AGE CORRESPONDENTS
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar
Oct. 5: ArcelorMittal on Monday threatened to move its proposed steel plants from Jharkhand and Orissa in case land acquisition continues to prove difficult.
"The company continues to work on its two greenfield projects in…
Tagged as: business, finance, greenfield projects, India, land acquisition, steel plants
Age Correspondent
Mumbai
Oct. 5: Trading on the Bombay Stock Exch-ange (BSE) will get cheaper from Wedne-sday with the exchange introducing a new transaction fee structure for its cash equity segment.
For instance, for passive orders, which are defined as…
Tagged as: bombay stock, business, finance, India, international investors
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Oct. 2: GE is merging all its standalone businesses and manufacturing plants in the healthcare segment in India into its joint venture with Indian IT giant Wipro—-Wipro GE Healthcare.
GE owns 51 per cent in Wipro…
Tagged as: business, finance, ge healthcare, healthcare segment, India
New Delhi, Oct. 2: Officials have objected to replacement of the word "charitable" with "welfare" for tax relief purposes in the new Direct Taxes Code (DTC), saying it could lead to misuse of concessions that are aimed at encouraging people…
Tagged as: business, finance, income tax act, India
Istanbul, Oct. 2: The global economy is on unsteady legs, the World Bank warned on Friday, saying that 2010 would be "a highly uncertain economic year" as other signals took the gloss off talk of a quick recovery.
The warning…
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New Delhi, Oct. 2: NRI billionaire, Mr Lakshmi Mittal, who has created the world’s largest steel empire through a slew of takeovers, is gearing up to restart doing what he is best at — that is mergers and acquisitions.
"We…
Tagged as: business, economic downturn, finance, India, merger and acquisition, mergers and acquisitions, steel plants
Mumbai, Oct. 2: The 14,000-crore Indian film industry lost a whopping Rs 3,000-4,000 crore in the last fiscal to rampant video and music piracy, a top production house official said.
"The film industry incurred a revenue loss of Rs 4,000…
Tagged as: business, finance, India, indian film industry
Olga Tellis
Mumbai
Oct. 2: The Grasim board, which is meeting on Saturday to approve the restructuring process of the company, is expected to announce the formation of a 100 per cent subsidiary to which it will offload its cement…
Tagged as: business, cement industry, cement production, finance, India
Age Correspondent
Bhubaneswar
Oct. 2: A petition has been filed in the Orissa High Court challenging the appo-intment of Mr A.K. Srivastava as the chairman cum managing director (CMD) of National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco).
In his petition, a shareholder…
Tagged as: business, finance, India
New Delhi, Oct. 2: The signs of revival in the global economy should not be confused with the financial crisis being over and the countries should be ready with policies to sustain the recovery, multilateral lending agency IMF has said.…
Tagged as: business, chief economist, finance, global economic growth, India
New Delhi, Oct. 1: A sharp rise in food prices, vegetables in particular, pushed inflation higher to 0.83 per cent as of September 19 and analysts expect that the rate of price rise to cross seven per cent by this…
Tagged as: business, diesel oil, finance, food prices, India