Business India

Sify plans to invest over Rs 400 cr in data centres (Business Standard India)
Sify Technologies, which provides enterprise data services and consumer Internet services, will be investing $100 million (around Rs 437 crore) over the next two years in building data centres across India. The company will set up one data centre each in Noida and Bangalore.

Poison warning over Indian herbal medicines
Swami Ramdev, a prominent Hindutva Yoga Guru caught putting animal testicles and human skull powder in his "Ayurvedic medicine" products. He claims to have cured AIDS and cancer with his therapy. He regularly dupe the hapless US citizens with several yoga camps and fake medicines. Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) — One in five herbal products used in so-called Ayurvedic medicine and sold over the Internet contain harmful levels of toxic metals, a study found. Herbal pills, powders and liquids are the foundat

Karnataka invites Tatas to start its small car project (Business Standard India)
Karnataka today joined several other states when it invited Tata Group to shift its small-car project from West Bengal's Singur to the state's Dharwad area where the firm already has a manufacturing plant.

Banana fibre – the next new sensation in textile industry
Banana fibre – the next new sensation in textile industrySeeded on Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:05 AM EDT (fibre2fashion.com) Innovation sees no limit and Indian consumers can expect something big coming up in the textile industry like fabrics and textiles woven from fine quality banana fibre.business, india, in-news, banana, textiles, fibre1

Sime Darby Inks MoU With India’s Premier Trading House To Set Up JV In Edible Oil Business (Bernama)
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Palm oil producer, Sime Darby Plantation Sdn Bhd, Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India's premier international trading house, The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd (STC), to set up a joint venture in the edible oil business in India.

Outsourcing groups battle India’s CV cheats
Microsoft Support Centre in Mumbai? India’s outsourcing industry is battling a rising number of “résumé cheats” – recruits who lie about their experience or qualifications – in a struggle that could be critical to the long-term prosperity of the business. Recent high staff turnover at large outsourcing groups has been partly owing to the weeding out of résumé cheats who were able to penetrate the industry during the past two years when growth was high and companies were hiring tens of thousands

ATM frauds getting more sophisticated: Experts (Business Standard India)
Economic frauds carried out through automated teller machines (ATMs) are now getting sophisticated and trendy with both technical and human expertise employed to siphon off the money.

ATM frauds getting more sophisticated: Experts (Business Standard India)
Economic frauds carried out through automated teller machines (ATMs) are now getting sophisticated and trendy with both technical and human expertise employed to siphon off the money.

Govt, PSU employees preferring investment in stocks: Assocham - Business Standard
Govt, PSU employees preferring investment in stocks: Assocham Business Standard, India - Aug 22, 2008 However, 32 per cent of the employees surveyed said they still preferred the traditional routes of investments as they assured them of safe returns.

Action shifts from futures to options - Hindu Business Line
Hindu Business Line Action shifts from futures to options Hindu Business Line, India - 15 hours ago "In contrast to trading the stock and index futures where risk is unlimited, a purchase of a call option where the premium cost is the maximum possible loss ... A futures strategy Business Standard all 2 news articles

A futures strategy - Business Standard
A futures strategy Business Standard, India - 14 hours ago Aggressive trading in F&O stocks immediately after they are introduced is fraught with risk, but returns can also be impressive. ...

Don’t fall for tips - Business Line
Don’t fall for tips Business Line, India - 11 hours ago More often than not, the ‘hot tips’ that you get on stocks that would ‘run up quickly, if you do not invest soon’ are for free. Beware of these ‘tips’ that ...

Don’t fall for tips - Business Line
Don’t fall for tips Business Line, India - 3 hours ago While cricket fans would enjoy such an information extravaganza, investors may just end up confused, especially if they have just begun investing. ...

Don’t fall for tips - Business Line
Don’t fall for tips Business Line, India - 2 hours ago While cricket fans would enjoy such an information extravaganza, investors may just end up confused, especially if they have just begun investing. ...

Air India to post $ 462 million loss in this year
Even in a year when international traffic to and from India grew 15 per cent, Air India couldn't hold onto its traffic. As Air India lost ground in the international skies, Indian lost ground in the domestic market. With 148 aircraft currently in operation, the management attention has been inordinately focused on the need to order more planes rather than managing the existing ones. India’s state owned, Air India’s loss for the fiscal year ending 31 March is around Rs20 billion rupees ($462 mil

MapmyIndia’s GPS Navigator launched in Kerala - Business Standard
MapmyIndia's GPS Navigator launched in Kerala Business Standard, India - 5 hours ago PTI / Kochi August 21, 2008, 18:38 IST MapmyIndia today announced the launch of their "sophisticated" all India GPS (Global Positioning System) device, ...

