Former Jharkhand chief minister and BJP leader Champai Soren was placed under house arrest on Sunday to prevent law and order issues in view of a protest by tribal outfits against land acquisition for a multi-crore state-run health institute, police said.
Firefighters are using hydraulic platforms to battle a massive blaze that broke out at Surat's Shiv Shakti textile market on Wednesday morning, destroying nearly half of the stores, officials said, adding that dousing operations are being carried out from the outside due to the building's unstable structure.
Gitanjali Datta of Maniabanda in Cuttack district had claimed that her husband Bijay Datta had died in the accident on June 2 and had even identified a body as her husband's.
While the opposition alliance is putting up a united front in Ghosi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand's Dumri, Dhanpur and Boxanagar in Tripura and Uttarakhand's Bageshwar, its constituents are contesting against each other in Dhupguri in West Bengal and Puthuppally in Kerala.
rivals Congress, JMM and TMC and Samajwadi Party.
The marble railing of the main mausoleum and red sandstone railings suffered damage due to thunderstorm.
At 64, the woman who will be India's 15th president, taking over from Ram Nath Kovind, will also be the youngest and India's first President to be born after Independence.
The rival promoter group and the entire block of public institutions voted against Basant Jhawar.
Due to his determination and his brother's efforts Basant Kumar Pandit is one step closer to attaining his dream.
Birla was the chairman of Century Textiles and Industries and had been active in business since the age of 15. He was instrumental in a slew of business initiatives, starting with his stint as the chairman of Kesoram Industries.
After withholding posting of its Ambassador-designate Basant Kumar Gupta to Rome, the government on Monday said further steps will be taken after completion of the review of bilateral ties with Italy.
India is downgrading its diplomatic ties with Italy and has asked its Ambassador-designate to that country Basant Kumar Gupta, who was scheduled to leave for Rome today, not to proceed to take up his posting.
Tourists are dismayed by the new rules, asserting that it would affect tourism.
Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce President Basant Kumar Patil announced a one-year ban on actress Ramya
A change is in the wings, though perhaps not right now, for Basant Kumar Birla's Kesoram Industries. Birla, who is 90 and the chairman, says his daughter, Manjushree Khaitan, will manage Kesoram, but under his grandson, Kumar Mangalam Birla.
Industrialist Ganga Prasad Birla died last night at 87 after a prolonged illness. His Rs 5,000-crore business included companies like Hindustan Motors, Orient Paper and Industries, Hyderabad Industries, Avtec and Nigeria Engineering Works.
Brigadier Basant Kumar Ponwar, the army's counter-Naxalite expert and director of Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare College, tells R Krishna Das that this is the right time to destroy the rebels militarily and dismantle their network.
The legal tussle between the Birlas and Lodha has taken another turn with Lodha filing a Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) defamation suit against the Birlas for alleged statements made against him.
Basant Kumar Birla, chairman of the Rs 8,000-crore (Rs 80 billion) BK Birla group, has altered his succession plan and at the hub of the change is the Rs 2,500-crore (Rs 25 billion) diversified company Kesoram Industries.
Koda, Basu and two accused public servants conspired to favour VISUL in the coal block allocation, the agency alleged.
Rather than going through the tedious, hit-or-miss process of physically designing hull forms and superstructures for warships and then determining how visible they are to radar, the company will simulate this process on supercomputers.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, ex-Coal Secretary H C Gupta, former Jharkhand chief secretary Ashok Kumar Basu and six others were on Tuesday ordered to be put on trial by a special court on charges of corruption, criminal conspiracy and cheating in connection with a coal block allocation scam case.
Birla family patriarch Basant Kumar Birla on Tuesday said two of his companies, Century Textiles and Century Enka, would go to grandson, Kumarmangalam Birla
"We are sure that the will is fabricated and so are going to challenge it in the court of law," highly-placed sources in B K Birla group said on Wednesday.
The fierce litigious fight for little-known Birla Corporation marked the first major controversy for this storied and reserved business family.
Birla Corporation has grown from a Rs 1,763-crore company to Rs 3,200 crore; profitability, however, has suffered due to the slowdown.
The company had appointed a three-member committee of directors to implement the changes.
The CBI on Friday told a special court that former coal secretary H C Gupta had allegedly concealed facts from then prime minister Manmohan Singh.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, ex-Jharkhand chief secretary Ashok Kumar Basu and six others have been chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a coal block allocation scam case.
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