INDIA

India's Tata Motors Ltd and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd have submitted revised bids for Ford Motor Co's Jaguar and Land Rover brands, CNBC-TV18 news channel reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.

The chance that developing countries would accept firm emissions-cutting targets receded on Friday, as U.N.-led talks to launch negotiations on a climate pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol inched forwards.

Coca-Cola Co said on Thursday Chief Operating Officer Muhtar Kent will succeed Neville Isdell as chief executive of the world's largest soft drink company on July 1, 2008.

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, India's largest drug maker by sales, expects strong growth in 2008 and would continue to look for acquisitions in India and abroad, Chief Executive Malvinder Singh said on Thursday.

Becoming mini-majors by making aggressive plans to acquire overseas oilfields and retail outlets could be a winning strategy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, as part of an expected major restructuring, on Wednesday said by 2010 it would cut its work force 10 percent and slash the number of its manufacturing plants by more than half, to generate an additional $1.5 billion in savings. The company is also planning to sell its medical imaging business and reviewing strategic alternatives for its wound healing unit. Sales would bring the company cash to boost its core pharmaceuticals business.

Prudential Financial Inc, one of the largest U.S. life insurers, and India's most valuable real estate firm, DLF, are to set up an asset management joint venture, the two firms said in a statement.

World's two fastest growing economies, China and India, have earned the dubious distinction of being home to some of the biggest polluting firms across the globe, according to a list published by Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA), a product of the Confronting Climate Change Initiative at the Center for Global Development, an independent think-tank located in Washington, DC.

Record stock highs and economic growth. Takeovers of European firms. Even cricket world trophies. This year, perhaps more than ever, India has bulged with self-confidence -- some say dangerous cockiness -- that underscores how executives, politicians and the middle-classes feel the global economic juggernaut is unstoppable.

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis SA said on Monday it had opened its first Asian pharmaceutical development centre in Goa, another sign of increasing interest in India from global drugmakers.

India's largest real estate firm, in terms of market capitalisation, DLF Ltd, said it will hold equal stakes with Adrian Zecha, founder of luxury hotel chain, Aman Resorts, in the Singapore-based company in a transaction valued at $400 million.

India Infoline Investment Services (IIIS) has announced that it has sold 22.5 percent stake to Singapore-based private equity investor Orient Global, founded by emerging markets expert Richard Chandler, for $76.7 million (Rs.300 crore).

Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has been named as the most powerful businessman by Fortune magazine in a list which also features Lakshmi Mittal, Indra Nooyi and Ratan Tata.

Russia will become Europe's biggest car market in 2009, overtaking Germany, Volkswagen's chief executive told reporters late on Wednesday during the group's official opening of its new plant in Kaluga outside of Moscow.

Microprocessor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) sees pricing in the chip market remaining competitive, and aims to return to profitability soon, Chief Executive Hector Ruiz said on Thursday.

A cyber cold war waged over the world's computers threatens to become one of the biggest threats to security in the next decade.

Indian fund assets could more than triple to $500 billion in the next five years, with half of that held in global products as investors seek diversified portfolios, the head of ING Groep's Indian fund arm said.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark 30-share sensitivity index, the Sensex, began the new week on a positive note ending up strongly 395 points at 19,248.

Tata Motors, a group company of India's leading tea-to-truck business conglomerate is reportedly ahead in the race to acquire ailing U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co.'s British luxury car brands Land Rover and Jaguar which was put up for sale earlier this year.

An Indian film will be released officially Friday in Pakistan, a first for two countries that have banned each other's films for more than three decades.

Nearly simultaneous explosions from homemade bombs planted outside courts in three northern Indian cities killed at least 13 people in what a senior government official said were terrorist strikes. Officials said 59 people were wounded in the blasts at Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow, all in the populous state of Uttar Pradesh. Many of the dead were lawyers.