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AIR INDIA

Air India (Hindi: एअर इंडिया) is a state-owned flag carrier, the oldest and the largest airline of India. It is a part of the Indian government-owned Air India Limited (AIL) which is renamed as Air India Ltd. The airline operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Its corporate office is located at the Air India Building at Nariman Point in South Mumbai. It is the 16th largest airline in Asia[dubious – discuss]. Air India has two major domestic hubs at Indira Gandhi International Airport and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. A international hub at Dubai International Airport is currently being planned.[1]
Star Alliance announced on 13 December 2007 that it had invited Air India to join as a member and it is expected to become a member sometime in 2011.[2][3]


Air India International entered the jet age in 1960 when its first Boeing 707-420, named Gauri Shankar (registered VT-DJJ), was delivered. Jet services to New York City via London were inaugurated that same year on 14 May 1960. On 8 June 1962, the airline's name was officially truncated to Air India. On 11 June 1962, Air India became the world's first all-jet airline.
 
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indiGO AIRLINES

IndiGo is a private domestic low-cost airline based in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.[1] It operates domestic services linking 25 destinations. Its main base is Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.[2] It was awarded the title of Best Domestic Low Cost Carrier in India for 2008.[3]

IndiGo placed an order for 100 Airbus A320 family aircraft during the 2005 Paris Air Show. The total order was worth US$6 billion, one of the highest by any domestic carrier during the show.[9][10] The carrier has set a target of serving approximately 30 Indian cities by 2010 with a fleet size of 40 A320 aircraft. The airline will receive all 100 A320 family aircraft by 2015-2016.[11] The Indian Government has approved the airline's aircraft import plan "in principle".
IndiGo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for an additional 180 Airbus A320 including 150 A320 New Engine Option (NEO) aircraft on January 11, 2011. This is the largest order of its kind in commercial aviation history.[12] The aircraft will be delivered between 2016 and 2025.[13]
 
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AMRUTANJAN HEALTHCARE LTD

Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited is an Indian pharmaceutical company specialising in Ayurvedic balm for headaches, cold and cough. It was established by freedom-fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao in Mumbai in 1893. Though it has diversified its range of products, it is still renowned for the Amrutanjan pain balm which is one of the most widely used medicines for headaches all over India.
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ABAN OFFSHORE LTD

Aban Offshore Ltd. (formerly Aban Loyd Chiles Offshore Ltd.) is India's largest offshore drilling services provider to oil companies, mainly for ONGC. It is now ventured into international waters as one of its five rigs is doing work for an Iranian oil company. The company listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange Ltd, [1] [2] Reji Abraham, Managing Director of Aban Loyd is the 605th richest man in the world and the richest man in Kerala, India. [3] [4]
The group has also ventured into construction, offshore and onshore drilling, wind energy and power generation, Information Technology enabled services, hotels and resorts, tea plantations and in marketing.
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ABG shipyard

ABG Shipyard Limited (NSE: ABGSHIP, BSE: 532682) is the largest private-sector shipyard in India.[2] The company was established in 1985 and other than shipbuilding the group has business interest in port development, container terminal management, crane manufacturing as well as rental and cement production.

ABG Shipyard is headquartered in Mumbai. It has its main operations in Surat,Dahej Gujarat and a world class ship repair unit at Goa named Western India Shipyard. two huge ship building yards are coming up one at suva near Bhavnagar and another with collboration with Nigerian government at Nigeria.
It has also floated in ABG cement ltd., and two cement plants are under construction at thumdi, kutch, and Hazira near Surat Gujarat. Both these plants will have a total capacity of 6.6 million tonnes per annum
 
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ADANI GROUP

The Adani Group (BSE: 512599) is a Gujarat based Indian conglomerate with the industrialist Gautam Adani as its CMD and promoter.[1] The core business of the group is Commodities Trading, edible oil Manufacturing, Mundra port operations and distribution of Natural Gas. Adani group has more than 50 companies under it

Adani Enterprises in August bought a coal mine in Australia for about Rs 12,600 crore (Rs 126 billion) in a cash and royalty deal. It will invest $6.9 billion in developing its recently acquired Australian coal mines. Group will develop mine, rail and port project in its Galilee Basin coal mine in Queensland, Australia to produce up to 60 million tonnes of coal a year at its peak. [1]

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ADITYA BIRLA GROUP

The Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India.[4] It operates in over 27 countries with more than 130,000 employees worldwide.[5] The group has diversified business interests and is dominant player in all the sectors in which it operates such as viscose staple fibre, metals, cement, viscose filament yarn, branded apparel, carbon black, chemicals, fertilisers, insulators, financial services, telecom, BPO and IT services.
The Aditya Birla group is a US$ 30 billion conglomerate which gets 60 % of its revenues from outside India.[2] The Aditya Birla Group has been adjudged the best employer in India and among the top 20 in Asia by the Hewitt-Economic Times and Wall Street Journal Study 2007.[6] The origins of the group lie in the conglomerate once held by one of India's foremost industrialists Mr. Ghanshyam Das Birla.

