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4,600% windfall for Amitabh Bachchan from Just Dial Sachin P Mampatta |...
Amitabh Bachchan will make gains of at least 4,600% in the initial public offer (IPO) of Just Dial, and that’s only at the lower end of the price band. If the IPO is fully subscribed at the upper end...
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Local search engine Just Dial's Rs 950-cr IPO opens tomorrow Press Trust of...
The estimated Rs 950-crore IPO of local search engine Just Dial will begin tomorrow and is one of the largest initial public offers by an Indian Internet company. The IPO, which does not have issue of...
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Branding beyond the Taj Abhineet Kumar | Mumbai BS
The Indian Hotels Company's strategy of multiple brands has helped it expand into upscale segments, but it had to tackle transition challenges wherever old properties were given a new identity. The...
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The Agony of Peace
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara“To change masters is not to be free”Jose Marti (eddosrios.org )( May 19, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The photograph2 is iconic; Alavi Moulana, 83 years old and an SLFP...
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How to make miracles
| by Dayan Jayatilleka( May 15, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) I didn’t need a map to get there. Elmo had helpfully sent a Google Earth graphic together with the invitation. The location was St...
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A radical abdication of the court's authority – a blow to the separation of...
( May 15, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Chief Justice Mohan Peiris stopped further inquiries into a Fundamental Rights application yesterday, stating that the courts do not have the technical...
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A history unlikely to be repeated
( May 16, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The standardization policy introduced by Sirimavo Bandaranaike's United Front Government was aimed at addressing a higher education issue that caused worry...
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Will Britain use CHOGM to rectify blunder affecting Tamils' rights?
| by Upul Joseph Fernando ( May 15, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The UK High Commissioner was asked to comment on accusations that 'divide and rule' policies of the British colonial...
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Why Venky's Need to Exit Blackburn Rovers FC by Shravan Bhat Forbes.com
Image: Getty ImagesFans threw live chicken on the field after the club was relegated from the Premier LeagueW hen the Pune-based Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group (VH Group), a seller of poultry...
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Karl Slym wants to change the way Tata Motors makes and sells its cars. But...
Image: Vikas KhotKarl SlymAge : 50Career : Started at Toyota as senior manager; spent more than 25 years in GM across roles and geographies, including seven years as head of GM’s India operations....
View ArticleSome Chinese tourists 'uncivilised': top official
Some Chinese tourists 'uncivilised': top official 17 May, 201316:39:10BEIJING, May 17, 2013 (AFP) - The dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the...
View ArticleIndia's 'new generation' of filmmakers feted at Cannes
20 May, 201308:23:00CANNES, France, May 20, 2013 (AFP) - Unashamedly escapist, with wafer-thin plots and cheesy dialogue, all punctuated by exuberant song and dance routines,...
View ArticleSri Lanka asked to curb refuse tea exports to Iraq: commerce ministry
19 May, 201318:34:54May 19, 2013 (LBO) - A delegation of Iraqi officials have called for tighter controls on exports of Sri Lankan tea to stop refuse tea from entering their...
View ArticleSri Lanka Tamils defy ban on remembering war dead
19 May, 201306:45:52COLOMBO, May 18, 2013 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's main opposition Tamil party Saturday defied a military ban and staged a commemoration of their war dead as the...
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Diaspora Tamils observe Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal Genocide remembrance events
[TamilNet, Sunday, 19 May 2013, 17:16 GMT]Events remembering the internationally-abetted genocide in May 2009 were held in several countries in the West by the Tamil diaspora on Saturday. While over...
View ArticleJaffna University remembers Vanni genocide amidst SL military oppression
[TamilNet, Sunday, 19 May 2013, 13:39 GMT]Sri Lankan military harassments continue at Jaffna University where a memorial event was silently observed by hundreds of students on Friday, news sources in...
View ArticleMu’l’li-vaaykkaal survivor speaks out
[TamilNet, Saturday, 18 May 2013, 11:51 GMT]Mrs Ananthi Sasitharan, who personally witnessed Sri Lanka military taking away her husband, Mr Elilan, a political leader of the LTTE, at the end the Vanni...
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Politician families in business: What aided their meteoric rise By John...
Theon Pharmaceuticals, controlled by immediate family of former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, has risen in size from Rs 15 cr to Rs 152 cr. Companies run by family members of some politicians...
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Tata’s fluctuating M&A fortunes: What Tata Steel Europe can learn from JLR By...
One option, experts say, is to try for customer optimisation by using the base in India to serve customers in this regionTime is a fickle mistress in the world of mergers and acquisitions, and two...
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After US, India to probe Ranbaxy's documents Sushmi Dey | New Delhi BS
In what could be the beginning of fresh troubles for Ranbaxy Laboratories, which has just managed to settle long-pending issues with the US Department of Justice after agreeing to pay a penalty of $500...
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