Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked software graduates to give importance to communication skills in English besides a good technical knowledge as premier companies like Infosys looked for students with ability to communicate in English well.
Seven young students from different parts of the country had a wide-ranging discussion from bringing out Congress manifesto in Braille, setting up gender-neutral toilets to steps for removing inequalities in education system and caste discrimination in society with the Congress chief.
The BSE mid-cap Index will include shares of Allied Digital Services, Cals Refineries, Century Plyboards, Gammon Infra, Hindustan Oil Exploration, Indiabulls Securities, Jai Balaji Industries, Jet Airways, Jindal Drilling, Puravankara Projects, Rain Commodities, S Kumars Nationwide, Shriram City Union Finance, Thermax and Thomas Cook India.
Big conglomerates of Japan, including Mitsubishi Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, and Mitsui Group, are looking to both build and buy commercial properties in key Indian cities.
Kasliwal is accused of raping a 52-year-old woman on March 11.
Independent directors were supposed to safeguard the interest of all stakeholders.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) on Thursday said ten new players have applied for licences to enter into this fast growing sector.The Shriram group, Ranbaxy-promoted Religare Securities and real estate major DLF, have sought regulatory approval for entering the insurance sector, Muralidharan said.
A group of women calling themselves as the 'Consortium of Pub Going Loose and Forward Women' had decided to courier a 1,000 pink chaddis to the Shriram Sena office which is protesting against the Valentine's Day celebrations. Pramod Muthalik, founder of the Sri Ram Sena and also president of the Rashtriya Hindu Sena told rediff.com that they would retort by sending back a 1,000 sarees to these women.
ITC, Godrej Agrovet, DCM Shriram and other companies expanding in rural areas may eclipse the growth of their urban counterparts, including Reliance Fresh and the Future Group-owned Food Bazaar chain, helped by higher farm income that is spurring a boom in sales of fast moving consumer goods, consumer durables and apparel.
'One of the ways to do that is to ensure that NBFCs have got liquidity.' 'If we don't do that, this mood of gloom will continue.' NBFCs need to be provided with liquidity if they have to start lending.
DCM Shriram Industries , too, is issuing 700,000 warrants to its promoters, Tilak Dhar and his brothers, which will raise their shareholding from 32.54 per cent to 42 per cent, though this has been challenged in the courts by shareholder Harish Bhasin, who has mounted a takeover bid on the company.
"It can stay awake till midnight to hear the Yakub Memon case and it can extend the hearing of the Ram Janmabhoomi title case for three months, while crores of Indians wait for it."
The voting rights with the promoter will ensure the interests of the promoter family as well as minority shareholders are protected in future, said corporate governance advocates and corporate lawyers.
With liquidity crunch hitting operations, many finance companies have put the brakes on sanctions in the third quarter in the aftermath of the IL&FS crisis.
The big flops of the year -- Reliance Power and Future Capital Holdings -- are currently available at 25 per cent below their issue price. The other major post-listing losers include BGR Energy, Shriram EPC, J Kumar Infraprojects and KNR Constructions. Among the smaller issues, Precision Pipes and Profiles, Manaksia, and Porwal Auto Components are currently available at 50 per cent below their issue prices.
In September, Sebi had given a six-month extension to companies.
The actor and the tennis star reportedly met in Bangalore.
A steady demand environment, prudent debt management and faster absorption of office space gave them an edge over others.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
The new Honda Accord will be available in three types -- Accord 2.4, Accord 2.4 Elegance and Accord 2.4 Inspire. The price of the vehicles start from Rs 16,49,000 (ex-showroom Delhi) and go up to Rs 18,14,000.
Stockbroker Harish Bhasin has got Rs 22 crore stuck in the bid to take over DCM Shriram Industries, the Delhi-based sugar company. He invested the money to raise his stake in DSIL from 12.87 per cent to 25.05 per cent over the last five-and-a-half months. He bought DSIL shares from the open market. However, his open offer to buy 22.88 per cent stake has not taken off, pending an approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
A lump sum of Rs 100,000 has been offered under the VRS package.
Liquidity has improved, but 20 out of 24 NBFC stocks are staring at an over 5% reduction in 12-month target prices.
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
Chennai's Great Lakes Institute of management (GLIM) has equipped its students with some knowledge of Mandarin, Chinese history and culture.
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RBI has cut the rates thrice so far in 2015 by 25 bps each.
24/7 Customer, a $70 million BPO services provider, said that it planned to tap the capital market, but not in the immediate future.
Infotech firm Macromedia on Thursday said it would double its R&D headcount in India in the next nine months.
YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, SBI, IndusInd Bank, and RBL Bank are amongst the banks, Jefferies says, are most prune to "high risk" emanating from ADAG, Cox & Kings, CG Power, DHFL and Essar Shipping.
However, no refund of the premium will be given in case of cancellation of the ticket
Unlike bank FDs that are considered risk-free investments, NCDs do carry a certain amount of risk, primary among them is the risk of default, either servicing the interest payment or meeting their principal repayment obligations.
DLF Ltd has paid a whopping Rs 1,675 crore (Rs 16.75 billion) for 38 acres of land in west Delhi to DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd and the Lohia Group.
Apart from rail mishaps, the coverage would take care of terrorist attacks and accidental fall of a passenger from a train and normal accidents, riots, robbery and dacoity
All seems to be well with All Is Well. The film has taken its own time to reach the finishing line but fortunately for it, the music is doing some good talking, says Aelina Kapoor.
An initial reading of the guidelines indicates two factors - potential rise in borrowing cost and lower returns on investment book - could hit the spread of NBFCs.
Most listed corporate entities in the country are in a fix. With the sudden declaration in late March of a nationwide lockdown to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the final calculations of their financial results for the year 2019-20 (FY20) are hanging in limbo. Till April 19, only 41 of the 3,947 companies listed on the BSE have managed to finalise the dates for the declaration of their yearly financial results.
Japanese auto giant Honda Motors on Thursday said it was willing to divest its stake in Honda Siel Cars India Ltd to its domestic joint venture partner Siel Ltd.
