Has Modi -- after announcing the life-crushing demonetisation, the abrogation of Article 370 and the CAA/NPR/NRC without any consultation -- suddenly realised the value of taking everyone on board, asks Krishna Prasad.
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal will promote Indian Premier League champions Deccan Chargers after she was made brand ambassador of the media group which owns the team. The 20-year-old Hyderabadi signed a three-year deal with Deccan Chronicle at a glittering function in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Australia's Andrew Symonds became the most expensive foreign player after round three in the Indian Premier League players' auction after Deccan Chronicle's Hyderabad franchise bought the all-rounder for US $1.35 million.
Deccan Chronicle Group has put Deccan Chargers, the Hyderabad-based Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team, on the block within 10 months of acquiring it.
The third quarter numbers show the effect of the slowdown on the media business. There is a decline in net profits and margins for a sample of 16 listed companies such as HT Media, Deccan Chronicle and Zee among others. But what is eerie is the similarity between the print and TV numbers, which have generally been on different growth trajectories so far.
Soumendra Nath Lahiri, senior VP, Equities, at DSP Merrill Lynch, says that they have maximum midcap exposure to media and IT in Opportunities Fund. The company has increased exposure to Mastek and Deccan Chronicle, he adds.
The Kolkata club also roped in former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah as a member of its executive committee.
The markets have opened on positive note but failed to sustain gains
The last edition of the 14-year-old morninger, which had already stopped from Delhi and other centres earlier, will come out on Thursday from Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the broadsheet owned by Zee group's Subhash Chandra's Essel group said.
The entire amount is to be provided for four quarters.
'Ramani is not alone in her fight,' the journalists said in the joint statement undersigned by them.
Tejaswini Gowda, a former Congress leader in Karnataka who is now with the Bharatiya Janata Party, lambasted her old party, saying it rewarded women leaders in the party only if they danced to the tune of the male politicians.
According to the RTI reply, absconding diamantaire Choksi's company Gitanjali Gems tops the list of the defaulters with a whopping amount of Rs 5,492 crore. This is followed by REI Agro with Rs 4,314 crore and Winsome Diamonds with Rs 4,076 crore. Rotomac Global Private Limited has funded advances of Rs 2,850 crore which have been technically written off and Kudos Chemie Ltd with Rs 2,326 crore, Ruchi Soya Industries Limited, now owned by Ramdev's Patanjali, with Rs 2,212 crore and Zoom Developers Pvt Ltd with Rs 2,012 crore being the other companies to default on the payment. Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines figures in the list at number 9, with outstanding of Rs 1943 crore which have been technically written off by the banks.
In a princely offering, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday donated gold ornaments worth around Rs 5 crore to the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara in Tirumala for fulfilling the vows he had made for realisation of separate Telangana.
Bhavani Balan's kids are inconsolable. Their Christmas vacation had just been blown to smithereens by someone blinded by radical venom.
A list of prominent journalists who also became successful politicians.
Public sector banks are inefficient, poorly governed and beset by largescale corruption.
Why did Kamal Haasan name the leaders he did?
Does Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize help India reduce extreme poverty, asks Rajeev Srinivasan.
Over 25,600 cases of banking fraud reported up to December 21, 2017, says Minister RS Prasad.
The new allegations take the total number of his accusers to 12.
BSE Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Consumer Durable, TECk, Power and Metal indices declined between 0.5-1%.
Modi and Shah can't afford to lose any of the 24 per cent Dalit vote of 2014, says Shekhar Gupta.
Anjana Reddy explores the market for home-grown Indian celebrity fashion brands at affordable prices.
The crisis in Indian banking has now reached a point where the NPAs of many public-sector banks are higher than their net worth
Once P V Arun from Manimala in Kerala was headline material for being recruited by the NASA. Today, he is in the news for spreading that lie
A vigilance department insider-turned-online journalist, busy taking on the establishment, comes to fore with the 2G tapes
Srei Infrastructure's vice-chairman -- and former Assocham president -- Sunil Kanoria discusses the Kanoria businesses and his impression of the Modi government with Ishita Ayan Dutt and Namrata Acharya.
Despite all the controversies, the IPL's brand value hasn't diminished. Instead, says Harish Kotian/Rediff.com, the IPL made the BCCI richer by over Rs 3 billion!
'There is too much news about film stars. There is too much fawning over wealth and power. There is a grey area between seriousness and triviality in news reporting now.' 'Mumbai is still a magnet. All the politicians have property in Mumbai. Politicians are the biggest racketeers here.' Olga Tellis, the legendary reporter who completed 50 years in journalism, tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com about her life and experiences.
In all the noise surrounding the Dok La confrontation, Claude Arpi focuses on a crucial issue that has hardly been covered -- the construction of roads for the armed forces and the local population to reach the most remote border posts.
Maharashtra politics is at crossroads. Anything can happen in this dynamic situation. Uddhav will have to prove he is a worthy inheritor of his father's legacy and keep his cadre and leaders in the party stable. Fadnavis will have to prove that manoeuvrings on floor of the house was an inevitable political necessity to change the destiny of Maharashtra eventually. Modi and Shah will have to show that they can and will are resist use of 'the system' in the pursuit of power. Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com analyses the situation.
To improve communication skills, you need to interact with as many people as possible, says Kamini Taneja, Senior Training Consultant at the British Council.
India's five leading wilful defaulters are Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd and associate Forever Precious Jewellery & Diamonds, Zoom Developers, Kingfisher Airlines, Beta Naphthol and Raza Textiles
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