Brushing aside the opposition from Anil Nanda, the Escorts board on Wednesday decided to go ahead with mortgaging of shares of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre to raise Rs 100 crore.
The victim has been diagnosed with cancer. She was also forced to consume abortion pills by the perpetrators.
Escorts group's decision to sell 17.1 per cent equity in its heart institute has been put on the backburner, after vice chairman Anil Nanda opposed the commercialisation of this charitable institution
Indigo Marina, which will be launched on Wednesday, is the fifth model developed in-house by the company
He was hospitalized two days ago after fainting on the sets of his film when a stunt scene went horribly wrong.
The Centre is also considering proposals sent by state governments to declare many other areas no-flying zones.
G P Srivatsava has taken over as the chairman and managing director of the Electronics Corporation of India Limited, the pioneer of indigenous electronic revolution in the country.
Five-year-old Guo is one of the three giant pandas living in the zoo in the east Chinese metropolis.
Work on a 2,800 MW nuclear power plant in Haryana will be kickstarted on January 13 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lays the foundation stone for it. The plant in Fatehabad district will have four units, each of 700 MWs, at the cost of Rs 22,000 crore.
'My immediate concern is restoring prestige and decorum of Rajya Sabha...'
Escorts' vice-chairman Anil Nanda virtually rejected the peace offer by his elder brother Rajan to resolve the controversy surrounding the sale of Escorts Heart Institute equity, saying smoking a peace pipe would not make the deal legal.
The company has a network of 4,000 distributors, 10,000 stores and 100 mega marts.
A survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press said 84 per cent of Indians have an unfavourable opinion of Pakistan.
With cruise missile and air strikes being India's most likely response to a hypothetical Pakistani terrorist outrage in the future, retaliation from the Pakistan air force is inevitable. That is where the S-400 will come into play, says Ajai Shukla.
'This is the beginning of a big campaign which may last a hundred years of trying to understand the human body in detail.'
Modi praised the contribution of nuclear scientists in the successful implementation of India's three-stage nuclear programme.
The Madras high court on Friday ordered a second autopsy on the body of Dalit youth E Ilavarasan, by doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Around 12 per cent of the drugs sold in the open market across the country are "sub-standard" and over 0.5 per cent are "spurious," a senior official of Union health ministry said in Lucknow.
The entire area has been cordoned off and National Disaster Management Authority has also been informed about the incident.
Sena claimed that a bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is unnecessary when the Indian Railways and the Mumbai local trains are already suffering.
He said India has a rich tradition and a long history of both discovery and use of science and technology.
From former rivals Narayanaswami Srinivasan and Sharad Pawar to current Board of Control for Cricket in India heavyweights, India's cricket fraternity bid an emotional farewell to Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was cremated with full state honours and a gun salute, on Monday.
The party's research centre, overseen by chief Sonia Gandhi, provides members with solid facts that can be used to target the Centre.
India on Friday night successfully conducted maiden night test of its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with strike range of 700 km from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army.
In Asia-Pacific's public eye, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is below Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japan's Shinzo Abe, according a survey
A three-member team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday performed the second autopsy on the body of Dalit youth E Ilavarasan, whose death is shrouded in mystery.
Chinese observers believe the Sino-US relationship will be impacted by issues in North Korea, Japan, India, Ukraine and Iran and that conflicts with these 'third parties' will without exception ultimately become conflicts between China and the US, points out former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
A 32-year-old marketing executive was killed by a speeding Mercedes driven by a man in a suspected inebriated state in the posh Civil Lines area of north Delhi, police said on Tuesday.
The navy, police, the anti-terror squad and the army are involved in a massive search operation. Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore reports
China is training Buddhist monks and nuns in Tibet to carry out anti-espionage operations along the remote Sino-Indian border.
Eman Ahmed, who weighs around 500 kg and is the world's heaviest woman, has been under observation at the Saifee Hospital since her arrival in Mumbai on Saturday and has now been put on high-protein liquid diet, doctors said.
At the Indian Cancer Congress held in New Delhi on November 20-24, health-care professionals from the United States launched the Open Educational Resources in Cancer for Doctors and Nurses in India, a Web portal maintained by the California State University.
In a marathon 16-hour-long surgery, doctors at the Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre successfully conducted India's first hand transplant on Tuesday.
After some Governors, it was the turn of Vice-Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority M Shashidhar Reddy and five of its members to resign after the new government asked them to quit their posts.
Manufacturing of consumer goods, like food and liquor continued to improve in September.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday arrived in Ulan Bator on his historic visit to Mongolia to hold talks with the country's leadership to bolster economic and trade cooperation, including in transport, highways and energy sectors.
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