Banks stocks are likely to grow in the coming year and provide good returns.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is India's most successful Test cricket captain. His 22nd victory as skipper, achieved in Hyderabad against Australia recently, took him past Sourav Ganguly's 21 victories

Finance Minister P Chidambaram at a Google+ Hangout took pains to defend the government's management of the economy and pointed out that India's problems needed to be seen in a global context. He says fiscal deficit will be kept at 4.8 per cent or below in 2013/14.

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The recent Emerging Kerala 2012 Global Connect conference attracted 45 investment proposals worth over Rs 40,000 crore.

Mahindra Satyam plans to treble its employees strength in China to 1,500 by 2015 as part of strategic focus on engineering, manufacturing and telecom sectors, using China as a base to serve global clients.

Leading public sector banks have pared down retail lending rates on home and auto loans in a move aimed at boosting demand and spur growth.

As part of Mahindra Satyam's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the company will seek next month shareholders' approval to increase the minimum charity contribution by its board of directors four-fold to Rs 20 crore a year.

Satisfied with its three-year transformation journey from the once scam-hit Satyam Computer, Mahindra Satyam has said the customers who had left it during uncertain times are returning back to its fold.

India's auto market has changed rapidly in the last two years, with the share of petrol cars in total sales falling to 50 to 60 per cent from 85 per cent.

Shares of Mahindra Satyam soars about 10 per cent following its posting over 56 per cent jump in net profit for the quarter ended June 30.

Mahindra Satyam has enter into an agreement with Aberdeen Claims Administration Inc to settle charges of losses due to the Satyam scam filed in a US district court for $12 million (Rs 66.7 crore).

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HSBC is likely to sell stake in private sector lenders Axis Bank and Yes Bank as part of its global strategy and is understood to have appointed merchant bankers for the deals.

Leading firms such as General Motors, Maruti Suzuki, Volkswagen, Hyundai and Ford are coming up with improved variants to create some excitement in the market and discarding models which are not doing well.

Aaj Tak honours companies which excelled at corporate social responsibility activities.

Driven largely by higher revenues and increased employee efficiency rates, Mahindra Satyam reported a net profit of Rs 534.21 crore in Q4 2011-12, against a net loss of Rs 327 crore in same period last year.

The 30-share Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex fell 66.60 points, or 0.40 per cent, to 16,479.58.

This is the second time in as many months that Warburg sold its stake in the Kotak Mahindra Bank. On February 2, it sold a part of its holding for $170 million.

The PE major sold its 3.6 per cent stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank for about Rs 1,400 crore, marking its exit from the Indian private sector bank. Since February, this is the fifth deal, involving a foreign investor selling shares in an Indian financial sector entity.