The board of Bharti Airtel approved the rights issue to raise up to Rs 25,000 crore through the issuance of fully paid up shares at a price of Rs 220 per share and to raise an additional Rs 7,000 crore via the foreign currency perpetual bond issue.
Troops of India and China were locked in a 73-day-long standoff in Doklam from June 16 last year after the Indian side stopped the building of a road in the disputed tri-junction by the Chinese army.
'One must remember that a dragon has a forked tongue,' warns Vivek Gumaste.
In this era of online commerce and virtual shopping, Raymond Ltd, one of India's oldest textile manufacturers and retailers, has tailor-made an offline strategy to maintain a strong foothold in the tier III and IV towns. Samreen Ahmad reports.
In a departure from the past, when IHCL adopted the organic route for entering markets like London and New York, this time around the expansion will be acquisition-led.
Mooting 'global sourcing' to deal with challenges faced by humanity, former President A P J Abdul Kalam has asked students to break geographic barriers and jointly focus on formulating strategies for priority areas like food, energy, water and healthcare. Over 500 students, faculty members, including R L Narayan, high commissioner of India, and other dignitaries attended the the 45-minute presentation on Thursday that stressed the importance of sharing knowledge.
Airtel said the amount will be used for refinancing its existing loan portfolio.
India says it cannot accept a project that ignores its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The $10.5 billion arms and equipment deal helped to arrest the recent drift in the 'special and privileged' strategic partnership, observes Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Reliance Industries on Friday unveiled five fundamental strategic shifts for growth, laying emphasis on acquisitions and partnerships for growth rather than the organic route.
If Walmart is spinning success stories of Indian manufacturers in global markets, Amazon is taking 'Make in India' to the world, bolstered by its 'Global Selling Programme'
'Chinese experts estimate that the new US administration is 'at the crossroads of how to re-manage and control' Sino-American differences and strategic divergences and Biden's bottom line is that the US would have 'extreme competition with China, but won't allow competition to develop into conflict',' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
GIC entered Indian real estate in 2005, when it did a deal with residential developer XS Real, a Chennai-based developer
'I have been managing people since I was very young. I really enjoy it.' 'For me, age is only a proxy for experience.'
'We will see a kind of disaster which the country has not seen in the last 100 years.'
2019, however, will be a bigger test as the firm continues to deal with rising attrition and margin pressure.
The group will be in a better position to now scale up most of its segments irrespective of government policy, but the bad news others add is its growing debt.
Prime Minister Modi needs to call Biden next month and clearly say: 'Mr President, the threat from China is clear and present. We, in New Delhi, have determined it to be an urgent national priority to outfit our submarines and aircraft carriers with nuclear propulsion and we want to cooperate with America on this programme",' advises Ajai Shukla.
EPIRUS Switzerland GmbH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston-based Epirus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
The management plans to invest Rs 27,000 crore in 2019-20, supported by savings of around Rs 14,000 crore that it expects to come from synergising operations of merged entities.
'We appreciate his positive evaluation of the relationship and share his optimism about its future directions.' 'We look forward to welcoming him in India next week for detailed discussions on further strengthening of our partnership,' the MEA said on Friday.
'India's preference today seems to be to exploit the deepening chill in relations with China to breathe new life into its meandering partnership with the US,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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The XLRI School of Management, Jamshedpur, has revised its set of courses in Economics for its Business Management students.
The commonalities of interests are immense for growth in trade between India and the US.
'Our equations with China require engagement and not confrontation; its interfaces with Pakistan and with some other South Asian neighbours also add to the complexities,' says Vice Admiral Premvir Das (retd).
'Islamabad receives billions in aid from the US but continues to harbour terrorists,' he said.
As part of the initiative, Planning Commission is organising a one-day conference on 'Building Infrastructure: Opportunities and Challenges' on October 7.
Their plan to build a product portfolio will discourage global software vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft and Fidelity, among others, from building a strategic relationship with these big Indian IT firms, reports Debasis Mohapatra.
'Tehran senses that the Modi government is inexorably gravitating toward the US-Israeli-Saudi axis, jettisoning India's traditional independent Gulf policies,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Aviva, UK's largest insurance company, is transferring over 5,000 third party BPO vendor staff to its offshore division, Aviva Global Services, over the next year. \n
The prime minister's meetings with Abe and Turnbull came a day after he held "very expansive" talks with US President Donald Trump on intensifying overall security and defence cooperation, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region where China is strengthening its military build up.
Under the deal, Lockheed will shift its Fort Worth, Texas plant to India without directly affecting American jobs.
"We often thought of terrorism as a peripheral problem for this region. The barbaric terrorist strikes in Paris, Ankara, Beirut, Mali and on the Russian aircraft is a stark reminder that its shadow stretches across our societies and our world, both in recruitment and choice of targets," Modi said in his remarks at the East Asia Summit.
Inspirational men's team captain P R Sreejesh and fast-rising drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh are the two Indians in contention for different honours at the FIH annual awards which will be given away in a formal ceremony for the first time, in Chandigarh on February 23.
In a Diwali bonanza to its customers, Vodafone India on Thursday said it has slashed data rates by up to 80 per cent across the country, with effect from November 1.
Automakers are caught in a chicken-and-egg situation: Prices have to come down if volumes are to increase, and volumes won't increase unless prices come down, notes Pavan Lall.
Telecom operators, including Reliance Jio, have been demanding "same service same rules" regime which means that mobile applications providing calls and messaging services should also be made to comply with set of rules that are mandatory for mobile service providers.
This move gives Airtel and Chinese major immense benefits.
'Analysts see BECA as a 'force multiplier' for India.' 'But China too is known to have such capabilities.' 'The military gap with China will continue to remain a fact of life, BECA notwithstanding,' argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar
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