New Delhi: In a major development, the French Parliament has unanimously adopted the civil nuclear agreement between India and France.

Pharmaceutical companies recently started looking at the potential benefits of using radio-frequency identification (RFID) to track finished products, though they have been making use of the RFID technology for years now in niche applications like tracking laboratory samples.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the biggest private-sector company in India, has confirmed that it has submitted to LyondellBasell Industries (LBI), a privately owned multinational chemical company based in the Netherlands, a preliminary non-binding offer to buy, in cash, a controlling interest in the latter once it emerges from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has issued a directive to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to make it mandatory for all oil-marketing companies to sell petrol mixed with 5% ethanol.

New Delhi: The Central Government has decided to hold an all-party meeting on November 23, 2009, to discuss the new policy on sugarcane after the Opposition parties jointly opposed the policy in the Lok Sabha and the sugarcane farmers demonstrated outside Parliament.

Ratan Tata, the head of India's most respected Tata group, has said that the next successor to the Tata group empire could be an expatriate, Wall Street Journal has reported.

According to a stock exchange announcement by Mahindra Satyam, on November 17, 2009, 37 companies have served legal notices to Satyam Computer Services (now Mahindra Satyam) seeking a repayment of Rs 1230.4 crores.

ING Vysya Life Insurance has launched a unit-linked investment solution, named ING Flexi Life Plus, which offers flexibility in payments of premium as well as the convenience to change premium amount during the term of the policy.

Nokia, the biggest maker of mobile phones in the world, is planning to launch soon its financial and banking services in India under the name ‘Nokia Money.’

IDBI Fortis Life Insurance has launched the Termsurance Protection Plan, which the company describers as a flexible protection plan that provides large insurance cover at an affordable cost.