Former West Bengal Director General of Police Dinesh Bajpai will take on the veteran cricket administrator in the Cricket Association of Bengal's election for president.
The bitter feud in the Rajasthan Cricket Association has prompted the Board of Control for Cricket in India to shift the opening One-Day International in the best-of-seven series between India and Australia, on October 25, from Jaipur to Vadodara.
The government has set a target of bringing the fiscal deficit down to 5 per cent of the GDP by 2011, and 4 per cent of the GDP by 2012.
The decision to bid for the Games, with Delhi as host city, was taken at the Executive Council and Annual General Meeting of the IOA.
Dismissing all suggestions that only a Parsi with a Tata name would succeed him, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata on Monday said that the new incumbent would neither be a pro-Parsi nor an anti-Parsi, but the 'right person'.
State-run utility NTPC plans to more than double its power generation capacity by 2017 from the current 30,000 MW, diversifying further into renewable and nuclear energy.
Due to the over-heating of the valuations of companies in India, private equity player Electra Partners is giving greater emphasis to investments in South East Asia.
Board of Control Cricket in India president Shashank Manohar was on Wednesday authorised to resolve the IMG issue and report back to the board at its Annual General Meeting on September 24.
The tobaccos-to-hospitality major ITC has earmarked an whopping Rs 23,000-crore (Rs 230 billion) investment over the next seven to ten years for its FMCG, paper and hospitality businesses.
It is confidential for Bajaj, Nissan and Renault and so, I will not speak much about it." The total cost of this project is Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion).
After a successful career as a player, Matthew Hayden is now gearing up to become an administrator and could replace Allan Border in Cricket Australia's Board.
When Indian Hotels Chairman Ratan Tata told shareholders at the annual general meeting earlier this week that the hotel chain, which operates the Taj group, continues to be impacted by the slowdown, he was merely echoing what P R S Oberoi, his counterpart at the East India Hotels (EIH), had said recently.
Puri has been at the helm of the bank since its inception in 1994.
Shareholders took the FMCG major to task on issues ranging from the mercury pollution in the pristine environs of Kodaikanal in Tamilnadu to changing the name to Hindustan Unilever Limited.
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president AC Muthiah bit the dust in the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association elections as Board treasurer N Srinivasan and his team made a clean sweep, winning all the posts. Srinivasan and Kasi Viswanathan were re-elected as the president and secretary respectively of the Association in its 78th Annual General Meeting in Chennai.
In 2019, an all-party meeting was held in Delhi and it was attended by 19 political parties to discuss critical reforms in governance. One of the subjects of the discussions was simultaneous elections
West Bengal government would continue to invite investments despite the controversy over acquisition of agricultural land for setting up industrial units, the state's industry minister Nirupam Sen said on Tuesday.
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) Chairman Deepak Parekh on Tuesday said that interest rates may rise owing to higher inflation, but lending rates are unlikely to change in the next one month.
Indian conglomerate Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata has said that Tata Motors will have an electric car in the market by September this year.
The partners have, thus, solved the tricky issue of pricing, which has been widely speculated as the reason for the delay in the project announced in 2008.
Recently, the company had forayed into the segment of manufacturing accessories for ladies like handbags. At present, shoes for defence personnel were mainly procured from the unorganised sector.
The well-known cricket statistician was re-elected for a second three-year term.
Rakesh Mohan, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, said on Monday that it was only after the central bank took a slew of steps that the decline in the economy was arrested and that inflation is not a concern anymore.
While Paytm (One97 Communications) is not completely past regulatory hurdles, its share price has gained in the last month or two. The Paytm handle migration is complete along with FDI clearance necessary for the Payment Aggregator (PA) license. UPI consumer data indicates stable market share, and expansion in partner networks in financial distribution. All this implies Paytm could be set to meet guidance of turning Adjusted Ebitda breakeven by Q4FY25 (ex of UPI-incentives).
The unfinished AGM will be held in Kolkata to enable newly-elected office-bearers take over.
Briefing reporters, Nadda said his party has proposed that if holding the three-tier polls together was not possible immediately, then Lok Sabha and assembly elections can be held together first.
Mukherjee, 60, responsible for Asia, Africa, the CIS, mining, stainless and pipes and tubes, will retire on May 13, the date of the company's annual general meeting, a company release said. The board of directors will propose to the AGM of shareholders that he will be appointed as a non-executive member of the Company's Board of Directors effective from that date.
"I cannot tell Ratan Tata to go back", the West Bengal chief minister said while speaking at the annual general meeting of Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Kolkata.
Ex-head of BPL Mobile and currently a Rajya Sabha MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be the new head of Ficci.
India and China on Wednesday held 'constructive' and 'forward-looking' diplomatic talks to resolve the over four-year border standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh but there was clear no indication of any breakthrough.
The meeting, slated for October 26, will not be held as the Supreme Court will hear the BCCI's appeal against the Madras HC order.
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) representing 70 million traders has written to Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, drawing his attention to the alleged violations of laws and regulations by quick commerce (qcom) companies.
The IHF's senior vice-president pleaded that K P S Gill and K Jothikumaran be disallowed from participating in the elections.
After his inspirational showing in India's AFC Challenge Cup triumph fetched him the most valuable player award in the tournament, it came as no surprise when the All India Football Federation named Baichung Bhutia the country's player of the year at their Annual General Meeting in Delhi on Tuesday. The India and Mohun Bagan skipper, who first won the award in 1995, is the only player after I M Vijayan to win it twice.
"The government has imposed a lot of regulations, and is not permitting major technological upgrade," Tata said.
Chetram Singh will be unable to hold any ICC post because he is a bookie.
India's tennis ace Leander Paes has been elected as one of the seven vice-presidents of Bengal Tennis Association (BTA). The Kolkata ace, who now lives in Mumbai, was not present at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday but has accepted the new role, which was offered to him sometime back.
The RIL board had last month approved 1:1 issuance of bonus shares after a 12-year hiatus. The last time RIL announced a bonus issue was in October 1997.
