Electrical push to drive Wipro
Jan. 25: Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, the consumer business unit of Wipro Ltd, plans to foray into electrical appliances. The company has tested waters with the launch of iron boxes, and will so
Sangwan joins Knight Riders
Jan. 24: The Delhi Daredevils team that had some of the best domestic players in action is sure to lose out a lot on local flavour in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League after left-arm sea
Bowlers on song; batting chinks a worry
Jan. 24: It was too good to last. Yusuf Pathan’s run-a-minute blast gave India a foot in the door in the fifth and final match of the ODI series on Sunday, but the odds were far too overwhelming for a
‘Not chasing records’
The undisputed king of Indian table tennis, Achanta Sharath Kamal, is on a high. The 28-year-old achieved a record-breaking feat by winning the senior national title for the fifth time in a row in Kol
Inflation has averaged at 9% in FY11
Jan. 24: The Union finance ministry has said that the average inflation would be nine per cent for this financial year as compared to 3.8 per cent in the previous year. The wholesale inflation was 8.4
Faster price rise worries RBI
Jan. 24: A day before coming out with the credit policy, the Reserve Bank of India again underlined its single biggest fear — rising prices or inflation. The central bank has expressed a fear that ris
Loan defaults hit SKS profit hard
Jan. 24: SKS Microfinance Ltd, the country’s only listed-microfinance company, posted a 38.41 per cent decline in net profit on the back of higher provisioning and bad loan write offs.
The company’s
Major IT firms set to ramp up hiring
Jan. 21: Happy days are back again for India’s techies, as technology majors ramp up their hiring plans. The five major players — Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Cognizant and HCL are expected to add over 1.6 la
Greens win an army of fans
Generally, spectators at the ongoing Don Bosco-McFerran all-India football tournament disperse as soon as the final whistle is blown. But on Friday, many of them stayed on to appreciate a youngster wh
Betting on freshness and health
Air conditioners are going hi-tech this summer with Samsung, Panasonic and Sharp setting the pace. The end goal is to keep freshness in the air and cut down people’s vulnerability to air-borne disease