Multiplex chain Inox Leisure has revealed that it would invest over Rs 450 crore in the next couple of years to put up additional 206 screens across the country.

AEGON Religare Life Insurance has formed a strategic business partnership with Chennai-based TS Mahalingam & Sons (TSM).

Tata Sky, a joint venture between the TATA Group and STAR, has partnered with Bitstream Inc. to use its Panorama technology for recently released ‘Hindi electronic programming guide’ in the country.

Tata Advance System (TASL), an arm of the Tata Group, has made announcement that the company plans to invest Rs 80 billion for building an aerospace and precision engineering unit near Hyderabad which would be the first of its kind in India.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has revealed that the conglomerate is presently considering the acquisition of Czech power utility company Skoda Power.

India’s leading retail giant Future Group, has announced that it has inked a Joint Venture (JV) pact with UAE-based mobile retail company Axiom Telecom with the aim to build an all new dimension of innovation in the Indian mobile retail industry.

Educomp Solutions, a leading internationally diversified education solutions provider has informed that the company has acquired 51 percent stake for an unrevealed amount in Takshila Management Services.

India’s major sugar refiner Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd, has informed that the company has acquired 87% stake in Karnataka-based Gokak Sugars for Rs 693 million, in an attempt to access more refining capacity at a cheaper rate.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) announced it has won an order for 412 MW World Bank-funded hydro electric project in Himachal Pradesh

Parsvnath offers 5 star hotel at Ahmedabad

Wipro has tied up with Sun Microsystems to widen its reach within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia,

Reliance Power (R-Power) has joined hands with the IDBI Bank-led consortium of domestic banks to secure the debt portion for the second phase of the 600 mw Rosa Power project in UP`s Shahjahanpur district,

Norway to inject USD 2 bn in India`s stock market

Federal Bank, a private player, is planning to enter the wealth management space, especially for catering to its huge NRI clientele

GE Transportation, a unit of U.S. - based General Electric Company and a global diesel locomotive technology leader, and power equipment leader, Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), have joined hands to bid for a 1,000 diesel locomotives tender by the Indian Railways,

Credit rating agency ICRA and the Karur Vysya bank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which ICRA will assign ratings to the bank`s loans and its other exposures under the standardized approach of RBI`s new capital adequacy framework for base-II.

Pantaloon Retail India announced that its joint venture (JV) with Alpha Future Retail, the UK based Alpha Airport Group is still operative.

Areva T&D India`s Transmission and Distribution Division (T&D) has been awarded a contract worth 35 million euros with Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), a flagship unit of the ``Steel Authority of India`` (SAIL), the largest steel manufacturer in India. ..

What is debt market?

There is no single or fixed location or exchange where debt market participants transact. Also very sadly small investors have no role to play. Which means as a lay investor you can invest in equities (far more difficult to understand) but cannot invest in debt markets (easier to understand).

Dealings are done over phone, and confirmed by fax, email, etc. It is a virtual market (on the net). All the Indian stock exchanges (BSE, NSE and OTCEI) have a separate debt market segment. Debt markets deal with Government securities market and Bond markets.

Sadly in this market the only issue is the government of India. The government has a vested interest in keeping the interest rates low, and we cannot do anything about it!

Karuturi Global, a Bangalore-based floriculture company, has enteretd agriculture business in Ethiopia. The company will engage in cultivation of maize, rice, vegetables and other commercial crops in 11,700 acres of land in Bako area of Ethiopia.