BEML, a state-owned company which makes heavy equipment used in mining and infrastructure projects, announced that it has entered the Thai market. It has appointed a distributor Paragon Machinery as its distributor in the country and Paragon will market BEML products –such as loaders, excavators, dump trucks, and dozers in Thailand and neighbouring countries such as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.

The ASI’s monuments in India are doing brisk business as both Indians and foreigners flock to sample India’s history and culture. Revenues from tickets at monuments rose by about 12% to Rs 87 crore in 2010-11.

Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan’s tribute to his wife Mumtaz Mahal, is the country’s top tourist attraction. The data from Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on revenue from entrance fees at Indian monuments owned by the government, shows that Taj Mahal alone grossed around 23% of the total earnings for in 2010-11, at about Rs 20 crore.

Future Ventures India, the listed investment company of the Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, has increased its stake in Amar Chitra Katha Private Limited to 56%, from 26% held till now. Earlier, its financials would have been consolidated as an associate of Future Ventures, but now it will reflect in its revenues and profits as well, under what is known as the line-by-line method of consolidation.

Engineering company Larsen & Toubro has got an Rs 1,210 crore order to set up a 13 power sub-stations in Qatar. Its power and transmission division has got this order which has to be executed between 18 and 26 months. This is a relatively small order compared to its existing book of Rs 130,217 crore worth of orders in hand.