NSE Ups Stake To 25% In NSDL

The bourse picked up an additional 9.42% stake in NSDL from the Specified Undertaking of The Unit Trust of India.

Reliance Out Of Race For Canada Firm

Reliance had made a $2 billion takeover bid for majority stake in Value Creation early this year....

Godrej Consumer Products Buys Nigerian Brand Tura

Tura is owned by the UK-based Lornamead Group, which last year sold Yardley for $45.5 million to Wipro....

Triveni Engineering To Demerge Steam Turbine Biz

The move to hive off this business is targeted at raising funds for the demerged entity....

Phillips-Van Heusen To Buy Hilfiger For $3 Billion

Tommy Hilfiger is currently owned by private equity firm Apax Partners....

HCC To Buy 66% Stake In Swiss Firm

HCC is expecting to close the deal in the first quarter of FY 2010-11....

Vishal Retail Calls Off Merger With Private Arm

This merger would have pushed up promoter holding in the listed company and brought additional assets too....

Concurrent India Buys Stake In Maintenance Firm Kazi Aviation

Kazi has operations in five airports including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. ...

Fortis Buying 23.9% In Parkway Holdings For $685M

It is the first significant overseas acquisition by an Indian firm in the healthcare services space....

Siva Buys 50% Stake in Norwegian Mineral Water Firm

The deal is a joint venture with Sabco, a premier water brand in Middle East, and involves an outlay of $22 million....

Aditya Birla Minacs Acquires UK's Compass BPO

This is the second acquisition of Minacs in the last one month....

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