On most relevant parameters, Airtel is doing better in Africa than India. Take subscriber growth, for example. In the past one year until June, the African operations have added 8.5 million subs as compared to a loss of 24.2 million (or 7 per cent subs) in India in the past one year to June

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To cite an example: Priyanka Amar Shah, a management student at the Welingkar Institute of Management, brought farming to the urban. Today, she helps several households and companies go green with her brain child iKheti.

Production in the auto hub of Gurgaon came to a halt as auto leader Maruti Suzuki and two-wheeler giant Hero MotoCorp shut their plants. The losses due to the strike are estimated at Rs 26,000 crore.

The telecom operator has suffered a profit drop for 12 quarters, hurt by its money-losing African business and bruising competition in domestic market. But the cancellation of licences of some smaller players will offer room to Airtel to increase call rates.

The Chinese telecom gear makers have overcomesecurity and quality concerns to corner a growing chunk of the Indian market. In2011-12, Huawei was ahead of Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Network, the Europeantelecom equipment makers which have long held the top two spots in the country,by revenues.

Reliance Industries has come up against a tough taskmaster in Petroleum Minister S. Jaipal Reddy. Several big-ticket proposals of the company are stuck at the petroleum ministry, something that people who follow the company and the ministry say is unprecedented.

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Following the success of a skit presentation by trainees, it will now be used for training frontline staff.

Bharti Airtel's employee-first strategy seems to be working for it. The firm makes a debut on this listing.

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Bharti Airtel dovetails HR with CSR to come up with a first-of-its-kind employee engagement formula.