GoAir, A Wadia group airline will add five more aircraft to its present fleet of three by the end of December 2006, said Jeh Wadia, its managing director. 


GoAir to add five aircraft to its fleet

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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Andhra Pradesh launched a Vision Document for the textile sector in Andhra Pradesh  Andhra Pradesh Textile Industry  Vision 2015 today. 


CII unveils vision document for textile sector

After a gap of nearly two-and-a-half years, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata will be in Hyderabad on April 8, 2006. He will take part in the graduation day ceremony of the Indian School of Business to

Ratan Tata to visit Hyd on April 8

<I>Paper manufacturers in the country are bullish on the industrys prospects. At present, every major paper mill in India is either expanding capacity or modernising its units. 


`Paper manufacturers bullish on future`

The Technopark-based Toonz Animation India is all set to make a splash globally with a bouquet of its productions that promises to brighten up television screens and cinema halls around the world. 


Toonz set to make global splash

Auto dealers in Maharashtra are anticipating a raft of new customers for the remaining eight days of the month. This will help the customers avoid a possible hike in vehicle prices as a result of an

Auto dealers expect deluge of customers

Nippon Audiotronics, the Indian franchisee of Kenwood car audio systems has announced the launch of SatGuide, a touchscreen navigation device mainly targeted at the car users across India. 


Nippon Audio introduces navigation device

The Kamat group of hotels is planning to set up a hospitality management institute in the next three-four months, a hotel management and tourism training institute over the next two months and an

Kamat group lines up Rs 30 cr investment for Nagpur

Consumer electronics major LG Electronics India has shifted its export-oriented production to its plant at Ranjangaon, 30 km from here. The company is also planning to commence exports to the European

LG shifts exports base to Ranjangaon

The spicy and crispy potato wafers may be just a refreshing snack for some but it holds a greater significance for the women of Malwa as it creates job opportunities for them. Hundreds of women work

Potato wafer industry a blessing for Malwa women

Madhya Pradesh has been declared bird flu-free, though Burhanpur and Boregaon, where birds died in droves, have been sealed. According to official sources, birds in these areas have not died of avian

Madhya Pradesh declared free of bird flu

With the sensex gaining new heights on a daily basis, the interest of the common man in the share market is growing equally. The rising sales in books on investing in the share market in the city is

Sales of self help finance books on the rise

A Rajkot-based V V P Engineering college is all set to host Vibrations 2006, a two-day National Level Technical Symposium scheduled on March 28 and 29 in the city. 


Rajkot college to hold tech symposium

Sector-wise allocations in 2013The software & services sector accounted for 31.17% of investments in terms of deal volume with an aggregate of $32.21 mn. Healthcare equipment & services was second, attracting $80.09 million (10.39%) in eight deals. Retailing, real estate and commercial & professional services were the other top sectors

A snapshot of PE activity & deals

Interview with Associate Managing Director, Kroll India

We see funds doing diligence much earlier in deal cycle: Reshmi Khurana

Rifts between promoters & investors reason behind their exodusPrivate equity (PE) investors who had jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon are now finding themselves in a spot, as a growing number of founders leave PE-backed e-commerce sites. Increasing rifts between promoters and investors are said to be behind the founders' exodus.Last month, Abhishek Shah quit as chief executive of Fetise Retail, which ran men's fashion apparel e-shop Fetise.com. Last year, the husband-wife duo of Gaurav Kachru and Pearl Uppal had quit Smile Group's deal site Dealsandyou.com and flash sales site Fashionandyou.com, respectively. In January 2012, Fetise had raised $5 million in its first round of funding from Seedfund. In November 2011, Fashionandyou.com, an invitation-only shopping site, had raised $40 million (Rs 201 crore) from a group of investors led by Norwest Venture Partners and Intel Capital.Mahesh Murthy, co-founder, Seedfund, said, "Some promoter exits are because of incompatibility of visi

PE investors in a spot as founders quit

Yebhi ropes in Google India's marketing head to grow big

BS People: Nikhil Rungta

When Marissa Mayer took over as chief executive at Yahoo last summer, she confronted a Silicon Valley campus that was very different from the one she had left at Google.Parking lots and entire floors of cubicles were nearly empty because some employees were working as little as possible and leaving early. Then there were the 200 or so people who had work-at-home arrangements. Although they collected Yahoo paychecks, some did little work for the company and a few had even begun their own start-ups on the side.These were among the factors that led Mayer to announce last week that she was abolishing Yahoo's work-from-home policy, saying that to create a new culture of innovation and collaboration at the company, employees had to report to work.The announcement ignited a national debate over workplace flexibility  and within Yahoo has inspired much water cooler conversation and some concern.But former and current Yahoo employees said that Mayer made the decision not as a referendum on work

New policy meant to raise morale: Yahoo

Unlike other TVS group companies, it wants to achieve global scale through acquisitions. Will it succeed?

TVS Logistics breaks its traditional shackles

The Stanford University Board of Trustees last month agreed to a 3.9 per cent increase in tuition fee for MBA students attending the university's graduate school of business. This would translate to the two-year programme costing $200,000. In the past five years, tuition fee at B-schools has gone up significantly.Â A study by AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, which accredits B-schools worldwide) suggests:

MBA degree gets costlier

In November, five students with over 34 months of experience opted out

IIMB grad opts out of placements to chase his dream

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