City-based textile manufacturer Arvind Mills Ltd has changed its name to Arvind Ltd. The name change is effective from May 10, the company announced Monday.

About 72 percent of the fruit and vegetable production in India goes waste because of lack of proper retailing and adequate storage capacity, an agriculture ministry official said here Monday.

Children's entertainment on television is set to get livelier this summer.

India's industrial production growth slowed to just three percent in March 2008, compared to a 14.8 percent growth in March 2007, according to government data released here Monday.

Indian equity markets that opened in the red Monday morning witnessed a choppy trade but managed a smart recovery in the second half of trading and closed in the green.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), celebrating 50 years of its establishment this year, Monday put across the message that its scientists were not immune to market forces and needed better remuneration.

Indian equties markets that opened in the red Monday and stayed in negative territory for much of the day staged a late recovery to close in the green. However, important sectoral indices like realty, automobiles, capitals goods, metals and power took a drubbing.

Former UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor's professional training academy will open at the Technopark campus here Wednesday.

With more hits from countries like China, Germany and Japan, the Incredible India website, the country's popular tourism campaign, has moved from the 100,000 rank to 25,000 in the World Wide Web Space.

Indian equities markets that opened in the negative zone Monday continued to trade flat in the afternoon due to selling pressure across key sectors. These included realty, metals, public sector undertakings, capital goods, and automobiles scrips.

The government is not planning to ban futures trading in more agricultural commodities, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said here Monday.

International internet protocol (IP) communications market leader Sonus Networks will expand Tata Communications' global voice network's reach and help in finding wireless and wireline infrastructural solutions.

The Indian equities markets that opened in the red Monday went on a further downslide in early trade, with selling pressure on realty, metals, consumer durables and oil and gas sectors.

Officials of the Tamil Nadu industries department, located on the Coromandel Coast, are known as 'investment whalers' - they coax industrial houses to set up units in the state.

US President George W. Bush's remark of the Indian middle class consuming more than ever before certainly seems to hold true at a busy highway eatery on the outskirts of Jalandhar city that attracts over 300 people an hour - or 7,000 every day!