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India's immediate priorities have been the safe return of the Indians still in Afghanistan, bringing back the Afghan nationals who stood by New Delhi, and ensuring that Afghan soil is not used for terrorism directed at India
In a major expansion into sportswear and lifestyle wear segment, the Kumar Mangalam Birla-led Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail has signed a long-term licensing agreement with Authentic Brand Group of New York, which has the marketing and branding rights of Reebok, to run the operations of the global sportswear, athletic and lifestyle major in the country and ASEAN markets. The new agreement between the largest domestic multi-brand fashion retailer and Authentic Brand is an extension of their existing relationship as ABFRL already markets and sells some ABG brands like Forever 21. The agreement follows the global transfer of ownership of the Reebok brand from Adidas to ABG, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.
"If I wasn't in Holland, I don't think I would have had that background that really helped shape my ideas."
India agreed to give up the Poonch salient as well as Uri. To the north India also proposed to give up land in the Gurez sector giving the entire Neelam/Kinshanganga valley to Pakistan. In return India sought control of the post dominating Kargil town, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, 43, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, MIT and US Naval Test Pilot School, is the only Indian-American in the list.
The Greater Washington Association of Physicians of Indian-Origin and the leading Maryland gurdwara -- Guru Nanak Foundation of America -- held their first food drive over the weekend serving more than 350 families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
'The fact that India is multilingual and the kids grow up already bilingual or trilingual so learning another language or learning other spelling patterns is not really that hard.'
The chairman of the JSW Group of companies, Sajjan Jindal, whose stake in the group is valued at $14.5 billion (Rs 1.1 trillion), is betting $4.5 billion of his personal fortune in the firm's bid for Ambuja Cements. According to bankers, Jindal's contribution will be a combination of share sale and debts raised by pledging the stake of the target entities with private equities. The JSW Group chairman has offered $7 billion for Ambuja Cements, including $2.5 billion of investments from private equities, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Indian-Americans have relatively more conservative views of policies in India while on issues affecting the US, the diaspora has a more liberal take, according to a survey of the political attitudes of the influential community in this country.
Three contenders for the women's singles title at the Australian Open.
Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) reported 6 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) consolidated net revenue growth in Q4FY24 to Rs 3,385 crore and this was impacted adversely by currency movement. The constant currency (CC) growth would have been 30 per cent Y-o-Y in Q4FY24. India business clocked 12 per cent Y-o-Y revenue growth (5 per cent of it organic) with volume growth of 15 per cent Y-o-Y (7 per cent organic).
Biden is best qualified to address the root cause of the polarisation in American politics before it turns into terminal malignancy, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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As Americans continued to oppose the bonuses in millions being doled out to executives of the AIG, which has received federal bailout package, American President Barack Obama said that the buck stops with him and rescuing countrymen from the crisis was his ultimate goal.
In a setback to Prudential Plc's efforts to bolster its Asia presence, American International Group today rejected the British insurer's reduced $30.38 billion takeover bid for AIG's Asian life insurance unit.
'India's emergence as a global voice and global point of focus comes more from her economy,' says Frank G Wisner.
'People had a perception that I may be angry as a person.' 'Or I'm older than I really am.' 'Or I can't speak in English because of the characters I've done at the beginning of my career.'
The external affairs minister also recalled how Pandit Nehru was hesitant in taking assistance from the United States following the 1962 war with China as he was unsure how it would be seen.
Even as it gasped for breath, American insurance giant AIG was lobbying the United States Congress hard to get the Indo-US civil nuclear energy deal cleared, reports ProPublica.org.
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"Contradicting the emerging narrative, Indian-Americans remain committed to the Democratic Party. Nearly three-quarters of registered Indian-American voters intend to support Joe Biden this Fall, compared to just 22 per cent for Donald Trump," it said.
Attributing to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said, 'federal prosecutors, after a two-year investigation, may soon decide not to charge executives for their role surrounding financial contracts that nearly brought down the company.'
All three agreed to have the proceedings heard in English and each of them nodded that they understood the charges of first-degree murder and conspiring to murder Nijjar, the report said.
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
The Tatas will have to either buy out the 26 per cent stake in its life insurance joint venture or rope in another partner if Prudential UK buys out the Asian life insurance business of American International Group (AIG).
The New-York based Goldman Sachs, one of the world's oldest and largest investment banking firms, plans to enter the buoyant mutual fund business in India.
Thanks to its indemnity cover, Citibank may not have to provide for the alleged multi-crore fraud by Shivraj Puri, the relationship manager at its Gurgaon branch.
Insurer American International Group will recover $45 million from its employees given as retention payments last year and return the amount to the government, a media report says.
Prominent international celebrities and activists on Wednesday joined American pop star Rihanna to extend support to the farmers' protests here and garner international attention on the protracted stir but their remarks were slammed by India as 'neither accurate nor responsible'.
Attributing to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said AIG is preparing to pay Kelly several million dollars in severance after she resigned over federal pay curbs.
Indian infrastructure group GMR on Wednesday agreed to buy half of US power producer InterGen for about $1.1bn from an investment firm backed by American International Group and Highstar Capital.
The insurer had received nearly $80 billion last year from the US government to tide over the financial turmoil.
A step away from nuclear weapons being used in conflicts, warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
'Chinese are going bang, bang, bang building 30-35 reactors.' 'We should announce a programme of 50 new reactors and show that we mean business on the ground and not just announcements.'
IT and BPO services provider MphasiS on Wednesday said it is set to acquire AIG Systems Solutions (AIGSS), part of the troubled insurance giant American International Group Inc, for an undisclosed amount.
The insurance giant American International Group has replaced Goldman as its main corporate adviser with Citigroup and Bank of America, says a media report.
AIG Rail Services Inc, a Chicago business that is part of AIG's financial-services division, was set up around five years ago and provides rail-car leases and equipment financing to shipping companies, railroads and others.
After extending billions of dollars to protect themselves from the economic turmoil, the US moved to arrest the trend of exorbitant pay among the nation's big entities like Citigroup, Bank of America and American International Group.
The company's recently hired chief executive Robert Benmosche threatened to quit last month reportedly amid frustrations over limitations on pay for top AIG executives.
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