Fresh from its acquisition of a 51% stake in Tamil movies distributor Ayngaran International,  Bollywood producer and distributor Eros International is bolstering its acquisition capabilities. Eros today disclosed that Citigroup Global Markets had underwritten a $100 million 5-year facility to finance acquisitions. Eros CEO Kishore Lulla is bullish on the opportunities in the market for Indian entertainment […]
Media house Times Group’s new YoList classifieds web site has debuted, adding to the clutter in this online advertising segment. YoList has been launched in beta (trial version) and currently all ads posted on the web site are free. Registered users of Times Group’ portal IndiaTimes.com can use their existing user id and password to access the […]
Yes, of course. And so do most governments including India. To believe anything else would be naive. Who can forget the horrifying news reports in the late 1970s of policemen pouring acid into the eyes of undertrial prisoners in Bhagalpur (located in the North Indian state of Bihar) or the recent video footage of a […]
Japanese car and pickup manufacturer Toyota is looking to sell 10.4 million vehicles in 2009 partly by significantly ramping up sales in India, China, Russia and Brazil. According to a story in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Toyota wants to quadruple sales in India to 200,000 vehicles by 2010. Toyota’s equally ambitious about the Chinese market, where […]
Some 31 odd years back, we watched Sholay for the first time in a small town in the hinterlands of south India. Sholay was like nothing we’d ever seen before. It had a fearsome villain who quickly became a household name, fine music, moving romance and above all non-stop action that kept us glued to […]
The New York Times has an interesting piece today on India’s growing appetite for military weapons. According to the NYT piece, India wants to spend a humongous amount of money on its military in the near future: Over the next five years, military analysts expect the country to spend as much as $40 billion on […]