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The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted bail to B Rama Raju, former managing director and brother of B Ramalinga Raju (the disgraced founder of Satyam Computer), and three others accused in the over Rs 7,600-crore (Rs 76 billion) Satyam scam.
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions. Siva Sankar pays tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam, the legendary singer who passed into the ages on Friday.
Charges against Raju and others include criminal conspiracy and forgery.
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Dismissing the notion that Mauritius is a tax haven, the island nation's Vice Prime Minister Ramakrishna Sithanen on Tuesday said he has not received any complaints from India about routing investments via his country to evade taxes.
The accused has been lodged in Chanchalguda central jail.
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Tainted chairman of Satyam Computers B Ramalinga Raju and five others were chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday for allegedly filing false income tax returns resulting in a loss of Rs 126.57 crore (Rs 1.26 billion) to the company and shareholders.
Now the film, the maiden venture of Ram Mohan, a management graduate-turned-movie producer, has become an entrepreneurship case study for the Indian School of Business.
Ramalinga Raju, his brother and Satyam's former managing director Rama Raju, ex-CFO V Srinivas, former partners of PricewaterhouseCoopers S Gopalakrishnan and T Srinivas along with Satyam Computer Services former employees G Ramakrishna, D Venkatapathi Raju and Ch Srisailam -- who are lodged at Chanchalguda Jail in Hyderabad were brought to the court, after their remand ended on Wednesday.
With the developed world seeing a fragile recovery from the recession, projected to be a modest 1-2 per cent in the second half of 2009-10, a further financial crisis was not completely ruled out, said C Rangarajan, chairman of the Economic Advisory Council. He said the slow recovery of the developed countries had a negative impact on external demand for both manufactured goods and services from India.
Today, his company Karuturi Global Ltd has 3,000 sq km of agricultural land in Ethiopia (5 times the size of Mumbai) and 239 hectares of land for rose cultivation.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the Satyam financial fraud, arrested three employees including a top executive of the IT firm on Sunday, said CBI deputy-inspector general V V Lakshmi Narayana.
Legendary Telugu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao passed away at Care Hospital in Hyderabad early on Wednesday at around 2 am. He was 91, and was under going cancer treatment.
Hundreds of passengers on board a Delhi Metro had a harrowing experience on Sunday when they got stuck inside for over an hour when the train, part of which was reportedly inside a tunnel, came to a halt between two stations due to power failure.
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Sebi has also allowed Rama Raju and others, including Vadlamani Srinivas and G Ramakrishna, to inspect the documents available with the regulator on October 14 and has fixed the date for personal hearing on November 7. The other noticees in the matter include Ramalinga Raju and V S Prabhakara Gupta.
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Diganth talks about his new film House Full on the eve of its release.
A local court in Hyderabad on Thursday extended the police custody of disgraced former chairman of Satyam Computer B Ramalinga Raju by one more day. The 6th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ramakrishna also extended the police custody of former chief financial officer Vadlamani Srinivas by one more day.
The 6th Metropolitan Magistrate M Ramakrishna passing the orders on a petition of the Crime Branch-CID of Andhra Pradesh Police on Saturday remanded them to the CID's custody for four days, starting from Sunday.
"The BJP is totally opposed to the extension of President's Rule in Karnataka, based on specious procedural grounds of the commission not being in a position to complete the procedural work. We earnestly hope the commission will rise to the occasion and find administrative solutions for resolving this problem," BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said.
The bail petitions of Venkatpati Raju and Srisailam, arrested in connection with the multi-crore rupee Satyam fraud case, were filed in a local court in Hyderabad on Monday.
Earlier, the Sebi had interrogated and recorded the statement of Raju and his brother and Rama Raju for three days from February 4 in Chanchalguda Jail. In a petition filed in the court of 6th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, the I-T department sought three days time to examine and record the statement of Raju.
In the backdrop of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's 'I'm a Hindu nationalist' remark, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of dividing Hindus and Muslims.
To prevent rise in air pollution levels, oil marketing companies and thermal power units were planning to procure stubble from farmers to make bioethanol and promote the central government's 'Agricultural Mechanization' for crop residue management. But both have seen minimal success.
"The condition of rape survivor is improving. She is following command and opened eyes and understanding things. The process of removing the ventilator has started but she has to be given medicines to maintain her blood pressure," said Trauma Centre in-charge Dr Sandeep Tiwari.
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Mamatha Nichani speaks about her political ambitions, her thoughts on the political scenario and her decision to join the Congress, a party which her father, Ramakrishna Hegde, had opposed all his life.
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Arundhati offers a visual canvas of horror, a theme of reincarnation, some good SFX, art work, cinematography and acting. Anushka, Sonu Sood and Sayaji Shinde have elevated the film to greater heights.
The pacts signed after Modi-Hasina talks provided for deeper cooperation between the two countries in areas of water resources, youth affairs, culture, education and coastal surveillance.
But for the entertaining second half, Thamaashegaagi can be passed off as yet another also-ran film.
Even as the Hindi film Jodhaa Akbar evoked some protests across the nation, an Urdu/Hindi movie on Islam -- Al Risalah -- has raised the hackles of Muslims in Hyderabad.
'The TMC did not bother telling me, a sitting MLA for 20 years, why I was not being given a ticket.'
The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, invites application for admission to its advanced nine month course in International Understanding for Human Unity.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Wednesday asserted his government's commitment to ushering in all round development of the state as dreamt by the great founders of 'the first linguistic state in the country'.
Strictly for the masses, Dubai Seenu is a heady concoction of comedy and action served by Srinu Vaitla- Ravi Teja combo.
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