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Reliance Makes Bid for Chemical Giant

MUMBAI, India Reliance Industries, the largest private company in India, said that it had made an offer to acquire a controlling interest in the world’s third-largest chemical company, LyondellBasell. Reliance did not disclose late Saturday how much it ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: LyondellBasell,  Reliance Industries,  Lyondell Chemical,  BASF,  Jaguar

Reliance Industries Makes Bid for U.S. Chemical Company

MUMBAI — Reliance Industries, India’s largest private company and one of its most ambitious, said that it has made an offer to acquire a controlling interest in the world’s third-largest chemical company. Reliance did not disclose late Saturday how ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, International Herald Tribune,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Reliance Industries,  BASF,  Jaguar,  Land Rover,  Tata Group

Renault-Nissan Plans to Release Low-Cost Car in India in 2012

NEW DELHI — The top executive of Renault and Nissan said Tuesday that his companies would begin selling a small car in India in 2012 that would cost less than any other car sold in the country — and thus the world. The car, which will be made by the ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nissan,  Renault,  Carlos Ghosn,  Tata Motors Ltd

Adding a Sixth Sense to Your Cellphone

Many Indians bought their first mobile phones before they had their first experiences with personal computers. Pranav Mistry thinks that most of them might also skip keyboards and mice and go straight to more intuitive and interactive interfaces. He ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Indian Institute of Technology,  Google Inc.,  Wall Street Journal,  Wipro Limited

Technology Squeezes Jobs at Indian Outsourcers, Too

From our colleagues at Economix: American economists and policy makers are not alone in worrying about where jobs will come from in the future. So is the leader of one of India’s biggest technology services companies. S. Gopalakrishnan, the chief ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Carly Fiorina,  Damon Darlin,  Wall Street Journal,  Gordon Ramsay

Small Indian Maker of Electric Cars Looks to Upsize

BANGALORE, India Depending on whom you ask, this tiny company is either the next big thing in automobiles, or the maker of glorified golf carts. What’s indisputable is that as the whole automotive world seems to be racing suddenly toward the age of ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Chevrolet,  Tata Motors Ltd,  Daimler,  Barack Obama

India Finds Itself Awash in Foreign Investment

MUMBAI Six months ago, it looked as if India was in for a bumpy recession. Factories were laying off workers and construction sites were grinding to a halt as foreign investment slowed to a trickle. But in the last few months India has hit a gusher, as ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, International Herald Tribune,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  HDFC Bank Limited,  Ford Motor Company

Out From the Alleys, Gold Loans Gain Stature in India

KOCHI, India Indians own more gold than the citizens of any other country. They use the glittering metal as ornaments to flaunt family wealth, as a source of retirement savings and as insurance against calamities. But lately, gold has become something ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  28 Sep 2009

Trade Talks to Resume, but Divides Remain

NEW DELHI — Trade ministers from around the world said Friday that they would resume negotiations on a stalled free-trade agreement even as it became clear that developing countries and the United States remain far apart on critical issues. After two ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Celso Amorim,  Ron Kirk,  World Trade Organization,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress

India Gets Caught Short as Sugar Prices Soar

LONI KALBHOR, India Sanjay Gujar’s family has raised sugar cane for generations. But last year, after sugar prices fell by more than 40 percent, he replanted his six acres here in the sugar bowl of India with bananas. A year later, after Mr. Gujar and ...

From VIKAS BAJAJ, The New York Times,  4 Aug 2009

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