Hutchison Telecom, the Hong Kong- based mobile major, on Tuesday said its first-half profits ended June have risen from the sale of its Indian assets to UK's Vodafone that included a one-time gain of Hong Kong dollars 69.3 billion.
With clients increasingly looking at cost optimisation by passing on the risks to the IT vendors and IT services players demanding longer tenure deals to hedge their risks, a mix of these two factors are giving rise to large deals coming up in the market with a lot of strings attached.
The acquisition of Executive Access (India) Pte Ltd would provide Hat Pin access to a large talent pool and complementary opportunities across its three existing brands, it said in a filing to the London Stock Exchnage.
Australia's beverage company Foster's Group Ltd has sold its brewing interests in India and Vietnam for $225 million, marking its exit from beer-making in Asia.
Arun Sarin is the chief executive officer of Vodafone Group Plc, the United Kingdom-based global mobile operator.
India's largest power generation company National Thermal Power Corporation on Tuesday embarked upon a major overseas fund raising exercise and decided to establish medium term note programme of $1 billion.
UCP, recently incorporated in the Isle of Man, announced on Friday that it has placed 360 million ordinary shares of one pence each (face value) through the IPO as it aims to invest in the Indian real estate sector.
Barclays Plc, UK's third-largest bank by assets, plans to enter the emerging credit card market in India.
The Indian arm of the UK-based retailer for expecting mothers and kidscare Mothercare Plc is on an expansion mode in India.
Corus Group Plc on Friday said it will list 46.8 million additional equity shares for trading on the London Stock Exchange.
The company had assets in countries like Yemen, Peru, Oman, Myanmar, Columbia, East Timor, Kurdistan and Australia, but it exited almost all these blocks later as part of its portfolio rationalisation
Together with Barclays-ABN Amro, about a half a dozen foreign banks such as Citigroup, HSBC and Standard Chartered could hire over 50,000 employees in India in the next three years.
Tata Steel on Tuesday said it will sell equity shares worth $2.3 billion in domestic and overseas markets, besides $6.1 billion in debt to fund acquisition of Anglo-Dutch firm Corus Group Plc.
Hirco Plc, a real estate investment firm floated by Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group,on Monday announced an investment of pound 47.9 million (about Rs 400 crore) to develop a township in Chennai.
Deutsche Bank in India has managed to avoid the bad-loan problems plaguing its rivals such as Standard Chartered Plc.
British bank Barclays Plc could jump into the league of top three foreign banks in India from 13 at present if it succeeds in merging its Dutch rival ABN Amro with itself in a deal that could create a combined entity worth $160 billion.
The brand image, however, may not tarish further as it will have already taken the beating due to consistent injury
Bouyed by Indian growth trajectories, Barclays plc on Tuesday said it would infuse $70 million in the country for a period of two years from 2006 to foray into the corporate banking business.
While it was technically not possible to block the deal, the tax department could resort to arm-twisting.
With a bid of 608 pence a share, Indian corporate giant Tata Steel outsmarted CSN's 603 pence a share offer during the night-long auction process.
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BPCL's impending privatisation and RIL's stake sale to Saudi Aramco raise questions about the future of the West Coast Refinery, once touted as the world's largest.
Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Life Sciences is to invest $63.2 million for a controlling stake in UK's biopharmaceutical company GeneMedix Plc.
Of the total 53,334 cases of frauds reported during 2008-09 and 2018-19 fiscal years, involving a whopping Rs 2.05 lakh crore, a highest of 6,811 cases were reported by the ICICI Bank.
ICI has divested two large businesses this year, and is sitting on a neat cash pile to focus on its core activities.
Corus Group Plc, on Wednesday reported a nearly three-fold jump in profit for the third quarter ended September, said it was awaiting a final offer from Brazil's CSN.
Post-cessation, activities related to the safe shutdown of the field are underway.
The stage appears set for a battle royale between Indian corporate giant Tata Steel and Brazil's CSN for acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus, with both the suitors reportedly willing to raise their bids.
Petronas of Malaysia has picked up about 10 per cent stake in Cairn India Ltd, the subsidiary of Scottish oil firm Cairn Energy Plc, that is to be listed on Bombay Stock Exchange by the end of next month.
Riding high on the recent success of pure-play real estate biggies in the Indian capital market, another realty firm is taking one step further by aiming to list on London Stock Exchange to raise about Rs 1,520 crore
The Nizam's descendants, Prince Mukarram Jah -- the titular eighth Nizam of Hyderabad -- and his younger brother Muffakham Jah, joined hands with the Indian government in the legal battle against Pakistan for possession of over around 35 million pounds lying with NatWest Bank plc in London.
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