At present, the rules do not allow the government to shed stake in the four public sector general insurance companies - New India Assurance, United India Insurance, National Insurance and Oriental Insurance.
The AAP has no money; no big business houses to provide unlimited funds. Its posters and slogans will not find space on television and in newspapers; it will also have to face the prejudice in a sections of press too. But it has thousands of volunteers and their will to rewrite Indian politics, say Ashutosh.
IPL is a metaphor for a new India - crass, brash and razzmatazz - but it is in big trouble.
Back from incarceration, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday night delivered a fiery speech peppered with humour at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus to target the Narendra Modi dispensation and the Sangh Parivar.
Congratulating Narendra Modi on becoming the Prime Minister, India Inc on Monday said it is looking forward to an era of renewed trust and expressed confidence that the nation will leapfrog into a higher orbit of growth creating more jobs, income and social stability.
The global success of people of Indian origin gave hope and showed the way to a new India.
Good performance of ICICI Lombard, New India, Oriental Insurance and Bajaj Allianz pushed the general insurance industry growth to 16 per cent in April-February of 2005-06.
What do we need to do to ensure that a woman's celebratory "cheers" do not become someone else's tears -- a few hours later.
Like Nehru, Modi is loathe to touch the public sector. His policy towards Israel leans towards 'non-alignment'. You can find other similarities: frequent public speeches, personalised leadership, total control over foreign and strategic policies, even stylised dressing, says Shekhar Gupta.
According to RBI data, it had 57 employees in India at the end of March 2012.
A personal tribute to a guru, a great economist and a nation-builder
As Indians boast about their rising GDP, seniors are increasingly feeling left out of the picture. The irony is while the new India (and its markets) are obsessed with its youth, old India is growing rapidly. Over 8 crore are over 60 in India today. By 2050 a quarter of the population will over 60. "The biggest increase has been in the category of 80 plus," says Matthew Cherian.
Today's India is vastly different from the one most of us grew up in. There is a new India that is rising, a young India that is yearning to join the international ranks of the brightest and best.
Life Insurance Corporation plans to forge a joint venture for foraying into Australia and New Zealand markets.
'India's pluralist character, vibrant democracy, assertive intelligentsia and all attendant principles/institutions are the best assurance to allay the misgivings of the minorities.'
Life Insurance Corporation of India, its foreign arm LIC International and the New India Assurance Co will join hands for setting up a joint venture company in Saudi Arabia to offer life and non-life insurance products to non resident Indians and oth
Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 302 films in 365 days on airplanes, on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Google, Hulu, DVDs and even on YouTube.
The former PM also hit out at the Modi government saying it was "harping" on corruption to divert people's attention.
Chairman Emeritus of the $100-billion Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, on Tuesday called for better co-operation and collaboration among sectors. He urged the government and industries to collaborate in a more proactive manner.
Some insurance companies offer zone-based pricing.
In the first part of her analysis of the results of Election 2009, Sheela Bhatt wrote about how the Congress party was recasting itself for a new India. In the second and concluding part of her column, she writes about Rahul Gandhi's drive to return the party to its democratic roots and what he means for the Congress's future.
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There was much demand for the visa centre in Wales to ensure speedier processing of applications. Earlier, applicants seeking visas here would need to travel to the Indian consulate in Birmingham or the High Commission in London. The centre has been set up following representations made to Mukherjee during his visit to Cardiff last year.
Hailing Mumbai as a symbol of new India's hope, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that terrorists wanted to destroy the dream of transforming Mumbai into a truly global city but they will never succeed.
The two-day media workshop of the Congress began on Monday with Rahul Gandhi emphasising on the need to tone up the party's communication strategy and to institutionalise a framework for it in all states ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Her book is less of a Hindutva-loving diatribe against the Dynasty than its detractors suggest, but it is still hard to agree with much of what she writes, says Vir Sanghvi on Tavleen Singh's latest book.
Aam Aadmi Party rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday stopped short of announcing the creation of a new political outfit even as they said they were starting a new "movement" while slamming the lack of scope for dialogue within the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.
Seeking Japanese investments to build a 'new India', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday in Tokyo that he has come to Japan on a mission: to consolidate the multifaceted India-Japan strategic relations.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has fined 10 insurance companies, including both the insurance arms of the Bajaj Auto Group, Reliance General, United India, Iffco-Tokio, New India Assurance and Shriram Life for non-compliance with various guidelines. The violations varied from opening branch offices without seeking the regulator's permission to violation of advertisement guidelines and non-fulfilment of social sector obligations.
The government, he said, has implemented 'bold reforms'.
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by New India Assurance to evict Nusli Wadia, chairman of the Rs 1,000-crore Bombay Dyeing Group, from his Malabar Hills flat in Mumbai, rented to him since 1972.
A lot more people should buy stocks, they should be guided far more by fundamentals and their expectation of returns should be far more modest
Scott Price is learnt to have conveyed to Sharma that Walmart remained committed to the India market.
A company can not even stop workers from sticking posters in the premises, said Justice J H Bhatia in his judgement last month.
Cashless settlement, the norm in health policies today, is often marred by delays, rejections and mistakes. You can help yourself by knowing the processes involved and what you need to do
'Modi is given a longer leash by his fans than any other leader of our time.' 'Will he be able to continue putting himself above the fray if other scandals continue to emerge in his term? No, the erosion will inevitably come, given the awful state of this country. But for now, he has managed to shine through a period that would have tarnished any other leader but him.'
David Warner said he might quit the Indian Premier League (IPL) to concentrate on Tests.
The film hits theatres tomorrow, July 25.
India needs to grow by a sustained 10 per cent if it is to increase its per capita income
Equations have changed in the new India. If the '60 and the '70s saw migration of people from South India to North India, it is the reverse right now. And without understanding this new dynamics, if the ruling party were to impose on the majority a language spoken by just 45 pc of the people, it is unlikely to be accepted without demur, says Shobha Warrier.
