While Toyota is under pressure for its brake and gas pedal recalls worlwide, the situation in India seems much rosier. Toyota is reaching out to Indian consumers with a four-month promotional tour of 10 cities launched last month. Its venture there, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, expects its sales to reach 65,000 units this year and to [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2010 by Gunjan
Through most of the last fifty years the United Kingdom has looked to Western Europe and the United States for trade and investment. But no more according to UK Trade and Investment. Between 2012 and 2014, the top ten export markets for the UK are predicted to be: China (1); US (2); India (3); Libya [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2010 by Gunjan
Larsen & Toubro and Malaysia’s Scomi Group are expected to commission the first phase of Mumbai Monorail, India’s first such system, by end of this year. The project involves design, construction, installation, testing and commissioning from Wadala and Chembur via Mahul (approximately 9 kilometres) in Phase I and Gadge Maharaj Chowk to Wadala (approximately 11 [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
The global financing storm hurt some more than others. According to Project Finance International he world’s top Initial Mandated Lead Arranger of project financing in 2009 was the State Bank of India’s SBI Capital Markets which loaned almost $20 billion for domestic financing projects. IDBI Bank of India was ranked 5th at almost $4 billion. [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
“The King of Bollywood” was in the United States to promote his latest movie called “My name is Khan” about discrimination against Muslims. Shah Rukh Khan and co-star Kajol participate in a video and audio inteview with Saja here http://www.sajaforum.org/2010/01/movies-shah-rukh-khan-in-my-name-is-khan-webcast.html
Posted on February 4th, 2010 by Gunjan
