
New Delhi: The Company Law Board has allowed Unitech Ltd's plea to refer a dispute over its telecoms joint venture with Norway's Telenor for arbitration in Singapore, potentially delaying a resolution. Telenor said in a statement it was "surprised" by the Company Law Board's order and would challenge it in a higher court, adding its intention remained to establish a new venture in India. Telenor is seeking to scrap the...

04:01 PM, Apr 12, 2012

Mumbai: Unitech Ltd said it has applied to a local court seeking to restrain Norway's Telenor from investing in any new telecoms venture in India that would compete with companies' existing joint venture. Unitech, a property company, is also seeking an injunction against Telenor's plans to transfer the joint venture's business to a new company, it said in a statement on Friday, adding the move was aimed at protecting its...

02:50 AM, Mar 31, 2012

Chennai: Taking the state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) by surprise, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday scrapped the 1,600 MW power joint venture with it and announced that the government would fully fund the project itself. In a statement issued here on Friday, Jayalalithaa said there had been no progress in the Rs.8,000 crore power project after the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in 2007 between...

06:03 PM, Feb 24, 2012

New Delhi: The government on Thursday approved Defence Ministry guidelines for its public sector units (PSUs) to establish joint ventures with private firms, a step that will increase opportunities to obtain advanced technologies from foreign sources. "The Union Cabinet today approved the guidelines for establishing Joint Venture Companies by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs). The guidelines contain provisions for important matters that are critical from a national security perspective," an...

02:46 PM, Feb 09, 2012

Tokyo: Sony Corp has agreed to sell its nearly 50 per cent stake in an LCD joint venture with Samsung Electronics to Samsung for $940 million, the Korean firm said on Monday, as Sony struggles to staunch red ink at its TV business. The venture cut its capital by 15 per cent in July and industry sources had said Sony was negotiating an exit, aiming to switch to cheaper outsourcing...

01:54 PM, Dec 26, 2011

Tokyo: Sony Corp has agreed to end its LCD joint venture with Samsung Electronics and will sell its stake to the South Korean company, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. The decision comes after Sony in November warned of a fourth straight year of losses, with its television unit alone set to lose $2.2 billion on tumbling demand and a surging yen. The Japanese TV maker at...

12:12 PM, Dec 26, 2011

Mumbai: French lender BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) will pay Rs 405 million to buy out its Indian institutional broking business from local partner Geojit Financial Management Services, the Indian company said on Thursday. The joint venture, catering to domestic and foreign institutional clients, was set up after the French lender bought a strategic stake in the retail broking business of Geojit Financial Services, which is now Geojit BNP Financial Services (GEOJ.NS)....

09:40 AM, Dec 09, 2011

Mumbai: Reliance Industries has mutually agreed to end negotiations with Bharti Enterprises to buy its stakes in two insurance joint ventures with France's AXA, the two companies said on Friday. Reliance said the negotiations to acquire Bharti's 74 per cent stakes in the life insurance and general insurance joint ventures were terminated as it was "unable to reach agreement on the long-term vision and joint governance of the ventures" with...

09:08 PM, Nov 25, 2011

Chennai: The Centre's expert committee, set up to allay fears of locals over the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power plant, will meet on Monday. This will be the first time that the Centre's 15-member expert panel is meeting after anti-KNPP activists announced setting up of a 21-member committee, comprising scientists and others, to interact with state and central officials besides advising them on the future course of action. "It's a good...

12:50 PM, Nov 07, 2011

Tokyo: Sony Corp is in talks to buy Telefon AB LM Ericsson out of their 50:50 joint venture, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday. Another source had told Reuters in July that talks about a takeover were under way ahead of the end of the two firms' contract this month. Sony and Ericsson have been talking for weeks about the future of the venture...

09:52 AM, Oct 07, 2011

New Delhi: UK-based telecom major Vodafone Group today said it has exercised its option to acquire Essar's stake in their joint venture, Vodafone Essar, which will result in a cash flow of $5 billion for the Indian firm. "Vodafone Group announces that the Essar Group has exercised its underwritten put option over 22 per cent of Vodafone Essar Limited (VEL). Following the exercise by the Essar Group of its put...

02:57 PM, Mar 31, 2011

The 26-year long joint venture between the Hero Group and the Honda Group has come to an end. ...

10:12 PM, Dec 16, 2010

New Delhi: Breaking its 26-year old joint venture - Hero Honda, Munjals-promoted Hero Group, on Thursday, said it will buy the entire 26 per cent stake of its Japanese partner Honda in the company for an undisclosed amount. The Hero Group and Honda hold 26 per cent each in Hero Honda that started operations in 1984 to become the world's largest two-wheeler maker today. As part of a new licensing...

07:08 PM, Dec 16, 2010

New Delhi: The 25-year long joint venture between the Hero group and the Honda group is set to come to an end, sources said. According to sources, the board of Hero Corp has approved the joint-venture termination. Hero Corp will now acquire 26 per cent stake from Honda for $1-1.2 billion. The royalty likely to be paid is between Rs 2300 crore and Rs 2400 crore over three to four...

05:35 PM, Dec 15, 2010

The joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra and Renault was established in 2005. ...

06:16 PM, Apr 16, 2010