Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said small and medium enterprises (SME) hold the key to the country`s industrial progress. Source: Zee News : Business | 22 Mar 2008 | 2:07 pm
The International Monetary Fund on Friday endorsed staff plans to develop best practice guidelines for sovereign wealth funds and said it would meet with wealth funds in April to start working on an initial draft. Source: Zee News : Business | 22 Mar 2008 | 2:07 pm
Principal PNB Asset Management company on Saturday declared a 400 per cent dividend in its Principal Personal Tax Saver Fund. Source: Daily News & Analysis: Money News | 22 Mar 2008 | 1:49 pm
RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah shared some common views about factors in the oil market that have pushed prices to record highs, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks on both sides of the Atlantic are in talks about the feasibility of mass purchases of mortgage-backed securities in a bid to solve the global credit crisis, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's cut-price shopping outlets are struggling to meet demand in the face of soaring food costs, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.
Hollywood investors are now 'reassessing their previous cool attitude' towards India and major players like Viacom, Universal, Dream Works and Warner Bros. prefer to invest in the Indian entertainment industry compared to China, says Hollywood trade magazine Variety. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 22 Mar 2008 | 8:30 am
Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said small and medium enterprises (SME) hold the key to the country's industrial progress. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 22 Mar 2008 | 5:30 am
Negative cues from the global markets and heavy selling by foreign institutional investors led the Indian market to suffer losses for the third straight week. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 22 Mar 2008 | 5:30 am
Potato farmers in the Deesa region are at their wits' end trying to tackle a problem of plenty. A bumper harvest has left them worried as cold storages are packed to capacity and now the crop is lying in the open.` Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 22 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
Delhi emerged as the best e-governed state in 2007, followed by Goa and Chhattisgarh, even as Karnataka and Gujarat plummeted in e-governance initiatives, a Dataquest-IDC e-Gov survey says. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 22 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Friday endorsed staff plans to develop best practice guidelines for sovereign wealth funds and said it would meet with wealth funds in April to start working on an initial draft.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has reassured the country's banking sector on the Rs.600 billion ($15 billion) farm loan waiver. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 22 Mar 2008 | 1:30 am
The country’s foreign exchange reserves went up by $3.028 billion to $306.488 billion for the week-ended March 14. The increase is mainly on account of revaluation of currency assets. The dollar had depreciated against major ... Source: Business Line - Home Page | 22 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Mumbai, March 21 The Government measures to tame the rising commodity prices seem to have little impact as prices of some of them such as chana, yellow peas, masoor, turmeric, refined soya oil and mustard oil have jumped more than 10 per cent ... Source: Business Line - Home Page | 22 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi, March 21 Soon you may not have to carry your past medical records with you every time you visit a hospital. Technology giant IBM is in talks with leading healthcare service providers in the country to set up an integrated data ... Source: Business Line - Home Page | 22 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s recent decision to ban surrogate advertising may cost the broadcasters as much as Rs 200 crore a year. Taking into account print media ads, this could rise to Rs 250 crore, according ... Source: Business Line - Home Page | 22 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Kishan Kumar was a happy man a year ago, having pocketed more than Rs 4 crore from selling nearly 20 acres of fertile land to Reliance Industries Ltd for its 12,355-acre Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Source: Business Standard | Front Page Headlines | 21 Mar 2008 | 6:52 pm
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL), the public-private consortium operating the first new airport to start commercial operations, has reduced the revenue stream from the two mandated Source: Business Standard | Front Page Headlines | 21 Mar 2008 | 6:51 pm
German luxury carmaker BMW is evaluating over 100 component manufacturers in India to outsource engines and chassis for its global manufacturing operations, according to a board member. ?? Source: Business Standard | Front Page Headlines | 21 Mar 2008 | 6:50 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's credit rating outlooks were cut on Friday by Standard & Poor's, which said volatile markets could result in lower profit and revenue.
The movie 'Race' made by Tips Films opened to an average 80 per cent collection in Mumbai theatres. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 21 Mar 2008 | 2:30 pm
Tips Industries Limited, which released the action movie 'Race' Friday, has joined with eBay, an online auction portal, to boost ticket sales of the movie. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 21 Mar 2008 | 2:30 pm
The Food Corp of India (FCI) has begun procuring wheat from Rajkot agriculture market yard from Friday at the rate of Rs.200 per 20-kg, market sources said. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:31 pm
Champagne Indage Ltd (CIL), one of the leading wine companies in India, will acquire Australian Vintage's Loxton winery for $60 million (Rs.2.4 billion) in an all cash transaction. Source: IndiaeNews.com: Business News | 21 Mar 2008 | 1:02 pm
