Recently added articles from The Times of India (New Delhi, India):
ATF burden makes air travel costlier.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Saurabh Sinha Oct. 2--NEW DELHI -- Flying within the country is becoming more and more expensive. With PSU oil companies hiking aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices by 4.2 percent on Monday, most domestic airlines have decided to raise the fuel surcharge by Rs 100. Now the ...
Rasna eyes S African beverage brand.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--AHMEDABAD, India -- After having got a taste of overseas markets through exports, homegrown soft drink concentrate major Rasna is working up an appetite for overseas acquisitions. And on its menu is a beverage brand in South Africa, which Rasna is learnt to be close to lapping up ...
Genpact buys Citi BPO for $700m.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--MUMBAI/BANGALORE, India -- India' largest BPO company and the NYSE-listed Genpact is said to have won the race to buy out Citi group's call centres in India. The deal was clinched after a week of final negotiations for around $700 million, according to industry sources. ...
Maha's special economic zones greater than entire Greater Mumbai area.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Nauzer Bharucha Oct. 2--MUMBAI, India -- The state's special economic zones (SEZs) put together constitute a greater land mass than the entire area of Greater Mumbai, according to calculations done by TOI based on official government figures. Spread over 437 ...
Exporters frame smart plans to cope with biting rupee.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--NEW DELHI -- Exporters may be crying hoarse over adverse impact of the rising rupee against the dollar but the most vocal sections -- who also happen to be the bigger players -- are working on strategies to reduce the impact on profitability. M Rafique Ahmed -- whose ...
PSU-groomed talent excels in T20.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--NEW DELHI -- If there were any prizes for spotting talent early then the public sector undertakings would win hands down. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, IndiaOil, Bharat Petroleum and Air India -- formed by merging AI, the international carrier, and Indian Airlines -- between ...
Corrosion costs India Rs 1.25L cr a year.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Amrita Nair-Ghaswalla Oct. 2--MUMBAI, India -- Birla Cellulose spends over Rs 2 crore per year on painting its sites. So does Bharat Heavy Electricals. What do the two have in common with Bandra Worli Sea Link and the old Vashi bridge in Mumbai? All face the problem of ...
Marico leads race for South Africa's Enaleni.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Namrata Singh Oct. 2--MUMBAI, India -- Marico is said to have emerged the front runner in the race to acquire the consumer products division of South African company Enaleni Pharmaceuticals. Sources said Marico's bid had been shortlisted by Enaleni because it ...
Pre-placement offers for IIM students touch new highs.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--MUMBAI, India -- During the placement season in March 2006, Bangalore-based software company Reach Technologies pitched hard to hire some students from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), offering starting salaries of over Rs 8 lakh per annum. Yet, Reach, which ...
AT&T joins telecom licence rush.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--NEW DELHI -- Amid the rush for licences to provide telecom services, global giant AT&T entered the game, as it knocked on government's door for offering mobile, fixed and broadband connections in India. AT&T, which has teamed up with Mahindra Telecommunications Pvt Ltd, ...
Ruia picks up 30% stake in Malaysian company.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--KOLKATA, India -- Pawan Kumar Ruia, who owns Dunlop and Jessop & Company, has finally achieved his goal of making an overseas acquisition. Ruia has bought 30 percent in Malaysian firm Industronics Berhad for an undisclosed sum. Industronics manufactures display boards, ...
India posting: Expat bosses lovin' it.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--BANGALORE, India -- India, for many, is still a land of poor roads, potholes, foul air, tortuous traffic and whimsical power supply. But surprise, surprise! Most of those growing numbers of expatriate CXOs coming to India to work, love it here. Some go so far as to say it's the ...
JetLite to seek nod for Gulf flights.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Oct. 1--NEW DELHI -- Jet Airways' low-cost arm, Air Sahara-turned-JetLite, will this week apply for flying rights to the lucrative Gulf sector. The Centre had recently allowed Jet Airways to fly to four destinations in the Gulf from January 1, 2008. Once JetLite also gets the nod, Jet will ...
CM gifts airport to father's constituency.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Saurabh Sinha Oct. 1--NEW DELHI -- Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswami -- who is yet to make up his mind on giving up his post on October 3 -- has tied up with a private developer to develop one of the biggest airports in India in his father HD Deve Gowda's constituency of ...
Khodays to bring Kaltenberg beer.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Anshul Dhamija Oct. 1--BANGALORE, India -- Major global beer brands are looking to enter India. German beer brand Kaltenberg is said to be in negotiations with Khoday India to sell its brand here on a royalty basis. Sources close to the deal said Khoday ...
B-school students cut their teeth on stocks.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Hemali Chhapia Oct. 1--MUMBAI, India -- The money managers of tomorrow are undergoing baptism by fire. Across the country, B-school students are now managing funds put down by classmates and alumni to learn the tricks of real-time investing. Be it the ...
Billion dollar question: Will AI buy A-380 or Boeing 747-800?
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Saurabh Sinha Oct. 1--NEW DELHI -- After reviewing future traffic growth, Air India has decided to order the biggest passenger aircraft that are capable of flying over 550 travellers on the busiest global routes. The two planes that fit into this category are the A-380 ...
Homegrown brands continue to rule the roost.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Rupali Mukherjee Oct. 1--NEW DELHI -- Homegrown brands have stood their ground despite the onslaught of competition from multinationals and some have even attained numero uno status in their respective segments. Having survived for over three to four decades, ...
TimesofMoney is now Times Financial Services.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Oct. 1--MUMBAI, India -- TimesofMoney, the leading financial services provider of the country and the pioneer in online money transfers, will now be known as Times Financial Services. The company recently unveiled its new corporate identity -- Times Financial Services (TFS). On ...
Indian brain to guide GE's innovation drive.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Neelima Mahajan Oct. 1--MUMBAI, India -- It's another feather in the cap of Indian academia. Vijay Govindarajan, the Earl C Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at Dartmouth Colleges Tuck School of Business, will soon join General Electric (GE) as professor in ...