The country's largest two-wheeler manufacturer Hero Honda on Monday announced that it has hiked prices of its products between Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, owing to increase in input costs. Hero Honda Managing Director Pawan Munjal told reporters in New Delhi that the company had been trying to absorb rising commodity prices, but it has reached a stage where it needed to pass it to the customers. Models like Splendor Plus, Passion Plus, CBZ and Hunk will see price hike.
Indian businessmen on the forum would also include Baba Kalyani of Bharat Forge, Sunil Kant Munjal of Hero Honda, Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Vikram Kirloskar of Toyota Kirloskar and Deepak Parekh of HDFC.
'Indian entrepreneurs became traders for Chinese goods rather than producers of goods.'
He possessed an IQ of 180, higher than Albert Einstein's, but his life and career took unexpectedly bizarre routes. Dhruv Munjal salutes the strange genius of Bobby Fischer.
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The WEF meeting is crucial because of its theme encompassing globalisation at the time of rising nationalism and trade war, and the fourth industrial revolution due to rapid strides being made in robotics and artificial intelligence.
The New Year could well end up being the year of organised retailers.
For teams that work on projects to make art, culture and travel accessible to the differently-abled, the experience of seeing faces light up is reward in itself.
IDFC believes that for a sustainable 8% annual growth in GDP, Indian roads need to keep pace with a 9% growth.
In a statement, Fortis said under the accepted offer, IHH would infuse Rs 4,000 crore through subscription to the preferential allotment at a price of Rs 170 per share. The Malaysian firm will then make a mandatory open offer to public shareholders for 26 per cent of the outstanding shares post issuance.
No one would have dreamt then that, in the space of a generation, Delhi would be challenging Mumbai to become the country's business capital.
Hero Cycles, part of Rs 11,000 crore Hero Group conglomerate, is now all set to foray into 'mini motor cycle' segment with the launch of engine-driven bicycle 'Cyclomoto' next month.
The analysis covers BSE 200 Index's 171 companies for which data on the compensation to the boards of directors for FY14 and FY13 are available.
With over 45 healthcare facilities and over 300 vibrant diagnostic centres, Fortis is India's second-largest hospital chain -- next only to Apollo, which has 64 hospitals with 10,000 beds. Therefore, any international or domestic hospital chain that buys Fortis will simply catapult to the numero uno position.
So far, no insurance company in India has come up with a long-term policy on health insurance
The Confederation of Indian Industry and its Lao counterpart have agreed to cooperate in industrial and technological advancement, exchange professional experience and information about economic and commercial matters of the two countries.
Hero Exports, the international trading arm of Hero group, has opened shop in China to source cheap bicycle components for exporting it to developing countries, a senior executive of the company said.
Hero Honda, the world's largest two-wheeler company, is scouting for a partner for its proposed foray into the four-wheeler segment.
Two-wheeler major Hero Honda on Wednesday announced launch of its first scooter 'Pleasure' which would hit the market by mid November.
'Few athletes are ever able to win his admiration; he mostly relegates them to the status of worthless imbeciles,' says Dhruv Munjal.
Japan's Honda Motor Company on Wednesday renewed its technical collaboration agreement with Hero Honda Motors for ten years.
It's important to note that most of the celebrities who were approached are yesteryear stars, over the hill and seemingly forgotten.
The brain may be sharp as ever, but the legs seem heavier, the pace worryingly slower. He's still only 32, but the strain of a decade-and-a-half of paranormal activity on the pitch may just be piling up.
This is reportedly the first time that the names recommended by a search committee have been shot down by the HRD ministry
Indicating willingness to take any of its competitors head-on for maintaining its leadership position in the motorcycle market, Hero Honda on Thursday said it could cut margin albeit as the last option if situation demanded.
Hero Honda announced on Monday the launch of its fuel-injection technology motorcycle Glamour FI, whose prices start from the range of Rs 49,990.
To further boost bilateral economic ties with the US, Confederation of Indian Industry would organise a series of road shows, 'IndiaConnect-USA', from April 8-18.
The government on Tuesday asked the industry to make its stance clear on the issue of reservations in private sector.
Bike market leader Hero Honda has chalked out a Rs 320 crore (Rs 3.2 billion) investment plan for 2006, which includes about Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) for setting up a third plant, Pawan Kant Munjal, managing director said.\n
Domestic motorcycle market leader Hero Honda Motors on Monday said it would foray into scooter manufacturing and launch two motorcycle models this fiscal.
It currently has invested in 35 locations, some of which border on a luxury level format and are large at 2,500 square feet.
His latest recreation, Manoj Tiwari's Rinkiya Ke Papa, has garnered over 3.5 million views on YouTube in just two weeks.
Confederation of Indian Industry on Thursday cautioned that agricultural growth could be negative two per cent, which in turn will pull down gross domestic product growth in 2004-05 if the monsoon continues to play truant for the next two weeks.