Everybody got up and took notice of Maytas Infra when it bagged the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project on the back of a unique proposition &mdash; instead of receiving payments to execute the project it

NEWSMAKER: B Teja Raju

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&ldquo;A Mahindra in every household,&rdquo; Mahindra &amp; Mahindra Vice-chairman and Managing Director Anand Mahindra gave a clear indication of his intent on Wednesday after acquiring the assets of

NEWSMAKER: Anand Mahindra

If Ratan Tata loves flying supersonic jets in azure skies, his stepbrother, Noel, likes to drive at 240 km/hour on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, to the utter disbelief of his co-passengers.

NEWSMAKER: Noel Tata

India may have welcomed a &ldquo;stable and democratic&rdquo; Pakistan when General Pervez Musharraf became Mr Pervez Musharraf but now experts here are predicting his return sooner than later.

NEWSMAKER: Pervez Musharraf

In September 2006, ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, acquired Colombian oil company Omimex de Colombia.

NEWSMAKER:  Radhe Shyam Sharma

Wipro chairman Azim Premji, with a stake of nearly 80 per cent, is not only the single largest beneficiary of annual dividends, but also the highest paid executive in the company.

Premji still highest paid Wipro exec

Speciality Restaurants, the Rs 150 crore restaurant chain, is in a major rejuvenation mode for its existing 36 restaurants in India.

Anjan Chatterjee plans to do up his restaurants

Even as both Hewlett-Packard (HP) and EDS are yet to make a financial decision on whether to continue operating MphasiS as a fully-owned subsidiary in India, Deepak Patel, a key executive of MphasiS, has resigned from the company with immediate effect.

MphasiS MD Deepak Patel quits

P>Joint ventures have been an integral part of STRONG>Bhupendra Kumar Modi/STRONG>'s life.

B K Modi: Joint venture man

After spending nearly 11 years in Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM), Deputy Managing Director K K Swamy and the company's public face, has resigned with effect from May 12.

Toyota India deputy MD quits to join Volkswagen

P>Bhupendra (Bhulo) Kansagra, the promoter-director of Delhi-based low-cost carrier SpiceJet, grabbed the headlines this week after announcing he is looking to exit the airline if he gets the right valuation.

NEWSMAKER: Bhupendra Kansagra

Vijay Mallya has ensured that his brands do not fall out of Indian Premier League (IPL) viewership, though his team Royal Challengers (RC) Bangalore bowed out of the tournament.

Now, Mallya bats for rival teams

P>She's neither a rah-rah feminist railing against glass ceilings, nor a retiring housewife, jasmine-studded oiled hair hanging down her back and a nominal interest in business.

Rajshree Pathy: Deriving the right message

A Delhi High Court interim order given last week can totally alter the patent regime in the country for life-saving drugs.

Cipla: Patent crusader

P>The Tata Group website describes Arun Gandhi as &#34having assisted the Tata group in acquiring diverse assets and companies across the globe and gain access to critical assets, resources and world class R&amp;D facilities.

Arun Gandhi: Landing a jaguar

P>U K Sinha, chairman and managing director of UTI Asset Management Company (UTI AMC), is on the fast lane.

U K Sinha: Bourses on target

P>When HCL Infosystems begins marketing the world&#39;s cheapest commercial laptop (excluding Nicholas Negroponte&#39;s XO Rs 7,500 laptop being used in developing countries) from Republic Day this year, it will indeed be a patriotic reply by an Indian manufacturer of computers to multinationals who have dominated this arena globally.

Ajay Chowdhry: Patriotic response

Kadambi Narahari, the ex-chief executive officer of SBI Cards has joined C-Edge Technologies, a technology, infrastructure and services provider to banks in the country as vice president a month ago.

Ex-CEO of SBI Cards Kadambi Narahari joins C-Edge Technologies

Japanese two-wheeler giant Yamaha today announced to appoint the Managing Director of its Vietnamese operations Masaki Asano as the Deputy Managing Director of India Yamaha Motor.

Yamaha appoints ex-Vietnam MD as India Deputy MD

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IFCI Ltd today said Rakesh Bharti Mittal has resigned from the board of the company.

Rakesh Bharti Mittal resigns from IFCI board

&quot;The big picture challenge is that the (business) environment is going to be tougher and more complex than it was in 1991. In 1991, there were less people aspiring to succeed in this newly opened economy.

Tougher biz environment challenge for Mistry: Tata

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