The delegation was to meet with business and government leaders both in New Delhi and Mumbai, coinciding with the Innovative Technologies for manufacturing Expo 2009, an international B2B exhibition and conference, India's largest trade show focusing in agro& food processing, auto components and chemicals and fertilizers as well as electronics and electrical engineering.
Many financial sector reforms suggested by the Percy Mistry Committee may not figure in Budget 2008-09.
Banks may be claiming that they are pruning their real estate exposure but data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) paints a completely different picture.
South Africa have included the world's number one test bowler Vernon Philander in their preliminary 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 tournament to be played in Bangladesh in March and April next year.
Jet Airways, SpiceJet, Kingfisher and other airlines have told the government that they would curtail services frequency and air routes to cut losses after oil companies raised the prices of aviation fuel.
The fact that the government has no specific deadline to impose this policy was revealed through a response to an RTI application in February 2017.
Before the selectors meet again to finalise the squad, you can take on the role and pick 15 players from the 30-member probables list you feel are best to represent the country at the 2015 World Cup.
'They want (the ownership and management of PSU banks) to pass into the hands of a private sector entity.' 'Ownership of these banks will go from the public sector to private sector.'
Petroleum Ministry is considering cutting down the number of independent directors on board in an oil PSU to 33%.
Whether it took the corona crisis to bring about the transformation, or otherwise, the change ought to be welcome, notes Virendra Kapoor.
According to the World Health Organisation, 10 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 are in the clinical evaluation and 126 are in the pre-clinical stage.
The move may be part of Budget 2008-09, a senior government official said.
Goalkeeper Adrian D'souza was also included in the squad for the six-nation Champions Challenge tournament.
Pat Welch, managing director, Allergan, was in India to promote Botox, the miracle cure for face wrinkles.
'If the almost literally heart-stopping Suez block has any positive outcome, it is to be hoped that it will accelerate the setting up of a fab (perhaps Taiwanese) in India,' asserts Rajeev Srinivasan.
A clampdown on fresh personal loans, credit cards and auto loans is taking a toll on direct selling agents hired by banks to push these products. According to estimates, banks have reduced the number of DSAs by 15-25 per cent, while marketing expenses are 35-40 per cent lower.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will finalise a shortened 2011 one-day World Cup format and a successor to chief executive Malcolm Speed at a two-day board meeting starting in Dubai on Monday. The top decision-makers of the governing body will also discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe cricket and consider an independent audit that has been undertaken into the game's board there, an ICC release said on Saturday.
Falling demand compels domestic carriers to slash capacity by 10 per cent.
The Wadia family-owned GoAir, the country's smallest low-cost carrier, has decided to retrench 10 per cent of its staff. This, it hopes, will help prune its wage bill by 40 per cent -- a clear indication that the axe will fall on several senior-level jobs.
The fuel from the KG basin will prune Rs 114,000 crore (Rs 1,140 billion) from the country's import bill. The price of $4.2 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) approved by the government for selling gas implies potential savings of about Rs 85,000 crore (Rs 850 billion) for consumers, said Ambani. Ambani's statement on gas pricing comes even as the government is considering a revision of the floor price of $4.2 mBtu that was approved in September 2007.
The wedding, which is billed as the India Inc's most expensive yet, was held at Antilla.
The wedding will take place in Delhi.
Nepali labourers are not only the backbone of the state's apple economy but also part of the highly grounded manpower in the orchards, setting an example for other states struggling with the migrant labour question, reports Ashwani Sharma.
Leaders of the Indian industry are worried over the way the agricultural issue, which calls for pruning farm subsidies by the rich nations, is being handled at the ongoing global trade talks.
A list of 22 probables was announced for the women's hockey Olympic qualifying tournament to be held in Russia.
Chidambaram, who is also senior spokesperson of Congress, said at the AICC briefing.
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said that tax exemptions will be pruned further and phased out eventually and that the controversial Banking Cash Transaction Tax will be reviewed next year.
Market regulator asks bankers to use real time gross settlement system for IPOs.
Free rides on toll roads for the country's VIPs might soon be over. The government is coming up with a new toll policy which might prune the long exemption list of VIPs who do not have to pay toll on national highways.
The list of 30 probables will be have to be pruned to 14, a month before the event's commencement on September 11.
There is no clarity on the number of players in the auction pool because the deadline for franchises to prune the original list has been deferred to February 4.
Sellers downloading their monthly financial reports were served with those of other vendors, leading to a breach of competitive businesses data.
Junior shooters deliver 2 gold, 1 silver for India at world championships
"Now that they have cut the branches of the tree, the ghost will cut short Nitish Kumar's rule," Prasad told reporters in an informal chat at 10, Circular Road, the new residence of his wife, Leader of Opposition Rabri Devi.
He talks about issues such as his company's plans to set up a manufacturing plant in India, the possible pruning of its work force and the increasing rural penetration in the country
India has offered further pruning of its negative list of 560 items for Association of South East Asian Nations on which there will be no duty cuts
Agencies had earlier prepared a list of about 37 industrialists, whom they considered vulnerable, but later pruned it to 25 and submitted it to the home ministry last week.
The time for experiments is over, Harish Kotian points out.
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