The country's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India, on Thursday said that "Tata Nano" may have a marginal impact on the sales of its entry level small car Maruti 800 but ruled out cutting its price.
Anjuli Bhargava reports on how the Aam Aadmi Party is making quality education more inclusive and at no cost to parents.
'If he was unwell in May, he gave no indication of it at all. Tom was his usual cheerful, helpful, kind and generous self.'
Former US attorney-general Ramsay Clark slammed the West Bengal government for 'perpetrating atrocities' on the people of Nandigram as part of a globalisation drive to set up industries there.
Terming Satyam's shocking disclosure of about the Rs 8,000-crore (Rs 80 billion) financial fraud as a 'one off case', corporate leaders today expressed confidence and said it will not damage the image of India Inc.
The committee, headed by Maruti Udyog CEO R C Bhargava, has already visited some of the IIMs and has completed its deliberations on the matter pertaining to administration and excellence of the institutes. The IIMs have already hiked their fees from this year. IIM-Ahmedabad had announced steepest increase of 175 per cent in the fees of its first year post-graduate programme from Rs 200,000 to Rs 5,50,000. Similarly other IIMs have increased their fees.
As the Indian Army reported its first case of the infection with a 34-year-old soldier testing positive in Leh, the Army said it has taken a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus among the forces such as checking flu symptoms among soldiers on their return from leave and cancelling non-essential travel, conferences and recruitment drives.
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the government on the issue of intolerance telling it not to learn the "wrong lessons" from the Pakistan.
I'The entire display is a lesson in how to turn a mountain of a collection into a molehill, notes Anjuli Bhargava after a visit to the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur.
Reliance Capital AMC gets nod to operate in Malaysia Mumbai, Nov 20 (PTI) Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Capital Asset Management company has been given approval to commence operations in Malaysia, a top official of the Securities Commission, Malaysia, said today.
We need to bring solid waste management into all school curricula in an organised and cohesive manner, suggests Anjuli Bhargava.
'With a less than comely bride and no dowry to speak of, the prospects of landing a good match look bleak, a grim, sinister and no-nonsense prospective father-in-law notwithstanding,' says Anjuli Bhargava.
In a rare order, the Securities Appellate Tribunal on Thursday asked the Securities and Exchange Board of India to bear the costs amounting to Rs 100,000 in a case involving Goldman Sachs. A division bench of Justice N K Sodhi, Arun Bhargava and Utpal Bhattacharya imposed the penalty on the capital market regulator and set aside the adjudication order of September 8, 2006.
The India Abroad Person of the Year Awards, held at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Friday June 12, honored 14 achievers in seven categories.
Zapak.com and Jump Games, the two gaming divisions of Reliance Entertainment, has signed on cricket ace Ishant Sharma to create and host an online game based around the cricketer while Jump Games would create a mobile game for him.The game allows the player to step into the cricketer's shoes and play as him where he bowls five overs to an opponent batsman. The game is set against the backdrop of a packed international cricket stadium, with the crowd cheering him on.
Mulls ways to improve the bank's earnings, cut bad loans and step up credit recovery efforts
ICICI Bank has quashed rumours of favouritism, nepotism and quid pro quo. The bank clarified that while Chanda Kochhar was on the credit committee, she was not the chairperson. Videocon Chairman Venugopal Dhoot said there was no impropriety in the deal.
A total of 27,920 people have been cured of the disease with 1,685 in the last 24 hours, taking the recovery rate to 34.06 per cent, the ministry said.
The Aditya Birla group's financial services firm, Birla Global, has seen some top level resignations.
The vice-chairman has sent his recommendations separately to the PM.
'If I look in a certain way, have an innocent face, I will only get offers for the girl-next-door roles. As an actor and creative person, you want to explore and experiment more but you don't get the opportunity. That gets frustrating at times.'
Neeraj Bhargava, CEO of Mumbai-based business process outsourcing (BPO firm) WNS Global Services, and his team have voluntarily decided to forfeit their bonuses if they are not successful in getting the attrition rates below 30 per cent. This is probably the first such move of its kind in the industry in which attrition has become a critical issue. WNS has over 15,000 employees, and its current attrition rate stands at 43 per cent.
Khattar's place will be taken by Shinzo Nakanishi, who is currently the chairman of MSIL. R C Bhargava, who is a director, has been named the new chairman.
According to Airbus sources close to the development, "Airbus has already made its presentation to Air India and also to the ministry. Whenever they are ready and instruct us to put in the bid, we will do so." The order could be around $3 billion, based on the list price of the aircraft. But, the negotiated price may vary.
Air India is planning to add more flights connecting India and US. Immediate plans include non-stop flight from Bangalore to San Francisco.
'We must not compromise with the standard, the quality. We don't need to be the first to launch a drug but what we need is a Made in India vaccine that the entire world can rely on'
Italy team named software design champions; torch passes to Korea for Imagine Cup 2007.
Some thumb rules from entrepreneurs to help you set up and get going.
Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them every where... in politics, in research, in the movies and even on YouTube, says Ignatius Chithelen.Indian Americans are not just shining in the fields of technology, education and management. You can now spot them every where... in politics, in research, in the movies and even on YouTube, says Ignatius Chithelen.
'It was incredibly heart-wrenching to see people waiting to be evacuated -- children, parents and grandparents. Many families did not get to leave together. An order of priority was drawn up, and the first ones to be evacuated were pregnant women, single and/or older women and dialysis patients. Most were happy to be on the plane but also very distressed to have left behind family and friends.'
The experts agreed that the lockdown has helped in slowing down spread of the virus but insisted that the situation has not reached a plateau and that there was an urgent need to upgrade healthcare facilities to deal with the crisis.
The revised rates will come into effect from April 16.
Component makers don't see any recovery yet, but manufacturers believe the end of poor sales is nearing its end.
Industrialists affirm their belief that the adverse effects of demonetisation and the goods and services tax are finally over.
Police will conduct forensic examination of the thumb impressions of Sachin Pahari, the main suspect in the Meher Bhargava murder case, obtained in the prisons where he had been lodged earlier.
Air-India on Tuesday derecognised the Indian Pilots Guild with immediate effect.
Punjab Governor S F Rodrigues administered the oath of office and secrecy to Badal at a ceremony held at PCA stadium in Mohali.
After tariffs war, GSM operators are now experimenting with the pricing of value-added services such as downloads of mobile games in 2007.
Shalini Bhargava shares some simple asanas.
