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Air India set for imagemakeover

AIR INDIA has appointed an international consultancy firm — Cato Purnell Partners — to give it a branding makeover for the forthcoming Common wealth Games at a cost of over $ 1.6 million. “Cato Purnel

Bayer says quarterly earnings fell to 525 million euros

Frankfurt, July 29: German pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Thursday that its second quarter net profit fell to 525 million euros (680 million dollars), well below market expectations.

Net profit fell

Nissan posts 1.22 billion dollar first quarter profit

Tokyo, Japan, July 29: Japan's number three automaker Nissan Motor on Thursday announced a quarterly net profit of 106.6 billion yen (1.22 billion dollars), after a 16.5 billion yen loss a year earlie

Noel Tata is new MD of Tata International

Mumbai, July 29: The Tata Group Thursday appointed Noel N. Tata the managing director (MD) of Tata International. He will be based in Mumbai.

Noel Tata has stepped down as the MD of retail chain Tren

India, UAE discuss bilateral trade

Abu Dhabi, July 27: India's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) M.K. Lokesh and the director general of UAE's ministry of foreign trade, Abdullah Ahmed Al Saleh, met here to discuss issues re

JSW Steel to start Salboni project by fiscal-end

Kolkata, July 27: JSW Steel would start construction of its 10-million-tonne Salboni plant in West Bengal before the end of the current fiscal (2010-11), a top company official said Tuesday.

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Poor margins hurt Essar Oil’s profit

Ruias-owned Essar Oil reported a net loss of Rs 70 crore for the quarter ended June 30 on account of a contraction in oil refining margins. The company earned $5.61 on every barrel of crude oil it tur

Tata Docomo offers 1p/sec call to US

Unleashing another round of price war in telecom space, Tata Docomo today slashed its international call rates by whopping 83 per cent to one paisa per second on calls from Punjab to the US and Canada

Centre eyes Rs 977cr from EIL

The government expects to mop-up Rs 977 crore from the 10 per cent disinvestment in state-run Engineers India Limited (EIL). “We expect to mop-up Rs 977 crore from EIL disinvestment,” the disinvestmen

MFs resist Sebi idea of equal charge

Mutual fund houses are strongly resisting a proposal from market regulator Sebi for treating small investors at par with large institutional ones in terms of various charges, such as exit-loads, with

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