Holding company proposed with different businesses as divisions.

Another user of the data is the clinical diabetics' consortium, which aims to identify if there are specific genetic reasons for a particular ethnic group to be predisposed to the disease.

Around four months ago, GoAir had returned two aircraft to lessors as a part of its "dynamic fleet strategy" that involved inducting more aircraft in the peak season and letting go in the lean season.

Oil prices will soar if Cyclone Gonu halts shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the route for about a quarter of world crude supplies, but its impact will be temporary if oil facilities remain intact, experts said on Wednesday. Most

Major European companies are showing keen interest in utilizing the experience of Lebanese software engineers and programmers to make up for an acute shortage in the IT labor market, according to an industry consultant. "Large-scale telecommunication and gas companies from

Elements in the Pakistan Army" are backing the infiltration of militants into India across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, Army Chief General J J Singh said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan said on Wednesday the economy was witnessing 'cyclical overheating' but expected inflation to soften in coming months with good monsoon this year.

The government will soon announce a major liberalisation in foreign direct investment policy, hiking the threshold limit in many of the ground handling and support services to 100 per cent.

Sony India, a leading provider of consumer electronic products, today launched its High Definition (HD) digital imaging products, which include four new HD camcorders and three new cyber-shot digital cameras in India.

The government should exempt micro-insurance from payment of service tax to make products cheaper and encourage penetration of insurance services in low income rural and social sectors, a UN report has suggested.

Wind power major Suzlon Energy on Wednesday said it has bagged a contract from California-based Edison Mission Group for supply of 300 turbines.

Visa group will invest Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) for setting up a 1000-MW mega thermal power plant in Orissa and also engage in all-India power trading, diversifying from steel.

Cash-rich Gulf countries are expected to pump US$ 102 billion investments into the Indian real estate sector in the next ten years, a growth of about 630 per cent from the present US$ 14 billion, a report by Kuwait Investment

India has asked Russia to ease its 'cumbersome and outdated' visa procedures to facilitate travel for businessmen as part of measures to enhance bilateral trade and investment ties.

Late last month the Barwa Real Estate Company signed a $530 million Mudharaba contract with the Al Rayan Bank - the second such Islamic finance facility agreed between the two firms so far this year, with Al Rayan having drawn

Internet, which for years now has helped link people through e-mails, chat rooms and matrimonial services, will now enable those with similar tastes to come together and share their gourmet preference.

As part of measures to curb unsolicited commercial calls, the government asked telemarketing companies on Wednesday to register themselves with telecom service providers and with the department of telecommunication.

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India is expected to soon allow trading of securitised debt instruments or certificates on stock exchanges, a move that will give a boost to the country's debt market.

India is emerging as a forerunner in using the cellphone as a tool to access the Internet, with one in every 11 people logging on to the web across the world through mobiles turning out to be an Indian.

How could we have been so wrong? Nothing but love for these tech moguls, then and now.