Firms/companies
Ford India doubles capacity with new $1-bn plant in Sanand; to launch Ford Figo Aspire
26 Mar 2015
The Ford Figo Aspire, a new sub-four-metre compact sedan, will be the first car to roll-out from the new plant
Spain’s BBVA denies offering any credit line to Sahara
26 Mar 2015
A rescue plan for Indian conglomerate Sahara was again scuppered on Wednesday after Spanish bank BBVA denied offering a credit line to the group, as Sahara had claimed.
BT makes re-entry into consumer mobile market
25 Mar 2015
Facebook denied Indian patent for crawler app
25 Mar 2015
RBI rejects Tata proposal to buy NTT DoCoMo stake
25 Mar 2015
RBI has conveyed that it cannot accede to a request which is not in conformity with the extant FEMA regulations, and has advised that any such purchase of shares should be at current fair value of shares
Flipkart says will create 2 mn jobs
25 Mar 2015
Google to launch easy online payment via Gmail this year
25 Mar 2015
Google is experimenting with a feature that will let its Gmail users receive and pay their bills directly from their email account
3G Capital in talks to buy Kraft Foods Group for over $40 bn
25 Mar 2015
The PE firm will carry out the acquisition through H.J. Heinz Co., which it acquired 2013 in partnership with Warren Buffett’s investment arm Berkshire Hathaway
Sun, Ranbaxy complete $4-bn merger
24 Mar 2015
On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India approved the issue of equity shares of Sun Pharma to non-resident holders of equity shares of Ranbaxy, facilitating the merger through a scheme of arrangement
L&T must shed weight, fix future head: chairman Naik
24 Mar 2015
At a Larsen & Toubro event in Mumbai to mark A M Naik’s 50 years with the company, the chairman frankly told unions that the firm must focus on its core strengths and cut outliers
ADB sees India growing faster than China at 7.8% in 2016-17
24 Mar 2015
ADB expects India's growth to improve from 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal to 7.8 per cent in 2015-16 and further to 8.2 per cent in 2016-17
Samsung launches Galaxy S6, S6 edge in India
23 Mar 2015
Sahara gets another 3 months to raise bail money for Subrata Roy
23 Mar 2015
The Supreme Court has allowed Sahara to sell 10 more properties in India to raise the Rs10,000 crore as the planned mortgage of its three overseas hotel properties is now estimated to yield only around Rs4,000 crore
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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