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The Group is the fourth largest manufacturer of Carbon Black worldwide.[11] It operates out of facilities in Egypt, Thailand, India and China.
Birla has also announced their intentions to purchase Columbian Chemicals Co. Press Release
 
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HINDALCO

Hindalco Industries Ltd. (BSE: 500440) is one of the world's largest Aluminium manufacturing company and is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group.[3] It is run by one of the world's youngest billionaires, Mr. K.M. Birla.

The company has annual sales of $ 5 billion and employs 13,675 people and is listed on Forbes 2000. A metals powerhouse with a turnover of US$ 14 billion, Hindalco is one of the world's largest aluminium rolling company and one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia.[4]

On February 11, 2007, the company entered into an agreement to acquire the Canadian company Novelis for U$6 billion, making the combined entity the world's largest rolled-aluminium producer.[5] On May 15, 2007, the acquisition was completed with Novelis shareholders receiving $44.93 per outstanding share of common stock.
Hindalco, through its wholly owned subsidiary AV Metals Inc., acquired 75,415,536 common shares of Novelis, representing 100 percent of the issued and outstanding common shares. Immediately after closing, AV Metals Inc. transferred the common shares of Novelis to its wholly owned subsidiary AV Aluminum Inc.
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GRASIM INDUSTRIES

Grasim Industries Limited (BSE: 500300|NSE: GRASIM) is a Aditya Birla Group company that started in 1948 and which started as a textile manufacturer. Since then Grasim has successfully diversified into Viscose Staple Fiber (VSF), cement, sponge iron and chemicals [3]Grasim is one of its flagship companies and It is the world’s second largest producer of Viscose Rayon Fiber with about 21% market share. Textile and related products contributes to 15% of the group turnover
 
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IDEA CELLULAR

Idea Cellular, usually referred to as Idea, is a wireless telephony company operating in all the 22 telecom circles in India based in Mumbai.
 
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ULTRATECH CEMENT

UltraTech Cement Limited (BSE: 532538) is a India's biggest cement company[3] and India’s largest exporter of cement clinker based in Mumbai, India.[4] The company is part of Aditya Birla Group. It has an annual capacity of 52 million tonnes. It manufactures and markets Ordinary Portland Cement, Portland Blast Furnace Slag Cement and Portland Pozzalana Cement. It also manufactures ready mix concrete (RMC). The export markets span countries around the Indian Ocean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. It is part of Grasim Group.[5][6]
UltraTech Cement Limited has 12 integrated plants, 11 grinding units in India and 1 clinkerization plant and 4 grinding units outside India.
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ador powertron


Ador Powertron Limited, India was started in 1977 as the Industrial Electronics and Power control division (IEPC) of M/S Advani Oerlikon Ltd. (AOL).[1] APL was born in January 1995 with the objective of separating out IEPC operations with specific growth initiative from AOL. APL commenced business operations in April 1995 on an area of 22,000 square metres. The plant facilities are built on 3400 m² space. Equity base of Rs 61 million and technology know-how base of Rs 55 million are the initial foundation strengths of APL. Every ADOR GROUP Company has its own area of specialisation and core competence. The Group endeavour is both diverse and integrated – as indicated by the individual company profiles provided herein.
Ador Powertron provides following product and services:-
 
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afteks

Aftek (previously Aftek Infosys, BSE: 530707, NSE: AFTEK, LuxSE: AFTK}is an Indian offshore IT services company headquartered at Mumbai, India.[1][2] It is a Public limited company, listed in the main stock exchanges of India - Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1986 and went public in 1995.[3] Since 2003, its Global Depository Receipts have been listed in the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.[4][5]
 
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ALANG SHIP RECYCLING YARD

Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. In the past three decades, its beaches have become a major worldwide centre for ship breaking.

The shipyards at Alang recycle approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world

Japan and the Gujarat government have joined hands to upgrade the existing Alang shipyard. The two parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which focuses on technology transfer and financial assistance from Japan to assist in the upgrading of operations at Alang to meet international standards. This is a part of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a larger partnership between the Japanese and Gujarati governments. Under this plan, Japan will address the environmental implications of ship breaking in Alang, as well as devising a marketing strategy. The project is to be carried out as a public-private partnership. The project's aim is to make this shipyard the largest International Maritime Organization-compliant ship recycling yard in the world.
 
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ALLAHABAD BANK

Allahabad Bank (Hindi: इलाहाबाद बैंक), which began operations in 1865, now has its head-quarters in Kolkata. Currently the bank has 2402 branches across the country.[1] The Chairman and Managing Director of the bank is Shri J P Dua. The bank has a branch in Hong Kong and a representative office in Shenzen. The bank's internet banking is maintained by EBankWorks Team of TCS.
 
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