Firms/companies
Future Group to take Nilgiris supermarket store count to 1,000
22 Aug 2016
Nilgiris is also one of the oldest supermarket chains in India with origins dating back to 1905, and sells its own products among other brands
Pfizer in advanced talks to buy cancer drug specialist Medivation for nearly $14 bn
22 Aug 2016
A successful deal would be Pfizer’s biggest acquisition since it purchased biologic drug specialist Hospira Inc last year for about $17 billion
Urjit Patel appointed new RBI governor
20 Aug 2016
Urjit Patel as the first RBI governor to oversee interest rate decisions by a monetary policy committee (MPC), a six-member RBI-government joint panel, will, however, have less freedom in deciding monetary policy
Coca-Cola halts Dasna plant in UP amidst pollution probe
20 Aug 2016
Like elsewhere, Coca-Cola’s Dasna bottling plant also allegedly contaminates groundwater meant for farmers, pollutes the soil and discharges untreated sewage maligning the environment
Twitter suspends 235,000 accounts for supporting extremist causes
20 Aug 2016
Twitter on Thursday suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as the micro-blogging network continued to crack down on the use of its platform for extremist causes
Fortis splits hospital and diagnostics businesses
20 Aug 2016
Fortis will consolidate its hospital business under Fortis Healthcare and the diagnostics businesses under Fortis Malar in a demerger and merger process
Tata Motors likely to launch `Tiago ‘Plus’ in November: report
19 Aug 2016
Tata Tiago Sport producing 120bhp, which is in the making could rival Fiat Abarth Punto and the soon to come Baleno RS by Maruti Suzuki
Nestle claims Maggi noodles back as India’s No 1
19 Aug 2016
SBI board approves merger of 3 associate banks, BMB
18 Aug 2016
The merger of all five associate banks and the newly-created Bhartiya Mahila Bank (BMB) with SBI will create a banking behemoth with combined assets of over Rs37,00,000 crore
Cisco slashes 7% of global workforce
18 Aug 2016
While releasing its fiscal fourth-quarter financial results, Cisco said that it expects to start laying off employees from the first quarter, and take a charge of about $325 million to $400 million in the quarter
Moody’s keeps India’s growth forecast pegged at 7.5%
18 Aug 2016
While the outlook for India remains unchanged and China’s has been revised slightly upwards for 2016, Moody’s warns of uncertainty due to policy changes following the US presidential election
Tata Motors hikes Tiago prices by up to Rs6,000
18 Aug 2016
Telenor India pilots 4G in Warangal
18 Aug 2016
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