Metal to oil conglomerate Vedanta Resources is hiring Lafarge’s industrial strategy head Samir Cairae to head its metal business.

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Since its inception, De Beers has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, the break-up of the USSR and the end of apartheid in South...

International Coal Ventures has formed a strategic tie-up with London-based company Anglo American for scouting for coking coal properties ...

De Beers, which produces more than a third of the world's diamonds, has agreed to move sorting and trading of the gems to Botswana by the e...

German leader Angela Merkel and businesswomen dominate Forbes magazine's new list of powerful women, while First Lady Michelle Obama and se...

British mining group Anglo American said on Friday it would cut 19,000 jobs this year after reporting a 29-per cent fall in 2008 net earnin...

Three Indian women have been named in "International Power 50" list complied by US magazine Fortune. Old Horses of India Inc | Tycoons with...

In the world of fairy tale, princess Rapunzel may have used the power of her long tresses to meet her prince charming, but today's powerful...

Indian American Indra Nooyi, the Chairman and CEO of Pepsico US, has been ranked as the third most powerful woman in the world by Forbes ma...

Anil Agrawal, founder and Chairman of Vedanta, has been ranked at 48th, while Philippe Varin, CEO of Corus is at 22nd. India Inc's hotshots...

Africa will probably show economic growth of 6.2 percent this year, a slower spread of the HIV/AIDS virus, fewer wars and kleptocrats.