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Joe Biden looks to restore, expand Obama administration policiesThe Democratic presidential nominee is promising to reverse Trump policy moves on things such as withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climat...
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It is a good time for the government to kick its bad habitSUUTI made a profit of Rs 3,940 crore selling shares in L&T.
19 Oct, 2018, 11.35 AM IST
ITC explains how it plans to diversify business through FMCG bold playThese days, ITC's top brass rarely talks about cigarettes, its bottom line mainstay. Most of the co's communication & investments are aroun...
16 Apr, 2018, 03.40 PM IST
GST: States get into the act, toss out Congress' demandsJaitley said there is "no deadline as such" for the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax which aims to subsume a string of state an...
15 Jun, 2016, 12.53 AM IST
Government looking to give services to deserving and plug leakages after passage of Aadhaar BillAadhaar forms the backbone of the current government’s JAM (Jan Dhan frills-free bank accounts, Aadhaar, Mobile phones for transactions.
22 Mar, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Zeltner Committee report in 2000: A bombshell on tobacco industryChitra Subramaniam Duella offers an insider's view of how a few committed men and women at the WHO battled Big Tobacco. Excerpts from an up...
02 Jun, 2013, 06.03 AM IST
- Goa's unusual stories on state's business, politics and Russian mafia
Elections got over in this most unusual of Indian states. Fittingly, therefore, here's a flavour of Goa through three very unusual stories.
05 Mar, 2012, 11.15 AM IST
- Radia tapes: Lobbying needs to be monitored, regulated and made transparent
Where does lobbying end and corruption begin? For society to know the answer, the practice of lobbying needs to be brought out of the shado...
16 Dec, 2010, 01.13 AM IST
- Taxes on tobacco in India lowest in Asia Pacific
Tax levied by India on tobacco products is among the lowest in the entire Asia Pacific region, and at variance with the World Health Organi...
11 Oct, 2010, 06.58 AM IST
- Leela patriarch charts plan to protect empire
With ITC breathing down his neck, Hotel Leelaventure chairman Krishnan Nair has put in place a plan that he hopes will keep the hospitality...
08 Sep, 2010, 05.45 AM IST
- Kraft seeks manufacturing allies in India
Kraft Foods, the world’s second largest foods company, is in talks with at least three biscuit makers including Cremica group and Surya Foo...
26 Jul, 2010, 01.02 AM IST
- ITC checking into Hotel Leela?
The talk on the Street is that the Nairs, the promoters of Hotel Leela, have been approached by the tobacco-to-hotel conglomerate ITC to se...
20 Jan, 2010, 05.41 AM IST
- Bush is tough on sanctions over nuclear, terror acts in Iran
US exports to Iran grew more than tenfold during Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists.
08 Jul, 2008, 12.30 PM IST
- Challenges for Corporate India in 2008
ET presents a snapshot of the challenges facing India Inc’s best and brightest, just as the world’s spotlight is upon them.
02 Jan, 2008, 03.14 AM IST
- Time to get tough with tobacco giants: WHO
A top World Health Organisation official on Monday urged the world to get tough with tobacco companies, saying smoking deaths are an intern...
10 Sep, 2007, 10.15 AM IST
- Debt-shy Asian companies are like cash machines
The world’s richest Indian recently lost an opportunity to get even richer.
08 Jun, 2007, 01.09 AM IST