More is not always great - Business Standard
Sify More is not always great Business Standard, India - 1 hour ago Also, it is very important that one does not go the whole hog, that is, invest more than a large part of the portfolio in such instruments. ... Do index funds make sense? Livemint Stocks to watch Economic Times all 238 news articles

Canon Ixus 960 IS (Business Standard India)
Canon Ixus range has probably the best digital cameras. The latest, , is pricey at Rs 24,995 and is crammed with features starting with a whopping 12.1 megapixels, a 3.7x optical zoom lens with image stabiliser and ultra high refractive aspherical index to capture high-quality images through the zoom range.

Safe and steady - Business Standard
Safe and steady Business Standard, India - Aug 10, 2008 The first piece of advice is that - if you are investing in shares - you need to be an optimist. If you are not an optimist, don’t invest in shares. ...

Flawless Diamond to invest up to Rs 85 cr for biz expansion (Business Standard India)
Gems and jewellery manufacturer Flawless Diamond today said will expand its retail presence and would invest up to Rs 85 crore for expansion of business operations.

Trade Leads India: July 1st, 2008 Today the methods of business have changed and distances have no barrier and finding prospective buyers and sellers has been as easy as putting on a fan by click of a button. People have found net to be the biggest source of information to search for international business and clientage. To aid to such activities new set of entrepreneurs have jumped in and made trade leads portals which offer information about various sellers and buyers of different products and services all over the world. The online trade lead ad systems have brought things much closer and world for sure has now become a global village. People interact on such trade leads systems which are nothing else buy online classified ad systems but with a new role and presentation. One such trade lead system has been in the offering from namely TradeLeadsIndia.com where in the portals offers information related to Trade Leads India . It has been quite a challenge for the promoters of this ad network to jump into this arena as there were many existing players but they have come with unique offers where they are not only offering listing in this trade leads system but 100 of their other trade directories and portals offering tons of information for a very small amount in comparison to the cost they are asking which seems to be quite cheap to be true. Since this will not only offer a scope of listing with a trade lead system but give back links too which is quite needed for search engine ranking we find the offer made by them is irresistible and true value for money.

Indian Yellow Pages : July 1st, 2008 Getting listed in a B2B portal is one way to reach directly to your potential buyers or sellers as the trends are changing and every one wants specific results. Getting listed in such Trade Exporters Directory helps to get easy listing in Search Engines and response for the fact that these will have lakhs of pages full of data and hundreds of frequent visitors so getting listed in various search engine on good rank is for must. Talking specifically about Exporters Importers in India one can check various Indian Yellow Pages or Trade India Directories to ascertain how hundreds of business houses go for them. Another benefit is the Cost as these trade directories are run by local businessmen and they know the potential and the buying power of the market so the prices are always low, competitive and more rational. One gets fast turn around time and better service for those who wish to come to lime light in no time will find getting premium listings in these local directories will be much easy, thus getting an instant recognition will be much easier. It is also worth to mention that making negotiations are easy for the fact that there will be no language or communication bottle necks.Last but not the least it is easy to do Geographic-Targeting as it lets you select the audience you want to reach. You can also choose to target multiple geographic areas giving you a wider reach. Choose to target by location, by City, County, Metro Area, State, or Nation-wide.

Tourism Delhi This website Iamdelhi.com will bring to you in true sense what is called Hospitality to its core. There are hundreds of website about Delhi Tourism and Travel to India talking about travel and tourism luring prospective visitors about the services they offer but most do not even understand the meaning of word hospitality. What they tell you is same junk of information which hundreds of other websites do offer like telling about various tourist spot out here in Delhi and in its vicinity which are at times quite boring and of no interest but no one tries to go out of the league to make sure that tourists are shown Delhi in its color and true sense. How people in Delhi live and how the life moves in Delhi. Few boring tourist spots and smooth talks is what is normally offered to a tourist. Iamdelhi.com offers to show Delhi in its true sense and make you live in Delhi for all the days you spend here like a true delhite. IamDelhi.com is a website with a difference and it claims to show you Delhi in its day to day life, spiritual best and all the hustle bustle. The website offers to show you places visited by regulars, local markets, few monuments, religious places and hi-tech upcoming suburbs. Iamdelhi.com assures to give you treasured memories to remember all your life. The website is run by a Delhite couple living in Delhi from last 40 years. The website offers to serve a decent fearless holiday with assurance of a safe visit for tourists coming to Tour India / Tour Delhi with no fear of going to an alien city with strangers. The claim to have a NO NON-SENSE website offering One to One service. They further assure that tourists visiting Delhi and using there service will feel like visiting a relative and staying in Delhi will be as comfortable as living in ones own home. The tour packages they offer not only talks about economies in terms of cost of staying in Hotels in Delhi or Guest Houses in Delhi but a safe and Secure Journey. There service includes pickup at airport escorted by a trusted employees taking the tourist straight to the guest house/hotel. To summarize the whole package is focused on economy, safety and hospitality at its best encompassing almost everything during the course of visit to Delhi.