. Here's why
Mittal Steel Company NV announced on Thursday an interim dividend of $0.125 per share for its European and New York Stock Exchange shareholders.
NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has earned a staggering 4.1 billion during the past one year and retained his position as the richest person in Britain in 2007 with a wealth worth 19 billion.
'YamaTough', the activist behind the 'Lords of Dharmaraja' hackers group, told Infosec Island, an information security Web site, 'Our goal is Bharti Mittal go off political arena and stop manipulating our government.'
As Vodafone started examining the books of Hutchison Essar, its existing partner Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has not been approached by anyone to buyout British telecom firm's stake in the company.
Bharti Enterprises will kick off its retail venture early next year, opening half-a-dozen stores -- branding of which is still being worked out with its back-end partner Wal-Mart.
ArcelorMittal on Tuesday said it has cut expenditure on research and development by 4 per cent.
Indian family-run business houses have in recent years seen ugly public spats between owners over control. But metals-to-ports conglomerate Essar's Ruia family seems to be an exception. Three generations of the Ruia family - founder brother Shashi and Ravi Ruia, their children and grandchildren - continue to live under one roof and jointly run the business empire.
The company is 'disappointed' with the progress made so far on its proposed 12-million tonnes per annum steel plant, each in Orissa and Jharkhand. It has rued the regulatory hurdles as well.
Speaking on the sidelines of an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, ArcelorMittal Design & Engineering Centre CEO Pierre Jonette said: "Our main objective is to bring down the total project cost by 20-22 per cent across all the green projects. We have internally decided to increase sourcing from local low cost destinations for most of our greenfield projects."
Google on Tuesday began reinstating about 250 Indian apps it had delisted from its Play Store over a billing dispute as it caved in to government criticism, but the squabble may not yet be over.
This correction in tariffs is required to compensate for the company's rural business.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear Bharti Cellular Limited CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal's plea challenging the March 19 order of the special court summoning him as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional 2G spectrum during the 2002 NDA regime.
Mittal Steel, the world's biggest steel manufacturer, which made a $28.7 billion bid for acquiring Luxembourg-based Arcelor, on Friday said it has received US antitrust clearance for the said bid.
Torpa is looking for a second chance to migrate from a poor village to a modern urban cluster but tension is building between those who want development and those against it. For two decades, National Hydel Power Corporation (NHPC) proposed, and some local tribal groups opposed, the setting up of the Koel-Karo hydro-electric project there, and it was finally abandoned last year.
ONGC-Mittal combine will invest more than $6 billion in setting up a refinery, power plant and railway lines in Nigeria.\n\n
