AT&T has applied for a mobile licence in India in partnership with Mahindra Telecommunications, a local telecoms company, and Mr de la Vega said it was hoping to acquire spectrum for its wireless services.
Cairn India, which is 69 per cent owned by London-listed Cairn Energy, is very close to securing the vital approval it needs to begin work on the pipeline to transport the oil from its vast Rajasthan oil fields, the Indian government has said.
David Miliband, new British foreign secretary, told the Financial Times he is keen to improve ties with India.
Tony Blair will be US investment bank JPMorgan's part time political advisor.
Even as developing nations gear up for a big boom in carbon market, several projects registered with the UN carbon market regulator have drawn flak from various quarters.
Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, feels that after the successful launch of his dream project -- the Rs 1-lakh car -- will ideally be the nice time for him to retire from active business life, a media report said in London.
Arcelor Mittal will invest $20 billion to set up two steel plants in India, in Jharkhand and Orissa.
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Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, is reported to be investing $4-5 billion in the force
For the past few years the top brass at Pearson did pretty well to grapple with the threat of digital disruption.
Tsipras asked to keep a discount on value added tax for Greek islands, stretch out defence spending cuts and delay the phasing out of an income supplement to poorer pensioners
French dairy major Groupe Danone has offered to pay the Wadia Group euro1 million ($1.34 million) as compensation to use its Tiger brand in international markets.
The high-profile bidding war for control of Hutch-Essar could intensify with reports in the British media suggesting that Indian partner Ruias have received funding pledges worth up to $25 billion to buy out foreign stakeholder Hutchison Telecom.
The FT report said the existence, size and investments of the highly profitable internal trading fund, which was set up three decades ago, have until now remained largely unknown outside a circle of former and current insiders.
Former US Trade Representative and US Deputy Secretary of State, Robert B Zoellick (53), is said to be the frontrunner for the post of the next World Bank president, according to a report in the Financial Times.
United States technology companies have become the command and control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals, one of Britain's senior-most intelligence chiefs has warned and sought their cooperation in intelligence matters to tackle the menace.
The Financial Times, London, reports that Nobuo Tanaka, the first Asian head of the International Energy Agency, has stated that the organisation must work more closely with the two Asian giants.
The admission comes as it seeks to ensure approval of the deal by Indian regulators under restrictive foreign investment laws.
The Indian Institute of Mangement-Ahmedabad will collaborate with Duke Corporate Education to develop and deliver custom corporate education programmes in India and West Asia.
According to reports, the deal, if successful, could fetch Hutchison as much as $14 billion and would be Asia's largest private equity deal.
Luce conveys his sense of bafflement that a country of such contradictions should do so well in spite of the diversity or because of it.
Indian corporate house Essar has offered to buy out foreign partner Hutchison Telecom (HTIL) from the mobile joint venture Hutch-Essar for $11 billion (about Rs 50,000 crore), putting the enterprise value at $16.5 billion.
'It is vital that objects such as the Harihara -- and collections from South Asia generally -- remain here,' the British Museum tells Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
The world is moving faster than academic institutions
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has said the company could not give any guarantee over safety of jobs as it plans will be to make the UK operations more profitable.
ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank financial services provider, plans to employ up to 40,000 people annually over the next three to five years to meet the expected demand from the nation's booming banking arena, reports the Financial Times.
NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is considering relinquishing his controlling stake - a move that could lower the barriers to shareholders accepting his $22.1 billion
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Deutsche Bank, one of the leading international financial service providers, plans to move almost half of its back-office jobs to India by the end of next year, according to a media report.
John Elliott, the author of Implosion: India's Tryst with Reality, on his Riding the Elephant blog, says the sacking of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata and Sons was in line with Ratan Tata's personal style of dealing with executives
Here are some interesting points Vijay Mallya mentioned in the FT interview.
Lord Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, will visit India next month as part of a drive to attract brightest students from the country to help university compete with the better-funded US Ivy League colleges.
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