Noted

Updated : May 23, 2009

Noted

Garnered: Over 2.03 lakh bookings by Tata Nano, deliveries of which will begin in July. At Rs 95,000 per car booked for the base model, plus the 6.1 lakh booking forms sold at Rs 300 each, Tata Motors has garnered around Rs 2,500 crore from the launch exercise.

Updated : May 1, 2009

Noted

<strong>Appointed:</strong> Naina Lal Kidwai, who was until now the CEO of HSBC in India, as the country head and chairperson of all HSBC Group companies in India.

Updated : Apr 17, 2009

Bagged, appointed, failed and voted!

Ratan Tata is voted as ‘India Inc.’s Most Powerful CEO’ by The Economic Times Corporate Dossier’s Most Powerful CEOs Survey.

Updated : Apr 2, 2009

Google

Signed a deal between Sony and Google for making half a million copyright-free books available for Sony’s Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle.

Updated : Mar 20, 2009

Revamped, launched...

Work and processes by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the external auditor of Satyam Computer Services, by setting up a new advisory board and appointing a new quality assurance and risk management head.

Updated : Mar 20, 2009

'Damage to global liquidity is $18 trillion'?

Hemant Mishr, Head (Global Markets, India), Standard Chartered Bank, spoke to BT’s Puja Mehra on the liquidity crunch and the high lending rates.

Updated : Mar 20, 2009

Domestic air travel nose dives

A quick look at the latest Airports Authority of India (AAI) data for India’s top 10 airports shows that air traffic in the first nine months of the 2008-09 fiscal has dropped sharply.

Updated : Feb 20, 2009

Ranked

Ranked: Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Reliance Industries, as the third richest CEO by Forbes magazine, in a list of 10 wealthiest CEOs.

Updated : Feb 6, 2009

Hiked

Hiked: By India’s leading car maker Maruti Suzuki, the prices of popular A-Star, Swift, DZire and SX4 models, due to increased input costs and the appreciation of the Japanese yen vis-à-vis the Indian rupee. The price hikes range between Rs 6,000 and Rs 10,000. However, the company has left the prices of M800, Omni, Alto, WagonR, Zen Estilo, Gypsy, Versa and Grand Vitara untouched.

Updated : Jan 23, 2009

Formed

By the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a task force on corporate governance to be headed by former Cabinet Secretary and India’s Ambassador to the US, Naresh Chandra. The task force would look at issues emerging out of the Satyam episode and make its recommendations.

Updated : Jan 8, 2009