UK royalty, Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, will make a nine day visit to India next month travelling to cities including Dehradun, New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Kochi. Read more
American retailer Walmart, which was one of the first retailers to have ambitious retail plans in India after the government’s FDI reforms, has discontinued its franchise agreement with Bharti Enterprises. Read more
A group of 24 senior Indian business leaders, government figures and academics including Ratan Tata, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Deepak Parekh and Sam Pitroda will guide and assist the research collaborations between Cambridge and Indian academics. Read more
Indian economist and former International Monetary Fund chief economist Raghuram Rajan has taken charge as the head of Indian central bank RBI on September 4, 2013 as former Governor D Subbarao’s five-year term comes to a close. Read more
Bollywood sensation Aishwarya Rai Bachchan sashayed as the brand ambassador for Lodha Real Estate Group’s Mumbai project in Worli called The Park. The actress inaugurated it and participated in the photo-shoot for The Park’s advertisement. Read more
British Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal’s firm ArcelorMittal has decided to scrap the construction of an integrated steel and power plant in Orissa’s Keonjhar district because of “significant external delays” and land acquisition complexities. Read more
The first ever international edition of IBFW (the Indian Bridal Fashion Week) will be held in London city, one of the global cities with a huge South Asian population. Read more
Indian rupee plummeted to a record low against the US dollar hitting 59.93, reacting to the announcement by the US Federal Reserve that it will scale back its monetary stimulus. Worldwide stock markets ended low on Thursday and Friday following the Federal Reserve’s pull-back strategy. Read more
Media firm Network18, which owns and runs CNN IBN news channel in India, is launching a news channel in the UK called News18 India starting July for British Asians. Read more
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is India on a three-day state visit, has praised IT giant Infosys which has become the first Indian company to start trading on NYSE Euronext London from February 20. Read more
