When the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 1999, its campaign managers claimed they did not know much about how to use money. Thus, the Election Commission would not be able to question their campaign expenses. "We learnt most of our tricks from the Congress leaders," said late party leader Pramod Mahajan who was made election in charge by the party for highlighting the achievements of Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and the campaign was named as India Shining.
Andy Murray has lost the world number two spot to Roger Federer in the latest ATP rankings released on Monday, after his defeat to Novak Djokovic in the Madrid Masters final.
Fem Care is a good addition to the portfolio because Dabur didn't have a presence in the skin care space. What Fem Care brings to the table is a strong product portfolio -- comprising bleaches, hair removing creams and liquid soaps -- which is complementary to Dabur's Gulabari skin-care range.
A group of 11 Bangladeshis had tried to cross over to Pakistan via Akhnoor sector on the night of April 18.
Reigning champions Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams have been named top seeds for the Australian Open starting on Monday.
With most private television channels deserting it, DD Direct Plus, the direct-to-home (DTH) company from Prasar Bharati, has become a true pubcaster carrying 34 channels of which 31 are from Doordarshan.These 31 DD-channels include 19 television channels and 12 All India Radio channels. The private channels that were recently disconnected from DD Direct Plus include Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, BBC World, Star Utsav and Akash Bangla, sources said.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has hailed Mumbai police for acting swiftly in nabbing the culprit who sent him a death threat on his mobile.
Total income for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, stood at Rs 31,204.5 crore, up by 22.1 per cent from Rs 25,549.7 crore for the quarter ended on March 31, 2018,
The UPA government is likely to close this financial year with around a billion dollars (around Rs 4,100 crore) as receipts from divestment of minority shareholdings in four public sector undertakings.
After the Bharti Infratel deal, India could see more group approach in PE investing.
FIIs have turned out to be the biggest buyers of Reliance Power's IPO. Reliance Power's FII are holding over ten-times of mutual funds.
Central Board of Direct Taxes officials claim the figure has surpassed indirect taxes for the first time.
In addition, it is banking on Rs 20 billion of additional inflows from group company DLF Assets. The move follows 33 per cent growth in DLF's gross debt to Rs 163.58 billion at the end of March 2009 from Rs 122.77 billion a year ago. In addition, DLF's revenues fell 28 per cent to Rs 105.41 billion as home buyers deferred purchases and it offered discounts to lure buyers. As a result, its revenues were hit to the tune of Rs 6.88 billion.
Gold demand fell by 8 per cent to 45 tonnes on this year's Akshaya Tritiya, an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar for new purchase of long-term assets, due to a rise in prices, compared with 48.9 tonnes in a year-ago period, the World Gold Council said.
The group had a net profit of Rs 68.58 crore (Rs 685.8 million) for the year ended March 31, 2008, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. The consolidated income increased to Rs 418.96 crore (Rs 4.18 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2009, up 14.06 per cent from Rs 367.31 crore (Rs 3.67 billion) in the year-ago period.
In January 2006, Reliance Industries Ltd had paid Rs 1.5 lakh a square metre for an international convention-and-exhibition centre covering 75,000 square metres in the same locality.
Of the total investment announcements, tracked by an Assocham Eco Pulse study during August and September this year, the petroleum sector attracted Rs 53,300 crore (Rs 533 billion) with Indian Oil Corporation and the Reliance Group planning to pump in Rs 43,500 crore (Rs 435 billion) and Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion) respectively.
UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya, who inherited an empire of diverse businesses at age 27, is now trying hard to show that he can be a pragmatic king of bad times, too.That explains Mallya's move to hawk a part of his family silver at a time when the combined debt of his six listed companies has touched a whopping Rs 14,231 crore, as on December 2008. The debt is now more than the group's market cap.
The panel headed by Justice M S Liberhan was constituted on December 16, 1992, by an order of the Home Ministry and was expected to submit its report within three months. It has already taken over 15 years and incurred an expenditure of more than Rs seven crore so far.
A US resident has advertised to sell land in that country to Indians here. In the process, the seller may have started a trend of US owners turning to overseas buyers as local demand for housing dries up following the serial bankruptcies from the sub-prime mortgage, or high-risk home loan, crisis.
The Centre will set up 25 integrated textile parks in the country, creating five lakh jobs by the end of next year, Union Minister of State for Textiles E V K S Elangovan said on Friday.
Feroz Abbas Khan on his directorial debut, Gandhi My Father
The new decree provides for the eventuality of the king and the crown prince becoming ill or dying at the same time. \n\nThis precautionary measure is due to the fact that all the sons of the founder of the Saudi state King Abdulaziz Al Saud are old.
The 10-year-old girls conjoined at the head share a blood drainage vessel in the brain - a concern for doctors.
The finance ministry on Saturday denied that the government will not be able to pay salary to its employees for February 2005.
On the men's side, the fields have already been divided into two ATP 250 tournaments.
The owner of Bulgarian premier league soccer club Lokomotiv Plovdiv was killed after they beat OFK Belgrade in the UEFA Cup second qualification round.
There is an overall improvement in the flood situation in various parts of the country.
It is a huge reduction for the telecom players as the existing license fee to enter the National Long Distance segment is Rs 100 crore and for International Long Distance is Rs 25 crore.
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