A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of CIGNA Life Insurance New Zealand Limited
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Business Weekly -- A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of "a-" of CIGNA Life Insurance...
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Uday Kotak is Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Rs 13,000 crore Kotak Mahindra Group, which he built from scratch in just two and a half decades. In an exclusive interview with...
View ArticleRaging Bull ; Most Market Players Expect the Stock Rally to Continue in 2013
Investors can expect the 2012 stock market rally to continue well into 2013. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex was up 24 per cent till December 14, 2012 from the start of the year. There is...
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Texting is 20 years old and in a mid-life crisis. SMS (short message service) is the world's most popular data service, with 3.6 billion active mobile phone users, or about 75 per cent of all users....
View ArticleOn Record/Narendra Modi's Re-Election ; the Stability in the State (Gujarat)...
The stability in the state (Gujarat) will enhance the confidence of industry and herald new investmentsAdi Godrej, President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), to AgenciesIt is a vote for...
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How does Chennai do it? More than 3,000 South Indian classical music concerts, organised by 135 cultural associations, featuring 1,000 artists, all in a month. At the heart of it is an innovative...
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He's already got an economic dream team ready for next year's Budget. But the question on everybody's lips is: will Finance Minister P. Chidambaram pull off another dream Budget the way he did nearly...
View ArticleMarriage of Inconvenience ; Mahindra Satyam Will Merge with Tech Mahindra,...
Mahindra Satyam's annual report for 2011/12 runs into 152 pages. Amid the hundreds of figures and explanations, it is easy to miss the balance sheet entry of Rs 1,230.4 crore on page 42. But that...
View ArticleThe Other Bajaj ; Five Years after the Bajaj Demerger, Profits at Sanjiv...
He began his career on the shopfloor of Tata Motors before joining the family firm, Bajaj Auto. At that point, Sanjiv Bajaj must have assumed he would spend most of his life among vehicles, be they of...
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It becomes apparent within 10 minutes of speaking with Zahabiya Khorakiwala, Managing Director of Wockhardt Hospitals, that she is being very careful of what she says. Every time she is asked a...
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Having completed his MBBS, Vaibhav Rastogi worked as a doctor for four years, but then decided to enroll for another course at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), New Delhi. In...
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There is no doubt that we are now in the post-personal computer era. Phones and tablets have become the primary Internet devices globally. We use the PC only when smaller devices cannot do a particular...
View ArticleMaldives Setback Could Worsen GMR's Airport Woes ; for G.M. Rao, the...
First generation entrepreneur Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao was also the first Indian businessman to enter the airport infrastructure sector. He bagged the contract to build a new airport in Hyderabad, the...
View ArticleCash Transfer Scheme Still Needs Fine-Tuning ; Implementing the Cash Transfer...
In the labyrinthine lanes of Chawri Bazar in Old Delhi stands a Gender Resource Centre (GRC) of the Delhi government's 'Mission Convergence'. Along with over 100 other such centres, it is tasked with...
View Article'Ratan Tata Would Never Thump the Table' ; Former Tata Steel MD J.J. Irani...
I hardly knew Ratan Tata when he did an early stint in Jamshedpur. He left within a few months of my reaching Jamshedpur in early 1968. In the 1970s, we interacted while he was in charge of Nelco. His...
View ArticleRemembrance of Times Past ; Business Todaywas Launched in January 1992, Soon...
Business Today was launched in January 1992, soon after Ratan Tata became the helmsman of the Tata Group. Indeed, the first issue featured Ratan Tata on the cover. A collage of BT's reportage on Tata...
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Ever since India-born Rakesh Kapoor took over as CEO of the UK- headquartered 9.5-billion-pound Reckitt Benckiser Plc in August 2011, the company - behind brands such as Dettol, Disprin and Cherry...
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