BSNL and Micromax have signed up a national deal for sale and distribution of 3G Data Cards to the BSNL subscribers.

The freshly launched BSNL 3G services are presently available in around 11 cities, and BSNL eyes to raise this reach to approx 700 cities by the next 2-3 months.

Singapore - Bayer Schering Pharma Asia-Pacific's sales grew 23 per cent to 910 million euros (1.3 billion US dollars) in 2008 despite the global economic downturn, the company's regional head, Chris Lee, said Tuesday in Singapore.

The growth rate, based on business numbers that excluded Japan, made the subsidiary of Germany-based Bayer Schering Pharma AG "one of the fastest-growing multinational pharmaceutical companies in Asia," Lee said.

In a bid to combat the problem of the current global economic crises, the fast moving consumer goods major, Unilever Group has decided to step up its cost cutting drive at the global level where it will concentrate more on protecting the cash flows.

Speaking with the media persons here on Friday, Paul Polman, Unilever’s CEO said that the company has appointed a Global Procurement Officer to handle this task. A common global procurement platform has also been drawn to meet the requirements of the FMCG major across the globe.

In a crucial move, Tube Investments of India Ltd (TII), a Murugappa group company, on Friday announced that said it has invested 1.5 billion rupees (Rs 150 crore) in Cholamandalam DBS Finance by subscribing to 1 per cent fully convertible cumulative preference shares (FCCPS) of DBS.

A top official working for the company said that the shares have since been allotted to both Tube Investments and DBS.

Reliance Communications (RCom), the part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is riding high these days.

The company announced that its total subscriber base has gone up to 69.38 million as it added 3.38 million new customers on both GSM and CDMA networks during the last month (Feb 2009).  

RCom had claimed over 5 million additions for the month of January (2009).

HP has joined hands with World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF) as the Green technology partner to launch Earth Hour 2009 in order to deal with the causes and consequences of climate change.

HP will partner with WWF- India in favor of the Earth Hour campaign to drive greater community consciousness and action around behaviour affecting climate change, cheering individuals and organizations to make a difference in the battle against global warming.