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18 Nov 2014
An inexperienced HR manager asks on a legal networking site: Is my IT company a factory? A factory — a manufacturing entity having the specified number of workforce — has to provide a crèche facility for its women employees. She was concerned, as space for a crèche could not be carved out in the high-end office complex where the company was based. Distributing cupcakes on Women’s Day won’t bridge the gender gap. Concrete practical measures alone will help.
17 Nov 2014
Private equity players and foreign funds have been showing strong interest in the infrastructure and logistics space in the six months since the new government came to power.
12 Nov 2014
Marquee private equity (PE) firms, which include Temasek Holdings Pvt. Ltd, Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd and KKR and Co. Llp, have stepped up their pace of investments in India although they continue to lag non-traditional investors like SoftBank Corp. and Tiger Global Management Llc, which have been more active so far this year.
12 Nov 2014
Every business has a lifecycle. There are very few businesses that survive through generations. Ensuring a smooth closure is one of the biggest tasks that a firm needs to undertake, says Harish H.V.
12 Nov 2014
Twenty minutes was all it took for Alibaba to clock its first $1 billion (Rs 6,100 crore) in sales during China’s biggest online shopping event, the ‘Singles Day Sale,’ on Tuesday.
10 Nov 2014
The aviation ministry will likely drop a rule requiring airlines to operate on domestic routes for five years before offering overseas flights, and sell shares in state-run airport operator Airports Authority of India (AAI) and chopper service Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd early next year.
10 Nov 2014
Assets with assured pipeline of fuel supplies, power sale pacts and land acquisition approvals on the radar.
09 Nov 2014
Private equity deals in India continue to see increased traction, with average monthly investments of $1 billion witnessed so far this year, led by information technology enabled services, infrastructure management and financial services sectors. With still two months to go, aggregate PE investments in 2014 till date stand at $9.87 billion, just a shade away from the $10.5 billion invested in entire calendar year 2013.
09 Nov 2014
With the government talking about a crackdown on unaccounted (‘black’) money, it is worthwhile to take a look at the laws meant to check its growth.
06 Nov 2014
Firms which are keen on testing Indian waters include Changyou.com, Alibaba’s online retail company Aliexpress and e-commerce firm JD.com