In order to meet the growing need for uranium, state-owned Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) is mulling acquisition of one mining asset overseas apart from starting exploratory activity in four

UCIL scouts for Uranium mine acquisition overseas

Press Trust of India

As Mahindra-badged vehicles of Scorpio and Xylo prepare to enter the American market, the company is aiming to have a splash in China also, which is the world&rsquo;s second largest automobile market

Mahindra to launch Scorpio in China

Business Standard

The figure could amount to 20-24% of the budget for sports in 2008-09.
Cricket-led advertising on sports channels will take a hit as advertisers are planning to pull back Rs 300-350 crore, or about

Cricket faces advertising spend cuts

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A's) Entre Club organised its second Social Entrepreneurship Fair on Sunday.

IIMA&#39;s  Social Entre Fair held

Steadfast focus on customer service has given Samsung India an edge over rivals.

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Bacardi is almost synonymous with white rum, isn&rsquo;t it? And why not? For about 130 years, the company with Cuban origins sold nothing but rum.

'We acquire brands, not companies'

All gloves are off in the still nascent but lucrative direct-to-home space.

Triple, trick or treat?

The breakneck economic growth experienced by India and China may run out of steam, or, more precisely, talent, if nothing is done to address some imminent human resource challenges.

Needed: Another People&#39;s Revolution

    The founder of this company worked with her chemist uncle and formulated face creams in his kitchen.

The Strategist Quiz (72)

The world has 49,000 airports, of which about 15,000 are in the United States.

KIT: Airports and Passenger Traffic Worldwide

    This bitter-flavoured carbonated drink is consumed as a non-alcoholic aperitif in Italy. It is named after an area in Los Angeles and gets its bitterness from quinine. Identify the brand and its manufacturer.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#071)

Research departments will be set up to further the cause of women's studies.

Women study centres need more teeth: UGC

The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), which recently introduced engineering courses on Google and YouTube, is set to get up to Rs 50 lakh as an academic grant from Google to fund its

IIT Madras gets grant from Google

The University of Pune is planning to churn out 50,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) professionals every year through a &lsquo;distance learning&rsquo; training programme it has launched in

Pune varsity targets BPO jobs

The All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) may have given a reprieve to existing and new engineering institutions by allowing them, among other things, permission to run evening

Faculty afraid of burnout after AICTE allows evening classes

KIIT School of Rural Management, a constituent of the city-based KIIT University, plans to roll out a one year Post Graduate Diploma Programme in Rural Management for working executives from the

KIIT plans rural management course for executives

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Day one of &ldquo;slot zero&rdquo; &mdash; the most coveted slot assigned to recruiters &mdash; saw finance and consulting companies come to the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B)

&#39;Slot zero&#39; attracts finance firms despite concerns

B-schools&rsquo; summer placement figures indicate that the economic slowdown has not yet cast a shadow on their campuses.

Sun still shines on summer placements

The newly elected lawmakers of Karnataka would undergo an unique course on legislation business at elite Indian Institute of Management here.

IIM-B to train MLAs

The Japanese gave the world Just-in-Time Management. The Chinese offer ultra-large-scale manufacturing efficiencies.

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