The 20 contenders for the title, short-listed by the BusinessWeek magazine, also included Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, media baron Rupert Murdoch and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Having plumped for electoral politics, Team Anna may soon face the acid test on whether to contest the upcoming assembly elections in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.
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The move apparently points that rebellion is brewing in the Congress with office bearers of all wings of the party in Arki block resigning in support of Thakur.
Senior leader Shanta Kumar will work at the Central level, the party's Parliamentary board has decided.
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The Himachal Congress on Wednesday said party chief Sonia Gandhi will only decide the name of the chief ministerial candidate.
The Election Commission took this decision in view of the inclement weather conditions in these areas.
The Commission said complaints have been received regarding hoardings extolling the achievements of the state government and displaying comparative statistics with that of the previous governments.
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Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Prem Kumar Dhumal on Tuesday won Hamirpur Lok Sabha by-election defeating Congress candidate Ram Lal Thakur by over 80,000 votes.
The bus, carrying about 40 people, was going to Janjehli from Mandi when the accident occurred at around 6 pm in Gohar sub-division.
Rahul Gandhi took to Instagram to share the moment, along with a message about team work. "Good teamwork means all hands to the deck! We had a problem with our helicopter in Una, HP today, that working together we quickly fixed. Nothing serious, thankfully," he wrote with a picture of him lying on the ground and looking at the helicopter with full concentration.
In the wake of the National Investigation Agency issuing a fresh alert to the Himachal Pradesh Police about a possible strike on the Buddhist people and their places of worship in the state, the investigation agency has been probing a couple of youth from Assam in connection with the Bodh Gaya attack.
The new iMac, two iPads and iPhone 12 and 12 Mini will be open for ordering starting April 30, just like in the US, the UK, China and Japan.
Several areas were cut off on Monday and vehicular traffic came to a halt as frsh snowfall in Shimla, Kinnaur, Chamba and some other areas threw normal life out of gear.
Thirteen people were killed and 39 injured, five of them seriously, when their bus plunged into a gorge in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh early on Tuesday, Deputy Commissioner Chamel Singh said.
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A week after the death of a medical student allegedly due to ragging, the Himachal Pradesh government says it is preparing to bring in a new ordinance to check the menace since the one issued in 1992 was neither revalidated nor replaced by a legislative enactment.
In a move that may ruffle feathers, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Himachal Pradesh has decided to remove a chapter on noted painter M F Hussain from an NCERT book, claiming his work has "nothing to inspire students".
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Global auto giant Ford will soon set up a Rs 594 crore (Rs 5.94 billion) tourist resort near Manali in Himachal Pradesh, a project that is widely expected to boost tourism in the state.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister P K Dhumal on Saturday said his government cannot give any "clean chit" to Karmapa Ugyen Trinely Dorji, under ED scanner in a foreign currency haul case, as central agencies are probing the matter.
France will extend its expertise to modernise Ambala and Ludhiana stations.
Home Minister P Chidamabaram on Wednesday said the exact motive of the eight Taiwanese men, who had been arrested in Himachal Pradesh, was yet to be ascertained. "It is too early to give any official version. It is too early to come to a conclusion. Reports are yet to come, wait till tomorrow morning. Don't rush to any judgments till tomorrow," Chidamabaram told reporters.
Hewlett-Packard Co sued its former chief executive Mark Hurd to block him from joining rival Oracle Corp as a senior executive, alleging the hiring breaches his exit agreement and will lead to a transfer of technology giant's trade secrets to a competitor.
The eagerness to own a compact fast car has gone up and manufacturers have their hands full keeping pace with these demands.
1,250 square km area is under pine forest cover and ground fires occurred in an area of 5000 hectares or 5 sq km.
Chinese PC maker Lenovo is preparing the ground to occupy the top position in the enterprise PC market in India.
All the casualties were reported from Uttar Pradesh where a dust storm claimed nine lives in Jaunpur district, four in Ballia and one each in Ghazipur and Varanasi.
Hewlett-Packard has targeted 14,500 jobs cuts worldwide or about 10 per cent of its regular full-time staff, including an unspecified number from its Houston campus, over the next 18 months. \n
HP Labs research says cow manure and heat output of data centres can help create an economically and environmentally sustainable operation.
Observing that the petitioner should not be harassed in the name of investigation, the Himachal Pradesh High Court on Friday issued notices to the state government, Central Bureau of Investigation and state police chief on a man's plea for a probe by the central agency into his daughter's suicide last month.
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State-owned National Thermal Power Corporation said on Tuesday that it received 13 bids, including 11 from overseas companies, for constructing the main dam for its 800 MW hydropower project.
Hardik Pandya spent the New Year eve with his rumoured girlfriend Natasa Stankovic
However, state Congress chief Vidya Stokes' name figures in the list of ministers proposed to the party high command, he said.
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