After slowing down in April and May, India Inc has raised a higher amount through external commercial borrowing and foreign currency convertible bonds route in June.
The three coal blocks on offer for the multi-billion-dollar coal-to-liquid projects have seen a rush of bids from public and private sectors. The ministry of coal has received 30 bids for the blocks that hold over 4 billion tonne of
The magnitude and size of the changes we face and will face are Everest in nature. For example, who could have imagined in early 2004 that later that year a company virtually unknown outside of China (Lenovo) would buy the
Alarmed by the likely fall in sugar production in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 crop marketing seasons, the politically influential sugar cooperatives of Maharashtra, have started taking position in leading commodity futures exchanges.
The US wants the Nuclear Suppliers Group process to be completed in August so that the US Congress can endorse the 123 agreement in September before Washington and New Delhi ink the bilateral civil nuclear cooperation agreement.
Fed up with the slow-moving federal government, America's local municipalities and states have recently launched many reform plans themselves, including health care and global warming.
India's rupee rose by the most in more than a decade on speculation global funds, who turned net sellers of local stocks this year, will stay invested after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a confidence vote yesterday.
The officials of commerce and finance ministries are expected to meet shortly to resolve the issue of 5-15% export duty on various iron and steel products entering into SEZs, imposed by the Central Board of Excise and Customs two months
The BJP has expelled eight MPs and the CPM has expelled Somnath Chatterjee. The CPM's decision is unconscionable. It had not respected the constitutional nature of Chatterjee's office and for it to now say that Chatterjee indulged in anti-party activities
Facebook is making sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials said recently.
A slowdown in travel triggered by higher air fares has hit online portals hard, with portals witnessing a close to 20% drop in airline business in the last 2-3 months.
International rating agency Moodys has said expectation that after winning the trust vote the UPA government will initiate key reforms may not come true as uncertainties pertaining to reforms persist, given the prevailing pressures and policy differences among its coalition
Punjab's oldest aviation club established in 1962 in Amritsar has got a fresh lease of life with securing ultra-modern four-seater Cessna 172R aircraft.
Under pressure after the airlines' move to impose 0% commission regime for air tickets, travel agents across the country have threatened to go on a strike in case their demands are not met.
It is a mixed bag on free trade. While agreements are being stalled in the US, across the other side of the globe the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are deep in free trade negotiations with Australia, New Zealand, the
The UPA win in the Parliament has added over Rs 2.55 lakh crore in investors' wealth in a single day after shares surged across the board on Wednesday amid celebration in the bourses on the government's second life.
Competition is hotting up in the $12 billion Indian real estate market with developers building skyscrapers and partnering with worldwide spas and engineering companies.
In barely two generations from now, going by the survey of energy resources of the World Energy Council, we may see a radically different power industry. Fossil fuels, which dominate today, are forecast to supply less than half our energy
The suburbs and exurbs of all our towns are witnessing a glitterati opening every day and malls are moving towards suburbs, tier II and tier III towns. Never mind recession, inflation and the presence of numerous other malls in the
A Parliamentary Committee has suggested that futures trading in farm products needs to be discouraged as it is leading to artificial rise in prices and not benefiting the Indian farmers.
