Bharti Airtel said it will add 13,000 new mobile sites and introduce a key element of 5G technology in Karnataka in the next six months as part of its network upgrade. It also plans to add 4,500 km of optic fiber within the state in the same time period. As part of the upgrade, it […]
Syngene International Ltd, the contract research unit of Biocon, announced the resignation of its chief operating officer Manoj Nerurkar. It said Nerurkar, who has been with the COO of the company for nine years, will step down to an advisory role from October to pursue “an external start up opportunity outside of contract research services”. […]
The Union urban development ministry today countered allegations that the government was trying to extend favors to real estate developers in NOIDA in the name of helping flat-buyers. The NOIDA and Greater NOIDA areas adjoining Delhi have seen many developers run into severe financial difficulties after the government cracked down on the use of illicit […]
ICRA, a part of Moody’s Investors Service, revised its outlook on YES Bank’s borrowings to ‘stable’ from ‘positive’ on the basis of the Reserve Bank of India’s direction last week cutting short the tenure of the company’s CEO Rana Kapoor. “The revision in outlook to stable from positive considers the recent direction from RBI whereby […]
Residents of Thane will have to shell out more for driving to Mumbai and Navi Mumbai from today after the operator of the Airoli and Mulund toll plazas restarted toll collection. Collection of toll at the two centers was suspended on Aug 21 for cars, SUVs, state government buses, school buses and other light and […]
The Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India are “closely monitoring recent developments in financial markets” and are ready “to take appropriate actions, if necessary,” India’s central bank said in a one-line statement on Sunday. The move comes in the wake of what looks to be the beginning of prolonged […]
Amara Raja Batteries, India’s largest battery maker, said it has agreed to license stamping technology from Johnson Controls, one of the world’s largest automotive parts makers, used to make lead acid batteries. “The company has entered into an agreement with Johnson Controls Technology Company (JC), USA for acquiring the license for manufacturing advanced stamped grid […]
Biocon, one of India’s foremost research-oriented pharmaceutical companies, said the US drug regulator has completed an inspection at its Bangalore facility without remarks. “The US FDA conducted a periodic cGMP inspection of our Drug Substance manufacturing site at Bangalore Campus from Sep 17 – 21, 2018. “The week-long audit concluded without any observations and no […]
Star India has agreed to share the feed of cricket matches involving India with Reliance Jio’s live TV app JioTV. Till now, JioTV users had to install Star’s Hotstar app to watch any of the network’s sports channels. The sharing agreement is valid for five years, said Reliance Jio, without divulging the financial details behind […]
Infosys said it will open a ‘Technology and Innovation Hub’ in the US state of Arizona and hire 1,000 American workers in the state by 2023. Infosys said it has hired 5,874 American workers in the last 16 months. Arizona center will focus on autonomous technologies, Internet of Things (IOT), full-stack engineering, data science and cyber security. […]
Reliance Industries, one of India’s largest petroleum producers, said its D26 oil field in the KG-D6 offshore block has ceased production, a decade after oil started flowing from the field. The D26 was one of the three prolific fields of the D6 block. A field, in oil and gas terminology, is a smaller area within […]
Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals said it is facing working capital issues that are preventing it from operating its plant. “..the company had taken plant maintenance activities on July 4, 2018,” it said in a statement today. “The shutdown had to be extended due to inadequate working capital on account of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and accumulated […]
Dilip Buildcon said it has emerged as the favored bidder to build a 5.3 km stretch of the upcoming metro rail system in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The development comes barely a month after DBL was declared the lowest bidder for the Bhopal Metro project in the state. The current bid is to build an elevated […]
Hotel Leelaventure, one of India’s biggest hotel groups, said it missed yet another interest payment on debt issued to Life Insurance Corporation of India. “The company has defaulted in payment of quarterly interest of Rs 212.67 lakhs, which was due on 19 September, 2018,” it said in a statement. Leela had raised debt of Rs […]
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet said it will start new, daily flights from Hyderabad to Bangkok and Guwahati from Oct 10, becoming the first Indian airline to have a direct flight from Hyderabad to Bangkok, a popular holiday destination for Indians. Before this, people using Indian flights had to use a connecting flight from Delhi while traveling […]
Oursourcing major Infosys has been directed to pay around Rs 12.17 cr to former CFO Rajiv Bansal by an arbitration panel. The panel was set up after Infosys landed in a controversy over the ‘huge payout’ extended to the former CFO when he left the company three years ago. The arbitration panel comprised retired Supreme […]
Aurobindo Pharma said it received approval from the South African authorities to launch a key anti-HIV drug in the country, following the launch of the medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dolutegravir, Lamivudine and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (DLT) tablets are the first-line, preferred regimen for HIV patients as per latest WHO guidelines, the company said. “Aurobindo is […]
Outsourced services provider Infosys said it has made yet another investment of $1.5 mln in start-up software company TidalScale, taking the total to $3 mln. TidalScale creates software that helps ‘merge’ multiple servers (or powerful computers) into a giant and super-powerful unit. Traditionally, the need for more power has been met by ‘clustering’ servers together. […]
Infiosys announced it was buying Europe-based Salesforce consultant Fluido for an undisclosed sum. The acquired company has over 240 specialists and offices in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Slovakia. Salesforce is a low-cost alternative to customer relationship management software from the likes of Oracle and SAP, and is preferred by smaller organizations and those that […]
Pharma major Lupin said the inspection of the US Food and Drug Administration at its Nagpur plant has “concluded without any observation.” Conclusion of an inspection without any observations indicates that the facility was found to be up to the standards expected by the FDA. This inspection was a product specific pre-approval inspection, it said. […]
