Though Google's investment is minuscule and will not move the needle, it will attract other investors to the company and be a morale booster. Pursuing Vodafone Idea would potentially pit Google against Facebook and an increasingly dominant Jio.
Aditya Birla group's Idea Cellular has signed a deal to acquire 40.8 per cent stake in Spice Communications for Rs 2,716 crore (Rs 27.16 billion).
The company is also looking at recruiting employees from outside India, especially for services and expertise that people in India lack.
The notification allows farmers to directly sell fresh produce to consumers, rather than through agriculture produce marketing committees.
A major top management level churn is on in the country's financial services space, with the Aditya Birla group emerging among the biggest beneficiaries of this shake-out as it has attracted a large number of executives from other companies.
The RBI is expected to issue only a few bank licences after completing due diligence.
After making handsome profits on Biba and AND, the homegrown retailer plans a string of similar investments.
Why Sumant Sinha, chairman & CEO, ReNew Wind Power sees value in the renewable energy business.
In the wake of the tussle between the Birlas and Rajendra S Lodha over the will of Late Priyamvada Birla, chartered accountants firm Lodha & Company said it was not seeking re-appointment as auditors of Indo Gulf Fertilisers Ltd.
S Ramadorai, Tata Consultancy Services CEO, been selected the Business India Businessman of the Year 2004.
Industry leaders on Thursday mourned the death of Ratan Tata saying with his demise India has lost a visionary who shaped its industrial and philanthropic landscape. Tata was a truly remarkable business leader who placed the country before business interests, and whose vision was truly transformational for a country and its people, TVS Motor Co Chairman Emeritus Venu Srinivasan said in a statement. "Mr Tata was a truly remarkable business leader, the likes of whom nations get only once in a century," he added.
"If we are not getting anything then I think it is end of story for Vodafone Idea," Kumar Mangalam Birla said at the HT Leadership Summit when asked about the future of Vodafone Idea in absence of a government relief on payment of Rs 53,038 crore dues.
Novelis is expected to come out with its March quarter earnings on Friday and a decision on its rating will follow soon after.
CEOs point fingers at rural job guarantee and related govt welfare schemes; say mechanisation an increasingly viable option.
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Reliance, Birla Group, Airtel eye small finance banks.
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
As the FM said, this is a Budget that lays the foundation for the next 25 years, observes Kumar Mangalam Birla.
Micky Jagtiani, owner of Landmark, the unlisted Dubai-based retail chain, has entered the list of 10 richest Indians compiled by Bloomberg.
India's largest cement firm, Ultratech Cement, has joined the race to acquire the Holcim stake in Ambuja Cements and its subsidiary, ACC. UltraTech - part of the Aditya Birla Group - submitted a non-binding bid on Wednesday. Swiss multinational Holcim, which manufactures building material, is exiting India by selling its 63.19% stake in Ambuja Cements. According to banking sources, UltraTech has submitted a plan to Holcim, outlining divestiture details that would meet the norms set by anti-trust body Competition Commission of India.
Promoter shareholders -- Vodafone Group and Aditya Birla Group -- have reiterated to the board that they intend to contribute up to Rs 11,000 crore and up to Rs 7,250 crore, respectively, amounting to a total of Rs 18,250 crore, as part of the Rs 25,000-crore rights issue.
VCs have been especially bullish about India.
'Birla only made representations to then PM for coal blocks allocation.'
In the two weeks since the terror attacks in Mumbai, most of the large Indian business groups in the city have been conspicuous by their absence in offering help to terror victims.
Chartered accountancy firm Lodha & Co has resigned as statutory auditor for Grasim Industries Ltd, a Aditya Birla group company, and city-based G P Kapadia & Co has been appointed as sole statutory auditors for the firm.
Raman's hacking expertise is much in demand -- and not from criminal elements. Indian firms and multinationals like ABN Amro Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Bank of Maharashtra, Bombay Dyeing, HSBC, ICICI Bank, Indiabulls, Centurion BOP, Citibank, India Infoline, Ispat Industries and Kotak Group proactively seek his services. Raman's hacking expertise is much in demand -- and not from criminal elements.
A large part of the current slowdown can be attributed to the execution bottlenecks and falling investor sentiment in the country, says Ajit Ranade, Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group.
Four years after buying Novelis, a company three times its size, Hindalco is now banking on the Atlanta (US)-headquartered aluminium rolling and recycling major to fund its Rs 23,000-crore expansion plan in India.
TV Today stock rises 15.23% on sale buzz
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Sources said one would have to reinforce the building foundation to adjust the weight of helipad and helicopter if helibase is built on rooftop with concrete.
Did top Indian business groups miss the e-commerce opportunity by focusing on replicating the Walmart model instead of following the Amazon model of online shopping?
Market worth has risen to half that of Airtel and double that of RCom.
The merged entity would be known as 'Vodafone Idea Ltd'.
Top HR minds in India, including Santrupt Misra of Aditya Birla Group, Satish Pradhan of Tata Sons, P Dwarakanath of Max India, Aquil Busrai (ex-IBM India) and Price Augustine of Mahindra & Mahindra and Pankaj Bansal of People Strong were among those who brainstormed with Maruti Suzuki India chief operating officer (administration) S Y Siddiqui last week.
Various corporate houses and private banks, including Aditya Birla Group, Hindustan Lever, Sahara Group, Bank of America, ANZ Grindlays, ICICI Bank, ABN Amro and HSBC
