The growing fear among software professionals is of getting infected while travelling to work in buses or cabs. And so, many IT-BPO firms have allowed their people to work from home if it fits their job profile. Some are planning to hire laptops to encourage employees to stay at home and work.
Flood insurance denotes the specific insurance coverage against property loss from flooding. The protection offered by most policy covers losses incurred due to some failure at the home itself.
The Aditya Birla Group company has already spent over Rs 3,000 crore on projects to take its production capacity from 17 million tonnes to 21.9 mt and plans to further scale up till 23.1 mt by June-end. K C Birla, chief financial officer, said, "We will continue to maintain our market share and, if required, we will go ahead with more capacity additions to ensure we don't become a loser in the market."
In the era of technology-driven crime, when stolen money and intellectual property can be digitally transmitted in seconds, corporates are often handicapped while investigating frauds that occur in other countries, says a survey.
Ajit Motwani of Sharekhan picks some smallcap stocks with potential. Motwani likes Ratnamani Metals, WS Industries and Transport Corporation of India.
The former navy commander, who resigned and joined the US-based software company, allegedly introduced US diplomat Rosanna Minchew to "contacts" in the NSCS.
Welspun-Gujarat Stahl Rohren has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture company with US-based Lone Star Technologies for manufacturing spiral welded tubular products for the oil and gas industry.
The Indian ace beat Armenia's Levon Aronian in the final.
The Indian leg of the Manchester United Premier Cup (MUPC), for under-15 footballers, will kick-off at the Cooperage ground in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Cambridge-based technology firm ARM would expand its operations in India and expects its design centre in India to grow the fastest in the world, a senior company executive said on Friday.
The birds will fly at a speed of about 1.5 km per minute. They will cover about 950 kms and reach Chennai on Friday evening.
He admitted that around six grams of ganja had been found in one of his bags. "But honestly speaking, I have no clue as to how they landed in my bag."
Rediff.com has launched a subscription based online service, Rediff Radio, which will offer radio jockey-hosted shows and on-demand streaming music across 30 popular genres.
'It all started after the demolition of Babri Masjid... the Taliban were angry and took out their anger at Hindu and Sikh religious structures,' an afghan refugee in Delhi said.
Investors say they see large companies going through the grind, as their promoters struggle with liquidity because they are levered up at the holding company level and are starting to get margin calls thanks to the crashes in the stock market, and in the next six months, the targets that will come up for PE companies will make for a harvest season like never before.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Cash-&-carry chains claim of the products they sell 85-90% is local.
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