According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.2450-7.4250 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then rose to 7.4550-7.4850 UAH/USD, and rose to 7.4550-7.4950 UAH/USD by the end of the trading.

The government is also evolving a comprehensive strategy to minimise any adverse impact of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai on tourism. Countries like the US, Britain, France and Australia on Thursday advised their citizens to defer travel to India's commercial

The company's managing director R Subramanian told PTI in Chennai that the stores would hold products like laptops, printers, computers apart from mobile phones.

Besides, the Vikram Pandit-led bank has hinted at further job cuts in the coming days, after already having cut down or announced plans to bring down its workforce to below 3,00,000 employees from more than 3,75,000 at the end of

FMCG major Dabur India has decided to hold back the expansion plan of its newly launched retail arm with an aim of capitalising more from further downslide in retail rentals that the company is expecting.

The company, however, did not specify how much capital it has planned to raise from the public through this initiative and also the purpose for such a step. This is the first time since 1995 that Tata Motors is borrowing

India-ASEAN Summit, scheduled for December 17 in Thailand, has been postponed as crisis-ridden South-East Asian country is unable to host the meet.

In this regard, AIG has entered into an agreement with Aabar Investments PJSC to sell its subsidiary, the insurance firm said in a statement on on Monday. According to UK daily The Telegraph, the Swiss subsidiary would be sold for

Air India has decided to reduce fuel surcharge on all domestic flights by Rs 400 with effect from Tuesday.

Move aimed at forcing airlines to revoke decision to withdraw 5 per cent commission.

JP Morgan Chase is planning to slash nearly 21 per cent of workforce and lay off 4,000 employees by January at Washington Mutual, which was acquired by the investment banking major in September.

Barely five days after the Nigerian currency, the naira, recorded its first major depreciation (99 kobo) in the last three years at the inter-bank foreign exchange market, it continued its free fall yesterday, losing N7 against the United States dollar.

The Rwanda Franc recorded a stable regime throughout the first half of 2008, depreciating by only 0.1 percent, against the United States, a government official has said.

Sakaal Times is in the news for the wrong reasons. The paper has shut down its Delhi office leaving a little over 60 people jobless.

Wipro said on Monday that offers made by it to some of the campus recruits to join the company's BPO division is optional and in no way intended to pressure them to join the outsourcing section.

The trip, scheduled to start on January 2, 2009, would take one on an 11-day trip of splendour amid exotic locales of goa to end with entertainment extravaganza with bollywod. The previliged tourists would spend three nights and four days

Tatas' drive into Sanand area for their Nano project has given a major fillip to Mumbai-based real estate major K Raheja Corp to set up its support infrastructure projects in the area.

However, the company's cumulative sales (including exports) in November were up by 48.89 per cent to 43,105 units compared with 28,950 units in the year-ago period, HMIL said. Its exports for the month rose by nearly three-fold to 28,500 units,

The sharp fall in commercial vehicle (CV) sales has forced automobile giant Tata Motors to again shut its Pune plant for six days this month. The CV plant will be out of action from December 5 to 7 and again