January 12, 2008 – 12:37 am
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www.expressindia.com By : Aiswarya-A
Pune’s Zoroastrian entrepreneurs will have a reason to celebrate this weekend as the city gears up to play host to over 200 Zoroastrian businesspersons and professionals across the country and the world. The occasion is the annual general meeting of rare chamber of commerce — the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce’s (WZCC) — where veterans get to meet novices, potential business partners get to strike deals.
Going by past records, what ensues are enriching discussions on various sectors like manufacturing, IT and financial services where the participants exchange tips, discuss problems and even secure funding for their ventures. According to the organisers, some of Read More »
September 16, 2007 – 2:49 am
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www.commodityonline.com By : Sreekumar Raghavan
... the seeds of organised modern spinning industry were laid in Bombay in 1851 by a Parsi, Cowasji Manobhoy Davar, called Bombay Spinning and Weaving Mills. Thereafter it was Ahmedabad’s turn to become a leading textiles destination followed closely by Tamil Nadu. ...
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Coimbatore, the land of mills and fabric, has a passion — a desire to dress up the whole world. For this, the city — new Manchester of India — is now busy weaving a colourful dream for the 11th Five Year Plan. During this Plan period, India is expected to witness a major boom in the industry with an expected investment of $110 billion. So, the textile headquarters of the region, Coimbatore, will soon be churning out lakhs of metres of fabric to clothe millions of people. Read More »
August 15, 2007 – 7:23 pm
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www.expressmoney.in By : Deepti Bhaskaran And Sandeep Singh
... When India got her independence, banks were mostly controlled by business houses or communities. For instance, PNB was set up Lala Lajpat Rai, Central Bank of India by the Parsis ...
If they believed in numerology or cosmic signs, the Mahnas would pin down number ‘5’ as theirs. That one digit is conspicuously present in the first payslips across three generations of Mahnas. When Harbans Lal Mahna joined government Read More »
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www.nysun.com By : BROOK MASON
... The sari was woven and sewn in China for a member of the Bombay-based Parsee trading community, indicating the reach of those traders across Asia. It boasts a $10,000 price tag. ...
The Asian art and antiques market is changing quickly, a fact that is made clear by a visit to the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show. Open through Saturday and now in its 16th year, it is the oldest such specialty show in Manhattan. Staged at the Gramercy Park Armory on Lexington Avenue at 26th Street, the fair boasts top international dealers, finer-quality objects, and higher attendance than ever before. Read More »
Intelligent Business Systems (IBS), the Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Business Competitiveness Solutions firm, today announced that IBS Bespoke Solutions Pvt. Ltd. [A] subsidiary of Intelligent Business Systems Pvt Ltd in India, was chosen by Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank as their preferred vendors for their IT infrastructure needs.
As part of the deal, IBS Bespoke Solutions will offer Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank Consultancy services, Complete Hardware Infrastructure and Annual Maintenance services for the Head Office and all branches of Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank. IBS Bespoke Solutions will set up a firm IT backbone including complete networking infrastructure, data centres, branch communications, etc, with the Core Banking Software (CBS) solution being provided by Infrasoft.
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February 26, 2007 – 8:40 am
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www.thebusinessonline.com By : Richard Orange
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IT HAD been the tensest 30 minutes of their lives. Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, and B Muthuraman, managing director of Tata Steel, had been staring out over the dark expanse of the Arabian Sea for what seemed like an eternity.
Five time zones away, bankers in London were locked in a knife-edge bidding auction for Corus, the Anglo-Dutch group built from the bones of the former British Steel in 1999. Would Tata’s 608p-a-share final offer, valuing Corus at £6.2bn ($12.1bn, €9.2bn), be enough to defeat Brazil’s Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN)?
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